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Logan: Got to go. See you tomorrow morning.

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River findsme staring at my open closet.

I look over my shoulder when I hear her behind me. I don’t know what to wear.

“What are you guys doing?”

“I have no idea.”

“How do you know what to wear?”

I continue to stare at my closet as if an outfit will jump out of it and say,pick me, pick me.

“He told me to wear something I love and something comfortable.”

“So, what will it be, pajamas or yoga pants?”

I smile. “Hmm, he’s seen me in both, so I thought I’d try something new.”

River walks around me into the small closet and comes out holding a blue peasant dress in one hand and skinny jeans and the blue sweater that’s an exact match to my eyes in the other.

“Go with the dress. Easier access. He can just slide his hands up your legs and get to home base—”

I take the dress from her and hang it back in the closet.

“He said to dress warm and suggested I wear a favorite pair of jeans and a sweater.”

She thrusts the jeans and sweater at me.

“Well?”

I grab them and put them in front of me, looking in the mirror.

“I know. I was trying to find something sexier, you know. I still can’t believe he’s asking me out. If this will be my one and only date with him, I want to at least look good for it.”

“Why would it be a one and only date?”

“Have you seen him? I know the first time, you were drunk, but the second time, you were in full possession of your faculties—”

“Awe, shucks. Thank you.” River grins at me.

“Correction, the second time, you were sober,” I say.

She play-punches me in the shoulder.

“Skye, any guy would be lucky to have you. You are kind, smart, beauti—”

I stop the compliment train before it derails into utopia territory.

“Guys like him? They don’t go after girls like me. Not when there are so many women available who are far more beautiful and sexier than me. This is a college town. They’re everywhere.”

And I still can’t believe he asked me, and not you.

“Why would he ask me out? He only had eyes for you. Plus, Law and Order is so not my thing,” River replies.

Ugh. I guess I said that out loud. I’m always very careful not to let River know about the many guys who passed me over for her. She’d be upset about it, and it’s not like she tries to get their attention. They can’t help it.