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He’s flying in at the end of next month so we can talk about it face-to-face, so I need to have some idea of what I want to do by then.”
    “Do it.”
    “Don’t do it.”
    “I don’t know.”
    Funny how the three of them echoed perfectly what she was thinking herself.

Chapter 3
“All right, look, if you absolutely have to tell her, at least wait until the timing’s right…and that’s what deathbeds are for.”
    Chandler Bing,
Friends,
“The One the Morning After”
    Jack was still smiling the next morning.
    He could have ducked out the side door last night, and Snip never would’ve known he’d been there. Hell, he’d spent the last two years avoiding her; he could’ve kept on doing it, but one look at her sitting there with her friends and he was right back at that damn Hawaiian party four years ago, wondering why a pretty girl like her wasn’t surrounded by a bunch of guys and wondering if he should give it a shot with her.
    It had taken him a long time to get over that feeling the first time, and yet one smile from her last night screwed him up all over again.
    And he didn’t even care. He should, because it meant he’d have to find a way to get over that feeling all over again, but for now, he just didn’t care. It was Snip and he liked the way she screwed him up. He liked the way those blue eyes looked at him with wonder, like she was honestly interested in whatever he said, and he really liked the way one smile from her sent everything inside him into a complete riot.
    He wasn’t stupid. He’d learned early on that what he wanted or liked rarely mattered. If someone in his foster home wanted what he had, they usually took it—whether it was his LEGOs, his books, or even his dessert—and being as scrawny as he’d been, he’d always let them. It was what it was, and he’d learned to live with it. That all changed, though, when he moved in with the Carsons. They treated him fairly, and unlike some of the other people he’d lived with, Burt and Genie used the money they received for fostering him to actually care for him and make sure he had what he needed, and a lot of that included involving him in every sport out there.
    They pushed Jack to do better, to
be
better, and he and Will used that to challenge each other in everything from school to sports to girls. It seemed to take forever, but with the help of the school weight room, Jack finally started to fill out, and while he’d turned into the better athlete, he had nothing on Will when it came to getting girls. Maya wasn’t the only woman Jack had lost to Will, but she was the only one he ever regretted losing.
    Maybe
losing
wasn’t the right word, since Jack hadn’t even tried to win her, but any chance he might have had with Snip vanished the second Will had shouldered his way between them at that party. Why wouldn’t Maya fall for Will?
    Will was a smart, good-looking guy who had the ability to make everyone around him feel both important and at ease at the same time. It was one of the many reasons he made such a great teacher. Jack, on the other hand, had gone from tall and scrawny to big, goofy, and awkward, especially around pretty women. Funny thing was, though, he’d never felt that way around Snip, not even when his clumsy attempt to pick her up that night had ended in disaster.
    It was the damnedest thing, like Snip understood him even when he wasn’t sure what the hell he was feeling. The night of the wedding rehearsal, he’d tried so hard to pretend Genie’s words didn’t affect him, but Snip knew they did, and she’d tried to soften the blow by poking fun at it.
    It started with a copy of
Cool Hand Luke,
and then over the next nine or ten months, she sent copies of
Papillon, Escape from Alcatraz,
and
The Fugitive.
The last one,
The Shawshank Redemption,
showed up with a Get Out of Jail Free card taped across the front.
    A couple weeks after that one arrived, her marriage imploded and he’d been pulled into the Carson