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“What do you mean?” Andi leaned into her legs, resting against the weight of them. “Do youlikeDeckard?” There was something in her tone. Something that bespoke of interest.
“Sure I like him. He’s fun to be around, but I don’tlike, likehim.”
Andi arched a brow. “You sure about that?” Her friend’s tone said otherwise.
“I couldn’t possibly,” Harp said. “I just met the man.”
She’d just met Christian, but she knew how she felt for him. Or had before ...No. She still did, but that didn’t mean things wouldn’t change between them. “Sometimes things move fast,” she finally muttered. Their feelings had happened fast. Fast and hard. He dizzied her in a way no one else ever had.
“No,” Harper said. “It’s just ... I caught myself thinking I might not be ready to go on my ICRC stint.”
“Really?”
“Don’t sound excited. That’s not a good thing.”
“Why isn’t that a good thing?” Harper hadn’t dated anyone in a while. Always keeping her distance for her love of travel, her love of volunteering with humanitarian organizations like ICRC. She always said she couldn’t get attached, so her dates never went past the fourth one.
“Because that’s my priority,” Harper said. “God’s my priority, and He’s put it on my heart to go. The fact I wavered for even a moment says I need to keep a strong boundary there.”
“Or maybe it means His will for you is changing.”
“Don’t be ridiculous.”
“God’s will for our lives is a constant, but it doesn’t mean He keeps us on a straight line. It’s a walk of many hills and valleys.” She knew the valleys well. “And often He moves us right when we get comfortable with something.”
Harper exhaled.
Good. She was pondering that.
“Okay, we were talking about you,” she shifted the conversation. “So what’s up?”
Andi debated on pushing it with Harper, but the weight of what just happened with her and Christian was mounting. She needed to get it out. “Okay, so they had a rough childhood. I can’t express how rough.” Butroughdidn’t cover it.
“I’m sorry to hear that. But that explains the pain Deckard wears.”
“You see it too?”
“Oh yeah.”
“So ... in his teens Christian wore Mickey ears. And it wasn’t good, but he’s taken them off and put on Christ.”
“So...?”
She frowned. “So ...?”
“So what’s the problem?”
“He wore Mickey ears.”
“But he doesn’t anymore, and it sounds to me like whatever hedid is behind him and he’s a new creation in Christ, or am I reading that wrong?”
“No. You just about nailed it, as usual.” Harper was such a pain in her rear—always nailing things, which left little room for hiding.
“So, if that’s the case, then what’s the problem?”
Andi kicked her feet out in front of her. “I thought I knew Jeremy, but I didn’t.”
“You’re comparing Christian to Jeremy again?”
