The line between friendship and love can sometimes become blurred. Sal, Major, and Abby have a complex relationship. When Major and Abby call off their engagement and Major announces he’s leaving the country, Sal is devastated and wonders if he’s to blame.<br><br>Five years later, Major returns in time to find Sal obsessed with tracking down a stranger he flirted with at a stoplight. Wanting nothing more than for his friend to find true love, Major agrees to help in the search. The two enlist Abby, as well.<br><br>Somewhere along the line, the trio becomes a quartet, old feelings resurface, old wounds are healed, and everyone learns where love really is.

Red Light, Green Eyes, True Blue

“Yes. We’d been out alone five times, maybe seven or eight. He was walking me back to the dorm and suggested we go off campus to get drunk or something. I told him no. Later, I…I shouted it. No.” This time, she barely whispered. “He wouldn’t stop. From a friendly invitation to…anger and force. We were right in the open, it seemed. The lights were actually blinding. I remember that. But no one else was there. He threw me against the wide concrete banister that went up the side of the steps to the door. It was tall enough to cover us, and solid, so no one could see. One hand on my throat, his other one went for my skirt.”


When Abby paused again, even the crickets seemed silenced. The only sound was from her feet moving slowly back and forth in the water.


Chapter 58