” “I’m a big girl, I can deal.” “Now Shonda,” Wade said, backing away from me in our tiny kitchen until he bumped against the fridge. I na...rowed my eyes as he raised his hand to rub the back of his neck. “You know you a jealous bitch – crazy jealous...” I turned back around and gave the stir-frying veggies a jiggle in the frying pan. “Aight. How do I know it’s not a trick?” he continued after a moment. “Fool. I’m gonna lose my husband, and my best friend, all at once?” I said. “I would miss her. As she was getting everything ready to put in the oven when the visitors arrived she meditated on the difference between those things she had heard about Dudley from Harry and what she had been told by Luna.She had never met Dudley, but there were irreconcilable differences between Harry and Luna's versions of his character. From the things Harry had said about his home life, the Dudley she was about to meet sounded very different from the kind of person Harry had described.Since Luna had. He made his choice and stood by her. There were probably a lot of girls like her who would have just accepted his devotion and love as the real prize and gone on from there, but that old money had been one of the main reasons behind all of this, as her mother had reminded her endlessly. So she’d listened to her mother and pulled the ejection handles. She knew full well what she’d done to him and the sight of a man like that with tears in his eyes, … A man like that should never have to beg with. Unbelievable.Things like this do not happen to me."I like you. I don't even know your name, but you make me feel safe and you like the things I like about me first. I can't believe you said my eyes first. Wait, what color are they?" Mostly green, with a band of gold around the green, with little flecks of red and blue. Just amazing." But you were mostly turned away from me!" Yeah, but for a few minutes we were standing next to the movie posters and I was looking at you in the glass reflection..