Cared more about what was good for her than for him.She was also a little puzzled, because if this odd man she was with had been interested in that wo...an, that meant he was a normal man. Any normal man would be interested in Jill. And, logically, that meant that when they’d met, he’d have assessed her qualities too. Men always did. And yet, he had not only shown no interest ... he had actually told her he wasn’t interested.She didn’t like the way that made her feel. It confused her. She was. Wasting little time I stepped from the house then, my boots crunching softly in the newly fallen snow, a carpet of white decorating the world abound. Spinning round in a gay circle, my senses leapt with joy at the change. The world had it’s own sounds now, new voices carrying on every intimate breeze. The fragile creak of ice, covering branches here and there, played their own melody, adding to that of a warm stream’s trickle, running undaunted beneath that coffin shell of ice. A simplicity of. Done something like that?”I glanced at Alana, but she was staring at the wall of stars. “Like what?”“I had the feeling that Heather had some kind of plan that night. She took over Miss Ellie, you know.”“Yeah, well, she always has a bunch of crazy plans going on!”“I believe that. Do you think ... Well, this is maybe getting too out there to talk about.”“Aw, go for it. Anything to take my mind off the gig, right?”“All right then. Have you and her ever, like, been with a third person?”I almost. She said that she’d placed third in her race on Saturday, and her coach told her that she would receive a full scholarship in the spring.“Can you watch the boys tonight?” she asked.I almost just said I would, and then saw my mom look away so I couldn’t see the expression on her face. The other issue was, how exactly did she think I could watch them in my condition?“I don’t know. What are you doing?” I asked.“I have a date,” Peggy said, daring me to act protectively.The Alpha Male in me was.
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