Alys

He's just not that into me.

I learned a long time ago that romantic love is for other people. Men don't want happily ever after from geeky girls like me, especially now that I'm creeping into my mid-thirties.

Luckily, that's not what I have with Maddox and Onyx. My co-conspirators. My Wonderland Crew. My direct lifelines to the absurd—including competing in the annual radio station scavenger hunt, which seems custom made for music geeks like us.

This year, we're going all out. Holing up at Onyx's together so we can focus on the contest. Putting in late nights. Falling asleep in the same be... Adding a with benefits clause to our friendships.

Could I have love from either man?

When Maddox is forced to reexamine his world, and Onyx tells us he sees this as our last hunt together, that he's leaving, I realize I've fallen for the wrong men again.