"Who said I fell for him?" asked Shannon, affronted. "I'm already happily involved with someone else. Namely, you. I don't know how that works since I'm already talking about you, but that's what happens when we get into these silly hypothetical conversations. What have we got so far?"

Eli's reply only received amused laughter in response. "I'd not only have to be blind, but deaf and dumb to have not noticed that, Eli." It had been especially noticeable the week previous when Eli and Michelle had kept at it so long that Shannon had fallen asleep on them well after they'd already gone an entire round. "I meant for getting all this stuff ready."