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muscles.” He chuckled at the frustrated expression on her face. “I know you’re not easy, that’s why I’m interested. You may not fall easily, but you will fall. They always do.” He extended his arm towards her as if he were going to touch her but moved towards a paint chip in her hand, brushing his fingers against her hand.
    “This is the color,” he said.

Chapter 5
    “Cooper’s pretty hot isn’t he? He’s kind of sexy.” Diane said as she drove Noli to The Smithery the next morning. Cooper was going to play junior wedding planner again.
    “What?” Noli didn’t think she’d ever heard her prim and proper use the words hot and sexy in the same sentence. She would usually say ‘handsome’ or ‘attractive’ and occasionally she’d acknowledge that a guy had ‘an admirable physique’.
    “Cooper, he’s kind of sexy?”
    “That’s what I thought you said. Does Jack know you have a thing for his best friend?”
    “I don’t have a thing for him,” Diane denied, “but you do. Don’t you?”
    “No,” she said but thought maybe. “Why would you even say that?”
    “He’s so your type.”
    “I don’t have a type.”
    “Yes you do. Tall and muscular just like every single boyfriend you’ve ever had.” Diane said.
    “He’s also cocky and overly self-confident.”
    “That’s redundant, which is a dead giveaway that you think I’m right. If I remember correctly, that’s a quality that both DeJuan and Andre shared.”
    “And that’s why I’m not with either of them.”
    “You’re not with them because they were immature and thought multiple girlfriends was the status quo.”
    “That could be Cooper too.”
    “Not from what Jack’s said. He may not be the kind to settle down, but he’s not the kind to play around. That rhymed, I think I’ll be a rapper.”
    They both chuckled. “Aunt Catherine would love that.”
    The soft whispered tone from the NPR deejay on the radio filled the car as they rode in silence.
    “What do you know about Kayla?” Noli asked.
    “I think she moved here about a year ago from somewhere down south to attend Indiana University. She started working at The Smithery and over the summer she started helping Cooper brew the soft drinks.”
    “What about her and Cooper? Do you think they have something going on?”
    “No, why would you think that?”
    “She was pretty upset that first night when she saw,” Noli paused when she realized she was going to reveal the drunken kiss. She knew Diane had already planted the seed that she and Cooper would make a great couple and she didn’t want to nurture its growth in any way. “She didn’t seem too happy when she saw Cooper and me together. Plus, they spend a lot of time together.”
    “Is that jealousy I hear?”
    “No. Not at all. Just trying to prove a point. He’s been flirting with me and has something going with Kayla. I think he’s a player.”
    Diane nodded. “Umm huh. If there was more than an employee and employer relationship going on it would have been over with by now. According to Daphne, his longest relationship was with a gold fish that died after a month.”
    “So all the time Kayla and Cooper spend together is platonic?” Noli asked with a doubtful tone.
    “This is sounding a lot like jealousy,” Diane said.
    “Or does it sound like the girl in love seeing things that aren’t there? Cooper is just helping me pull your wedding together. That’s all.”
    “Cooper helping you with my wedding, plus flirting with you, equals something.”
    They had arrived at the restaurant and Cooper was at the bar talking with Kayla. Trevor was leaning on the bar, but didn’t seem that interested in the conversation. Kayla on the other hand, was fully into every word falling out of Cooper’s mouth. He said something that made her throw her arms around him. Trevor simply smiled and nodded.
    “See, that’s not quite platonic,” Noli said.
    “She’s a very excitable girl. I’ve been on the