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The vibe was tense in the car aspath to Pine Shades Country Club Mom and Dad were in their Sunday best, and Katie wore a cocktail dress that ed to look both classy and sexy at the same time—she’d always been a snappy dresser and had ended up on ram Brooklyn style accounts

None of thatonto the country club so I could get proposed to And iven them the story about Josh, hoe’d hit it off and all that Katie was the most perplexed of all

“I don’t get it,” she said, breaking the silence in the car “You’ve been seeing this guy for the last month? How? When?”

“Is it really that hard to iet a boyfriend?” God, the as so bizarre to say And fiancé was going to be even weirder

“It’s not that, of course It’s that you’ve been talking about this guy like, well, he was anything but that I thought you two had only seen each other once, right? Why didn’t you tellon between you two more serious than that?”

“Because as weird as it’s been for you to hear about it, it’s been even stranger to actually be doing it I don’t know, I guess when I talked to you about hi on, it’d be harder for you to give an unbiased take”

“Oh, you knowto hold back I’”

“Like I said, it sort of snuck up on me”

“You’ve kept it froht kids were supposed to tell their parents everything”

“Oh, come on,” said Mom “You know that’s not hoorks” She followed this up with a chi—yeah, I’m sure”

“I didn’t want to be secretive about it, but I only wanted to let you all knohen it see”

“And that means it’s serious?” Dad sounded concerned “I don’t know anything about this Josh guy I mean, other than his family rep”

“He’s funny and char and insanely handso to lose your uy”

That is, if I didn’t already lose my mind from the stress of it all