." She exhaled loudly before going straight out, "like you're more than friends." "What do you mean? What more can we be?" Amy was truly at a loss; he... naiveté apparently getting the better of her. "Amy, you can't be that innocent, can you?" At the blank look on Amy's face, she decided to spell it out for her. "Lovers, Amy. We thought you guys were lovers." Amy nearly choked at the admission. "What?! Why in the world would you think that?" Julia resumed eating, "Well, I'm surprised you didn't. Judy, the psychologist, came running from her consultation room to be immediately blasted across the room when he pulled the trigger. She was dead before she hit the wall opposite, landing in a bloodied and crumpled pile on the floor."You ... come with me" he yelled, pointing the gun at my head, and indicating that I was to head into Judy's office where I could hear the screams of a woman.I moved, but evidently not quick enough because I got a push in the back using the stumpy barrel of the. If after I graduate college and I’m looking for romance and I meet someone as wonderful as you out there, I would go for it. It’s just the wrong time for us or at least for me.”Of course it was. It’s not you, it’s me and all that. What I did know was if we stayed friends for years then I would never have a chance with her romantically. I would have always be her platonic male friend. Even I wasn’t naïve to think suddenly she would discover Mr. Right had always been there waiting for her. "But the coma had everything to do with it. Will you listen to us?" Us?" I said. She was doing fine by herself. My life was already over. I was just waiting for the door to slam shut on my cell."You have to explain your part too," she said.Which is how we ended up skipping lunch.All that time to think had made Heather pretty good at it. I think that's why she decided on a course of action so quickly when we got caught. We could have just hung our heads and taken our licks, whatever form that.