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"Is that so? You like irl repeated

Her father sighed I could tell he was exhausted frohter day Daddy used to have the same look when I was a kid "It’s opposite day She knoho you are Right, April?"

Her lovely s to take h to not like boys"

"Of course not Well, don’t have your daddy andmarried"

"Who aren’t you?"

Cooper’s eyes shifted toback to the southern belle "This is not my date"

I could feel my cheeks redden I was--er, well, wasn’t--his date

The father grabbed his daughter’s arm and started to pull her away "Okay, I think that’s enough Time to leave them alone"

Cooper smiled "Happy Opposite Day, April" The talked away, and I sat there speechless He was so srabbed my hand from across the table and kissed it "It’s opposite day"

"That’s what I hear"

AFTER DINNER, WE pulled up to Cooper’s house he kept in South Carolina It was beautiful--a perfect, southern, large piece of property It was gated off froracing the front yard As we pulled into the drive-way, I noticed so Cooper was a lot richer than I had known Yet, it see uy who happened to have a heavy checkbook in his pockets

"It’s so stunning here" I looked at the white house with the large porch and yellow shutters on the s I felt as if I’d walked into a movie Ladasha would have loved it; it looked like a place that belonged in a Nicholas Sparks movie Cooper stepped out of the car and wrapped his arm around my waist as I dissolved into the curves of his body

"Yeah, I forgot how much I loved this place Iris and I only stayed here awhile before she decided she wanted to move to New York But this…" His eyes sparkled as he looked around and opened the door to the house "This is hoht in his bedroos we didn’t speak about were Iris and Derrick Those tere off limits

Cooper had played baseball when he was a kid His azine involving tigers, which was terrible for his fear of cats He got in a fist fight with a guy as cussing out a bartender who ious, but he believed in Jesus

Little known facts about Cooper Davidson

He was lying down on theI watched his chest rise and fall each tih…" He said, lifting one of his ar his head in the paler than all of this? Bigger than us? And what if he appeared to us in our darkest ive us a little extra push? Iinto the strip club in New York City that night to "

Maybe he was right Maybe there was soether that night Who knew? I didn’t believe inand everyone But if there was sorand order to this crazy world, then I proot the opportunity I would thank the me Cooper so I wouldn’t feel so alone

His eyesback onto theers across his chest "No I think you’re passionate about your beliefs And I think I like it I like how you get lost in your thoughts soht side of his lips curved into a halfway smile He placed his hands onhirinned, knowing that the list was growing daily My fingers traced his lips, feeling hiainst my touch "I like your lips But not just because they deliver kisses in the gentlest way, but because when they move, they are sincere with their words I believe whatever coers across his cheek "I like your dimples, because they only appear when you are happy And I like that you’re happy when you’re aroundmy heart skip

My hands wrapped around his head and I loweredthem there "I like your mind Hoorks, how it cares" Next , as I continued speaking "I like your eyes, and how they focus on whoever’s around you And you don’t just notice them, but you see them Many people look, but they don’t see"