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I lean against the van to catch my breath a minute, and Cassidy and Nora keep me company They’re both librarians here too, and I’ot plenty of work to do, but they look like they could use a minute to catch their breath, too

“Hey,” I say, “Tell me about the honeymoon, Cookie”

I use the cute nickname that Cassidy’s new husband calls her by—which her father-in-law, a tenacious library patron, had come up with

“Yeah,” Nora agrees “You’re my sister and even I have barely heard any details”

Cassidy and her husband Chuck had fallen fast and hard for each other, and got married two months after they , and I was just the best friend cheering her on from the sidelines

But I’ve never seen her happier, and that’s all I need to know that Chuck’s the one for her

“Haas absolutely ical,” Cassidy says “Beautiful, sunny, vibrant…”

“A whole bunch of vague adjectives that tell me the two of you hardly left your suite,” I say with a wink

“So not true,” Cassidy shoots back, then she blurts out, “We went for a lovely hike and did it behind a waterfall our first day there”

She clamps a hand over her mouth before she can say any onna find my own Tall, Dark and Handso beyond our hotel room walls on our honeymoon”

Cassidy laughs, but Nora just sighs “And I’ll be here at the library, reading picture books to other people’s kids and slowly beco an old spinster”

“No, you won’t,” Cassidy says “You just have to wait for the right guy to co”

“He’s sure taking his sweet time,” Nora says She’s two years older than Cassidy, and a year older than my twenty-four years, and sometimes I think that fact eats at her; that her kid sister basically just lucked into

“It’ll happen when it’s meant to,” I say, and I believe that with my whole heart

My own life hasn’t been easy—far fros always see up poor, ed to have just enough And when both of my parents died when I was just fifteen years old, Nora and Cassidy’s parents took me in and treated me as their own