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with his younger sister.   
                  Savannah didn’t mind how often Kelly wanted to tag along with her older brother; he remembered her there among the crowd that had gathered on the day that Brady had pushed Kelly out of the way of that speeding car.
                  He had been lucky to only break his arm, if a broken arm on a baseball player during baseball season could ever be considered lucky.  It still ached whenever there was going to be a heavy storm or when he played a little too hard during a game.
                  Everybody there that day knew that Kelly would not have survived the impact with the car.  None of it changed the fact – and this is where the story varied from person to person – that Kelly was in her brother’s arms when his right arm hit the curb and it cracked.
                 

Chapter Seventeen
                  Closing her eyes to the computer screen for a moment to gather her wandering thoughts, Savannah began typing into the chat window. 
     
    Savannah Blake: Hey, Hannah!  Do you have a minute?
    Hannah Stanfield: Sure.  What’s up?
    Savannah Blake: I was just wondering if you were going to be at bible study tomorrow night.
    Hannah Stanfield: I was planning on it.  Why?
    Savannah Blake: No real reason.  There’s just somebody I think you should meet.
     
                  Yes, she decided while closing out the conversation, this was definitely the step that she wanted to take!  Now, she just had to make certain that Kelly didn’t decide to join them tomorrow night. 
                  Things were not going to be simple.  Whoever would have thought that she would be breaking up with her boyfriend, setting him up with somebody else at the same time, and that it would make sense for her to do it?
                  And it did!  It made sense to Savannah.  They were more friends than they were boyfriend and girlfriend and they let things remain the way they were because it was comfortable, like a pair of jeans that you had washed a million times until they were nice and soft and about to fall apart at some very vital seams.  That was their relationship. 
                  One of those seams was the fact that she knew Brady would look over at Hannah during school or during Bible study, even if he failed to recognize or acknowledge what he was doing.  She had also caught Hannah looking at Brady until she found out that Brady was dating Savannah, and even occasionally after that.
                  Savannah knew they rarely talked; they barely even passed each other in the hallway.  People would wonder how this unlikely pair would have met let alone gotten together.  But she knew.  She knew that they would make an excellent couple; it made more sense than Brady with her.  Savannah couldn’t adequately explain it, but she had a feeling that Brady and Hannah would click.   
                  It was a risky move.  There were so many things that could go wrong with this plan.  Savannah hoped that Kelly wouldn’t insist on joining them, again.  If she did then it would be nearly impossible for Brady and Hannah to have the meeting that Savannah was hoping for!
                  There were a few things in her favor though if Kelly did decide to tag along; she already knew Hannah, even if the girls were not close friends.  Savannah knew that Hannah was smart enough to know she would need to get on Kelly’s good side; she could probably even deal with Aimee Kirkland if necessary. 

                  Picking Savannah up for Bible study, Brady didn’t miss the sigh of relief that Savannah let slip when she saw that Kelly was not already waiting in the car. 
                  After about five minutes of companionable silence Savannah took a deep breath and blurted out, “This is going to sound completely odd, but I’m going