Reads Randomly

Okay, I finally read this too. I may have read it when you first wrote it but I didn't read it very carefully then. Sometimes I have a pathetically short attention span. I liked reading it this time because I had in mind the conversation we were having about whether or not he felt like he needed to protect her from herself. You have that line in here about how he had to protect her from the rumor mill and himself. I like it, and it is in line with what I was writing abou tthe other day. I'm not sure I agree with every point though, like I don't think I see him as beating himself up as much as he is in this. And it seems you are saying that he thinks she doesn't love him. I don't feel like he was so clear on that... I am of the opinion that he did think she wanted him but at the same time thought he'd be bad for her and felt responsible to protect her from her own poor taste in men(him). Hmmmm... I wonder if when he said she had "no sense about these things" he was in some way talking about her feelings towards him. Of course, in order for that to work you have to buy into my theory that he knew she had feeling for him. Okay, Dee stop reading old fics and analyzing them to death. goodnight!