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all. She was happier than Summer had ever seen her. It was obvious that she’d found her match in Shane. She gave Summer a hug. “Thank you! And what about you? How have you been?” She shot a look toward the door. “How’s Carter?”
    Summer couldn’t help smiling. “Carter is wonderful! You know I adore him.”
    Cassidy nodded. “So, my flat tire came at a good time?”
    Summer had wondered about the timing. “Did you really have one?”
    Cassidy shrugged. “Might have. Might not. All that matters is that you got a ride home.”
    “Thank you.”
    “I need more than that! How did it go? What’s he said? What’s going to happen with you two?”
    “If only I knew what’s going to happen. I have no idea. It was so wonderful to see him at the airport. But he told me he was planning to avoid me while I’m here. I understand why—and it might be the wisest thing to do. But, Cass, I don’t want him to. I want to spend time with him. I want him to be my friend.”
    Cassidy snorted. “You were doing well, but don’t start lying to me. You do not want him to be your friend. You want a whole lot more than that. And so does he. I can tell.”
    Summer nodded. “You’re right. As always. But what do we do about it? Neither of us do casual, and casual is all it could be. His life is here. My life is in Nashville.”
    Cassidy gave her a stern look. “And have you given any thought to your life in Nashville? To your career? Last time we talked about it, you weren’t even sure you wanted to keep singing—even if you could.”
    Summer heaved a big sigh. “Honestly. I haven’t wanted to think about it. I feel as though I’d be jinxing myself.”
    Cassidy raised an eyebrow.
    She shrugged. “I daren’t let my mind go near the thought of stopping singing, because…well, I know it sounds silly, but…it feels as though I’m being ungrateful. Singing has been the best thing that’s happened to me. If I think about giving it up, it might be taken away from me.”
    “Taken away from you?”
    “I might not get my voice back. I might not be able to sing again. Like I said, I know it’s silly. In fact it’s probably just an excuse not to make any decisions until I have to.”
    Cassidy nodded. “That sounds more like it.”
    “Yeah, well I’m not Miss Head-on Full-on like you are. I don’t want to face it until I have to.”
    “So what’s your plan? Take three months here, see what the doctors say and then decide?”
    “Yeah, that’s about it.”
    “And what happens to Autumn in the meantime? And Carter, for that matter?”
    Summer shrugged. That was the problem. She didn’t want to make any decisions about her career until she had to, but there were other decisions that she did want to make. Decisions that would depend on what happened with her career. “I don’t know, Cass! I don’t want to hurt either of them. I don’t want to screw either of them over, but how can I know anything, until I know whether I can sing again?” She could hear the croak in her voice as she finished—so much for not overdoing it!
    Cassidy put a hand on her shoulder. “You need to decide what you want, not wait to see what’s possible.”
    Summer nodded. She could only expect that from Cassidy, that’s what she herself would do—take life by the horns and wrestle with it till it submitted to her will. Summer was more used to going along with whatever life dictated and making the most of it. It wasn’t that she wasn’t strong. It was just that life had always dealt her a pretty decent hand and she made the most of the opportunities presented to her. She’d never been in this kind of situation before—where she needed to figure out what she wanted and go after it, for the sake of the people she cared about as much as her own.
    “Do you know what you want?”
    She shrugged. She thought she did, but everything she wanted conflicted with something else she wanted! Deep down, she already knew she wanted to quit her career.