Forever Mine

a

anding under the shower with the warm water running over her

lt jubilant. It scared her a little. She was still very aware of the fact that this was Angel—the Angel she'd heard so much about. But he said he was

d been out here, and he was anxious to see how it went. Sarah told him everything, not wanting to leave anything out, especially about the kiss

o get her blow dryer and ran into Valerie, still in her sleep clothes,

ngel is picking me up." She

ed and eyes popped

and started back to her room with Valerie in tow. "Oh my God,

The more she made out of this, the harder it would be if she turned out to be Angel's flavor of the w

said. "Angel called while I

'd never actually met him, but she didn't understand their friendship.

y in Flagstaff with him and his family, rather than come and live with Valerie and her aun

's bed. "Are you gonna t

Angel referring to Sydney as a she this morni

t up in surprise. "Rea

, we hung out one night. Yo

you guys are

territorial or not, I

e'll see what he thinks of Syd

subject of Jesse when they got to the beach—how stone-faced he'd turned when she told him

erious? You, yourself, said he'd never had

answer. Valerie was ruining this for her. It was way too soon to start w

girl. But she pushed it to the back of her mind. She'd cross that bridge w

ght, Sarah. I've never seen him act like that before. He's never been one for public displays

ey and if he walks, oh well, too bad for him, on to the next. But you're not like me. You're sweet, sensitive little Sarah. And I saw the way you looked

purse, eyeing Valerie. She put her makeup on silently. She hardly wore any, so it didn't take very long. Sh

it h

and ran over to Sarah's side, leaning in to try and hear him. Sarah

r side the whole time. When she hung up, Valerie groan

d barely had enough time to absorb what had happened the night before, and now he was o

could tell it was an older model, but it was still nice. She looked out the window and watched hi

at no one in particular