“Hey, ya'll,can we go?" Leah asked. "The cute guys are gonna be taken by the time we get there.""No,they won't be," Sam said,"Because you'll be ariving with them.”

“What can I get you guys?" Another lie, maybe?”

“Switch places," Sam ordered me. "What are we doing, playing musical partners here?""I didn't know we were playing with Foosball sharks here.We're starting over.”

“But I just couldn't seem to get excited about the fact that we were sorta having a date.I mean, he'd asked me to go skiing with him, and so here I was, and my heart should have been pounding.But it wasn't.I could have been going to the grocery store to pick up a bag of potatoes for all the thudding it was doing.”

“I finally got it.Allie and Sam..heavy duty secret handshake going on.”

“It's just that,well,I'm gonna pull a Brad on you.""You're going to start totally ignoring me?”

“I'm trying to figure out how much I need to deposit into the Kate-have-a-good-time fund," he said."It's pretty empty.You might have to make a substanial deposit." I couldn't believe how breathless I sounded,like I'd been running beside a snowmobile instead of riding on it.His grin grew."I'm still strapped for cash.""You're torturing me,you know thst? Did you take lessons from Sam?""I'm torturing you?Geez,you've been torturing me since the day we got here.”