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stuck to the box that read " Just in case. "
    That was her Aunt Georgette--the thoughtful black sheep of the family.

Chapter 5

    The rest of the morning and afternoon was spent unpacking and organizing all of her stuff. Billie had warned her against touching her things, but she wasn't around and Sarah couldn't stand it taking up her side of the room, anymore. If Billie didn't want her things touched, then she was going to have to make certain that they weren't in the way.
    Sarah didn't want to think about Billie, anymore. Her morning had already been ruined because of her, and there were more important things to occupy her mind. All she really wanted to think about was the fact that soon she and Huck would be all alone in their new city, with their new life. After that night, her parents would be gone, and she'd be freer than she'd ever been before. Not that they'd kept her on a tight leash back in Green Falls, but being in the big city, hundreds of miles away from them, was going to be something very new, indeed.
    Friends called her crazy when she had told them she was going to follow Huck to Franklin. She didn't think it was crazy at all. Crazy would have been letting the love of her life slip away because of a four-hour car drive.
    When the evening rolled around, Huck showed up at 6:30 like they'd agreed. But when Sarah opened the door to let him in, she was shocked by what she saw.
    “What are you wearing?” she asked, eyeing him up and down. "And what is that smell?"
    “It's Axe--I picked it up at the Union. I thought I looked nice," he said.
    He turned to the side as though showing her something she may have missed the first time she looked at him. He was wearing dark blue jeans and a tight V-neck tee-shirt with black tribal symbols snaking around the side. The longer he stood there, the more certain Sarah was that he'd used the entire bottle of body spray instead of just a little bit.
    “It's just... Where's your cowboy hat?” she asked.
    “I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but there aren’t a lot of cowboy hats around here,” he said.
    “What does that have to do with us going out to a nice dinner with my parents?” she asked.
    "I just thought it would be nice to switch things up," he said. "Maybe I should go change since you think I look so ugly."
    "Huck, I didn't say you looked ugly." Sarah stepped into him and wrapped her arms around his neck. "But, you could stand to lose the smell."
    "The sign said that all the ladies would love it," he said, a silly grin on his face.
    "Since when are you trying to impress the ladies?"
    His face twisted in confusion. "That's not what I meant. You're a lady, too."
    Sarah narrowed her eyes in mock accusation, but let out a giggle when Huck looked like a panicked deer in the headlights. A soft growl rumbled through his chest as he pulled her even tighter against him and locked her in a kiss.
    "We better get going so we’re not late,” Sarah said, when their lips had finally parted. “We’re meeting my parents at the hotel.” Huck let out another groan, and tried to pull her in for another kiss. Sarah giggled and squirmed away from him. "I'm serious, we're going to be late."
    "Fine," he said, his back going stiff. "But one of these times I'm not going to let you off so easy."
    "I hope you don't," she said, with a sideways smile.
    The two walked across campus to the student parking lot where Huck had left his truck. Sarah was still amazed at how different the place felt compared to the night before. It was like the place had been sleeping when they'd first arrived, and now it was awake.
    Neither of them had spent any real time in the city since they'd arrived, but they managed to find the Hilton where Sarah's parents were staying with the help of her iPhone. In the confines of Huck's truck, the smell of the body spray was even more overpowering. Sarah actually had to lower her window so she could breathe without getting a headache.
    Huck parked the truck in a spot