“Can I be honest with you, Cohen?”

“Oh course, Dani.  You know that.”

Her eyes widen when she hears my sisters start yelling from upstairs.  It won’t be long before they fly down the basement stairs to where we’re sitting like two twin tornados of sass.

“If you don’t want those two overhearing you, now would be a good time, Dani.”

She blushes more.  “I’m going to miss you, Cohen.  I know you don’t look at me like I look at you, but one day, you’re going to come back and I’ll still be waiting for you.  Waiting for you to see me like I see you.  Mark my words, Cohen Cage.  One of these days, you’re going to be mine.  And until you’re ready…I’ll be here.  I’ll be waiting.”

Before I can even get a breath in my lungs to respond, Frick and Frack come running into the room, talking about who knows what.  I just sit there frozen, my jaw slack and my eyes on Dani.  Before I know it, they’re pulling Dani off the couch and running out the back of the house.

What the hell just happened?