The day dragged. Completion of the briefs was taking longer than Trent had thought it would. The lawyer he was working with kept making changes and kept asking Trent to do more precedent research. During a short lunch break in the office building’s cafeteria, he called his sister.
When she answered the phone, Trent could hardly contain his excitement. “Hey, Nicci, you’ll never guess what happened to me yesterday!”
“Since I won’t be able to guess, just tell me,” Nicci said with a laugh.
“Dean’s back in town,” he said joyously.
“Dean? Dean Pennington? Your best friend from high school? The one I had a crush on?”
“The very one.”
“Didn’t his family move somewhere overseas?”
“Yes—to Jakarta.”
“Is he as hot as I remember?”
“Hotter! And remember, I got first dibs on him,” Trent said.
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