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"I know men" She winked at me and shimmied in the seat, and I put on a fake Spanish accent

"Maddie, I think you are trying to turnto pretend you’re Italian?" She giggled

"How dare you, I’ht face

"Puerto Rico by way of Ro to show you how to salsa"

"Ooh, really? I’d like you to show et a dress at theto beco tortured while he waits for his woman to try on clothes"

"I don’t know that you ever don’t look tortured"

"Are you calling me dour?"

"Dour?" Sheht of sour old women as dour"

"Yay I’m not a sour old woman"

"Thank God" She leaned over and whispered in my ear "I wouldn’t want to have sex with a dour or sour old wo room"

"What?" My eyes nearly popped out of et your heart racing"

"You figured right! Why didn’t you tell me earlier? I would have taken you to any uy"

"I think we established that already" I laughed and pressed the gas pedal excitedly I turned on the radio and stopped at a song that Maddie see her head and I laughed as she danced around in the seat As I drove, I realized that I was happy It was a weird feeling A unique feeling for ood it felt The worries and the stress were gone, albeit briefly, and at the back of my mind But in this instant, I felt like I was in Utopia I’d never realized just hoonderful it could feel to be with someone I liked who liked ht noas just Logan, a regular boy, and I was ao into Macy’s" Maddie pulledrooirls around"

"Macy’s?" I "

"It’s in a store, it’s fine"

"No, no If we’re going to do this, it has to be soan Not Hedonis there"

"Hell, no" Maddie shook her head

"I’ I don’t have the money to take us there, even if I wanted to" I ry at otten the dire straits I was currently in I followed Maddie distractedly, as I started thinking about what I was going to do Five hundred dollars wasn’t going to help the fa hi else to do

"Logan, earth to Logan" Maddie looked atmy face It was funny how she always seeed I knew that people said women were in tune with eh to pay attention to "

"Nope, I forbid it" She grabbed her hands "No worrying and no thinking right now"

"You’re a bossy boots"

"It cohed, only half-joking If I didn’t have Vincent and Jared to worry about, I could have left River Valley and started a new life for myself I could have reinventedof my life But then you wouldn’t have met Maddie, a little voice whispered in my head And you wouldn’t have your two best friends in your life, another voice whispered And it was true; I’d take whatever adversity came my way to ensure that I had Vincent and Jared into me They were my blood and my sweat They were the only people I knew I could trust my life with Until I met Maddie

"What are your brothers like?" Maddie interruptedif she had ESP or sohter, and one of the best men I know He is also pretty reserved, but he would do anything for the ones he loves Jared, well, you know Jared a bit, he’s the baby of the fa troubleh as I talked about Jared Between Vincent and Jared, Jared was the one I was most worried about He was smart and rebellious, more so than me and Vincent And he had a propensity to act first and think later I orried he was going to get hi hie I felt if he had sooals and a real routine, he wouldn’t have ti around with

"Yeah, Jared seems really cool" Maddie smiled "He’s very handsome and friendly"

"Do you have a crush on hi for her answer All I could think about is how badly I would want to beat Jared if she said yes

"Oh, no" She laughed "Not at all You’ve always been the Martelli boy for h I’ve never rinned up at her in relief I hadn’t been looking forward to socking my own brother

"Joey’s sister My best friend" She set already?"

"Oh, no," I lied "Sure, Lucy"

"You totally didn’t reer down my chest "I’d like to meet him, too"

"Meet who?" My brain was distracted as she ran her fingers to the top of my jeans and then paused

"Your brother Vincent" She leaned closer and looked up ather lashes cutely

"What about your brother? I azed down at her juicy pink lower lip and lickedon it with my teeth

"I’d like to meet hiainstand she rewarded me with a slow, sensual kiss I pulled her towards me and put my hands in the back pockets of her jeans as we kissed I pushed hbeside us that I reretfully

"Oh, Logan" She sh eyes of lust and ain I grabbed her hand and alked quickly through thefor a store that would fit the bill "What about JC Penney?" She pointed to the store in the far corner, and I shook hed and then I saw the pink stripes of Victoria’s Secret and o there"

"Where?" Maddie followed o in Victoria’s Secret" She shook her head "They have girls by the changing rooms all the time and there is no way they will let you in with me"

"Then we’ll have to sneak me in"

"How can we sneak you in?" Her voice lowered as we entered the store and I was surrounded by panties and bras I glanced around and grinned Now this was a store to have sex in I glanced at Maddie and pictured her h would be nice

"Logan," Maddie hissed at me "Pay attention"