Chapter Twenty-Nine

“So all of your readers think you’re out with Brian right now?” Cora asked.

I nodded. “Yep, I’ve duped them all into thinking Brian is a real person that loves me just the way I should be loved. It’s too bad I had to make all that up, though, isn’t it.”

“Whatever. I think it’s fine.” Cora just shrugged. “But I have to ask you an important question, Harper.”

“What is it?” I asked, a little nervous.

Cora turned to the side and set her jaw, making a serious face. “Do I look like a Brian to you?”

I busted out laughing. Her goofy antics got me every time.

“You know, you actually do!” I exclaimed. “You make a perfect Brian! Wow, I’m one lucky girl to be on a date with such a handsome man.”

“Aw, thanks!” she said, as she turned back to face me and grinned. “If I talk like this does it make me sound like a Brian, too?”

She lowered her voice as much as possible and crinkled her eyebrows together. I was laughing so hard that tears were streaming down my face. The good kind of tears, though, not