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"I'm going to head out," I said, pulling away again with a small, somewhat regretful smile.
"Okay, are you sure?" he asked.
He was handsome, and he was used to women melting as a result of his stare. But I couldn't let myself melt. And I didn't want a lot of time to pass before AJ went back out there with everyone else. I didn't want Charlie to see that he was gone for too long.
"Thanks for having me."
"Thanks for saving the day with those burgers," he said. "Uncle Max was a little mad about that meat."
I shook my head and smiled dazedly at the thought of all the wasted meat. They had planned on barbequing, but the ribs smelled funny, and no one wanted to chance it. AJ had mentioned me coming over, and that was what led to me bringing burgers for everyone.
"Okay, well, goodnight, AJ. Thanks again for having me over."
"Do you want to come back again tomorrow?"
I widened my eyes and shrugged. "Maybe," I said.
"Maybe for lunch?" he asked.
"I don't get off until noon, but I can just text you if… I'll just text you tomorrow morning, and we'll try to work something out."
"Sounds good," he said.
AJ didn't try to kiss me again. He was too smooth for that. He got the picture that I wasn't going to let it happen like it happened last time, and he left me in the driveway like he didn't care to try. He patted the top of my car and we waved at each other, and just like that, I was heading out of Broken Arrow.
I drove for twenty minutes without looking at my phone, but I took it out when I came to a blinking traffic light. I had two texts and a missed call from Stacy, and I shook my head as I called her back.
"How'd it go?" was how she answered the phone.
"Fine. Good. They liked the burgers. Everybody said how good they were."
"Are you getting married to AJ Cameron?"
"No."
"Did you hang out with him?" she asked.
"Yes. We hung out. He jumped into the pool with me."
Stacy squealed, and I laughed, flinched, and held the phone away from my ear.
"With your clothes on?"
"Yes, my clothes were on. Thank goodness I didn't have my phone in my pocket."
"That's amazing. I saw a picture of him from the other day and he is sooo hot, Hope."
"Charlie got his haircut."
"Yeah, Charlie was there. How did that go with you hanging out with AJ?"
"It was fine. Me and Charlie are just friends. I barely talked to him at all. I didn't think everyone knew how long he had been here, so I pretended we weren't so well acquainted."
"So well acquainted?" she asked. "What the heck do you mean by that?"
"I didn't know if everyone knew he'd been staying out there so long. His dad and his brother obviously know, but even they didn't say anything to him about it, at least not in front of me. They just act like they're all meeting there and don't even talk about Savannah."
"And Charlie was just fine with you ignoring him and hanging out with AJ?"
