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“Your guy seee, smiled at me as she helped one of the kids load marshmallows onto a stick

“He is” I looked over at hiht at the same time He was nice So nice But he wasn’t mine

“You’re not fighting, are you?” Ingrid asked

“No, of course not” II needed was that ru out with his friends”

“And you get him all to yourself later anyway”

“There is that” Da about the one-bed situation for an hour or so, but now those thoughts swar the brief second when I’d thought Derrick ood for me, let me cool off this obsession with hi to share that bed

Chapter Eleven

Derrick

One bed As I listened to Calder and his friends recount so back to that little cabin and the single bed waiting for us I wasn’t ruling out sleeping upright in one of the chairs I’dto avoid the te off his hair, leam like polished copper But what truly captivated me was his smile, and I couldn’t believe I’d never noticed it asin a striped sling, the dad toting said sling, the little girl asking for seconds on s’n-up sheet for the talent show, and ot a brilliant Arthur smile

But when he glancedwas undoubtedly wearing on him too, and I wished I knehat to do to earn one of those smiles for myself He’d been so free with theet back to that place

“Hey, we’re going to play cards after this” Calder clapped me on the shoulder as the crowd at the ca the fire extinguishing, parents rounding up sleepy kids and older adultsto come to our cabin after the kids are settled You in?”