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Josh reached for his jacket and shrugged it on without responding

“You can ignore o away You are lost You won’t let yourself care about anything, and it’s getting tiring You’re boring”

After her whole speech—and it was a good one—for soave hi,” he repeated slowly

She nodded emphatically “Yup You’re a cancer survivor, but you’re not being one of the cool ones who keeps on trucking, waving your ‘I beat it’ flag and taking on the world You’re one of the scared ones who’s letting it beat you Not physically, butyour ass”

He let out a surprised laugh “I swear to God, having a twin is the worst”

But even as he said it, a strange sense of cal over him He wished that the self-realization would have coured shit out for hi he’d shared a as probably the next best thing

And Ja hi a survivor for years, but he’d only physically bested the cancer

He’d let it mess with his mind And definitely his heart

A heart that absolutely knehat it wanted And what it wanted was a certain curly-haired wedding planner with green eyes and a heart of gold

But he didn’t deserve Heather as he was now

Heather was a go-getter A firecracker She deserved ah his day froain tomorrow

He rose fro both arms around her He intended to lift her off her feet, but he settled for a bear hug instead “Thank you,” he whispered

She swatted the back of his head, then hugged him back Hard “You’re welco toward the door

“You going after Heather?” she asked