Page 33 of Your Fan Forever
“No. I don’t think that’s it either.” I answered and placed my putter in my bag. “I think she just doesn’t understand what life with me will be like and the unknown freaks her out because she can’t make it up in her headanymore.”
Preston paused with his hands resting on the top of thecart.
“You ruined her carefully planned out fantasy by becoming her unknownreality.”
“Wow, that’s deep.” It really was deep and more accurate than I cared toadmit.
“You need to talk to her. Reassure her. Give her more of that,yes, Noahlove and let her know that while life with you may be unpredictable, it’s every bit as fulfilling as thefantasy.”
It was my turn to shake myhead.
“Toofar.”
“Yeah.” I slid in the driver side of thecar.
“No way man. Slid over,” Prestonsaid.
“What? I won thehole.”
“We tied the hold, slideover.”
It was my turn to look around. If anyone heard us, you’d think we sounded like two spoiled littlekids.
I slid over and paused as the view captured my conscious. It must have hit Preston too. For the first time all afternoon, he stoppedtalking.
It’s probably why we’d been boys for so long. We knew when we needed to offer advice and when we needed to shut the hell up and enjoy theride.
I needed to teach Callie to do the same thing. Enjoy the ride and for sure make our life together better than herfantasies.
