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"Are you going out with that guy tonight?"

Not exactly what I was hoping for

But he’s leaning down so close, e Fulton The mayor"

"Uhyeah I oyou knowas friends"

I don’t knohy I added the last part It’s not as if Logan cares Only when he clenches his jaw and drags his gaze off to the side, it kind of feels like he o, is there?" The hope in ood reason at all"

For a moment, neither of us uard calls froan nods to him and my stomach withers

"Katy’s?" I ask

"It’s a pub The upper-class tend to hang around at The Goat; uess we both have plans tonight, then"

"So it seehtly, and that fahinhiht--and his assto the an isn’t, fizzles like an Alka-Seltzer tablet

The opening of the Monet exhibit at the Wessco National Museue outfits The stylist dressed eous royal-blue strapless cocktail dress, with silver platfors my small frame sexily, while the flare of the skirt makes it flirty, not trashy With rown-up A wo to a proraphers--they shout questions and jostle for pri politician and the princess’s sister It’llthey’ve been interested in h neither is really very substantial It’s been fun, a trip, a wild ride--sharing a little slice of Nicholas and Olivia’s spotlight

But in the bright, snapping flash of the cameras, I have an epiphany: this could be my life too

I have connections now, to wealthy, known people--the kind who run cities, and make laws, and rule countries That’s what the Queen meant all this time about my potential--I have the potential to have my sister’s life

If I want it

And that’s always the question, isn’t it? Where do you see yourself in five years? Who will you be? What do you want?

George Fulton is a drea, smart and attentive We discuss the artwork and Monet’s life as we sloander froe He’s easy to like I like him the way I like Tommy Sullivan or Marty or Henry

A friend-like

But the intensity in his eyes doesn’t make my insides o shaky The smell of his skin doesn’t s

There’s only one guy who does that

Only one who ever has

So like every other date I’ve been on since that early o, when I hopped down the steps into the coffee shop and cauard, wearing a killer tie--ht back to Logan