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never applied that rule to, and you're the only one who hasn't let me
down." She took a deep breath.

"I was infatuated with Brandon years ago. Perhaps it was a kind of
love, but a girl's love, easily brushed aside. It was a shock seeing
him today, especially right after I finished that song. The
coincidence was..." Raven pushed the feelings away and turned back
from the window. "Brandon will come over tomorrow, and he'll say
whatever it is that he has to say, then he'll go. That'll be the end
of it."

Julie studied Raven's face. "Will it?"

q'Oh, yes." Raven smiled. She was a bit weary after the emotional
outburst but more confident.

She had regained her control. "I like my life just as it is, Julie.

He's not going to change it. No one is, not this time."

emotion, but her voice had grown gradually steadier . "I was barely
twenty when I met Brandon, and I was blindly in love with his talent.

He was kind to me at a time when I badly needed kindness. I was
overwhelmed by him and with my own success."

She lifted a hand to her hair and carefully pushed it behind her
shoulders. "I couldn,t cope with what he wanted from me. I wasn't
ready for a physical relationship." She walked to the brass unicorn
and ran a fingertip down its withers. "So he left," she said softly.

"And I was hurt. All I could see maybe all I wanted to see-was that he
didn't understand, didn't care enough to want to know why I said no.

But that was unrealistic." She turned to Julie then with a frustrated
sigh. "Why don't you say something?"

"You're doing fine without me."

"All right, then." Raven thrust her hands in her pockets and stalked
to the window. "One of the things I've learned is that if you don't
want to get hurt, you don't get too close. You're the only person I've
never applied that rule to, and you're the only one who hasn't let me
down." She took a deep breath.

"I was infatuated with Brandon years ago. Perhaps it was a kind of
love, but a girl's love, easily brushed aside. It was a shock seeing
him today, especially right after I finished that song. The
coincidence was..." Raven pushed the feelings away and turned back
from the window. "Brandon will come over tomorrow, and he'll say