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So, the way I saw it, Everly and I had a couple of choices

We could stay in the cottage, maybe play cards (strip poker? not likely), and cuddle on the sofa while Link and Hailey disappeared into the other bedroom And in the space of two hours, they’d disappeared at least three times

Or we could head to Baton Rouge on our own

We opted for Baton Rouge, because the thought of trying to act like we didn’t knohat Hailey and Link were doing, while we kept busy doing everything but what Hailey and Link were doing, kind of sucked We were taking it slow, and I was cool with that, but still, the cottage had paper-thin walls and our roommates weren’t exactly quiet

Everly drove and I tried to ignore the tic behind o away Wasn’t hard to do She looked hot in a dress that showed just enough leg to get a guy thinking Tight jeans or short shorts were great, but there was so a dress that I liked

By the time we rea

ched Baton Rouge the rain had stopped, and we decided to eat dinner at an outdoor place on Front Street It was fa to my parents, had the best Creole and Cajun food in the city, which is why I suggested it Turns out Everly had never been to Baton Rouge

After digging into a plate full of crawfish-stuffed beignets, I had to agree The food was top-shelf, and the coht I knoas the guy in the chick flick Sue me

“What?” I asked, wiping the corner of my mouth as I settled back in my chair

Everly shrugged and twirled the straw in her glass of soda, that slow shten The one that ht before

“You sure can eat a lot,” she said softly

“I’ appetite” There it was The blush I’d been waiting for

“Good to know” She tucked a loose piece of hair behind her ear “I, uh,” she said slowly, so slowly that her slight southern draas accented “I’m just happy to be here with you Away fro”

“Ditto”

She smiled then, a full-on one-hundred-watt smile, andthat a smile could do that