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Asher needs to come inside with me to fulfill his part of our bet from earlier today.”
    I grumble, but then start laughing. I had forgotten all about what she had won in our last bet. I stand up and move my guitar to my back. Then I reach for Becca’s hand and help her stand up. “We’ll be in the game room if anyone needs us.” I start thinking about what I want to grab to eat before being subjected to the great and powerful Doctor Who .
    But two words that Becca said keep repeating themselves in my head. Our song . And even though it’s my parents’ song, and she probably didn’t mean it that way, maybe it can be our song too.
    Or maybe we can find a new song, all our own.

Chapter Six
     
     
    Becca
     
    I finally made Asher drag his happy hind end back into the cabin after we were done singing around the campfire. I know he’s not looking forward to watching Doctor Who with me, but I told him since he’s never actually watched it before, he’s not allowed to make any more judgments about it to me. At least, not until after the three episodes I make him watch tonight. Nobody else really knows this, but Doctor Who and library books are what have been getting me through the last few months. I guess when you sort-of alienate your friends for a guy, they don’t put their lives on pause, waiting for you to come back around. And it’s not like I wanted to sit around and gush to them about all the crap that had happened to me while I was dating Trip. In fact, I’d rather keep that all to myself, thanks. So I continued to hang out alone.
    It’s only 9:30 right now, so we should be able to finish the episodes by about midnight or so, which really isn’t that late for us. We used to pull all-nighters at church lock-ins together, and we even stayed up all night once to cram before a humanities test last year. So this should be no problem.
    I already know which episode we’re going to watch first. It’s the first episode that I was told to watch, and I’ve been hooked ever since. I turn around as I hear Asher clunking down the stairs. He walks into the room, his arms (and the pocket of his hoodie) loaded with television-watching sustenance.
    “I’ve got popcorn, Twizzlers pull-n-peel, chocolate covered raisins, two Diet Cokes, and I even brought you a little surprise.” He pulls the popcorn bowl off of a smaller bowl to reveal melty, gooey nacho cheese. I’m pretty sure I now have the dorkiest grin ever on my face.
    “Where did you get that?” I ask, wondering how on earth he could have not only gotten his hands on it, but also remembered that’s how I liked to eat my popcorn.
    “Well, when your mom gave my mom a list of everything that was already up here for us to do over this nice, long week, she mentioned that there were a few gaming systems hooked up, and Wi-Fi. So I knew we would have access to Netflix while we were here. I didn’t know for sure that it would happen, but on the off-chance that we would be watching a movie this week, I thought I’d bring it, and some popcorn, with me.”
    “How did you even remember that? We haven’t seen a movie together in what, a year? Not since our whole youth group went to the drive-in in New Haven last summer.”
    “Ah, but don’t you remember? They had to figure out how much they were going to charge you for the extra cheese. Nobody had ever asked them for a side of nacho cheese with their popcorn before.”
    “That’s right! But still, I can’t believe you remembered that well enough to come prepared for me to want it this week.”
    “Well, there are a lot of things I came prepared for this week. Did you forget? I was a boy scout for a whole three months when I was eight. And a boy scout is always prepared for anything.” I don’t know what he means by that , but I have a feeling I’m going to find out over the next few days.
    All of a sudden, Livvie pops into the room. I didn’t even hear her coming down the stairs. “What are you guys