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against Spence and smiling up into his eyes. “I was so happy when the producers chose a spot close to home.”
    “Yes, well,” Ben went on. “It worked for a few episodes, but we were picked up for a run of twenty-three episodes for season two. That’s a lot more invasive to the staff and residents at Twin Pines than eight episodes. It could be trouble.”
    “Trouble can always be worked out,” Yvonne said. She reached for her glass. “I think for now we should toast to a promising future for us all.”
    “Hear, hear,” Simon seconded, raising his glass of soda. “To Second Chances.” For the show and for him.
    The group of them toasted with more commentary and fanfare. Simon peeked across the lawn to Jenny once more. She was still talking to Neil, but she glanced over in his direction. Simon smiled and raised his glass to her. Jenny was saved from having a reaction as Daniel grabbed a handful of her hair.
    “Second chances, eh?” Spence said, thumping him on the back. “I know where you’re going with that.”
    “Do you?” Simon laughed. At least Spence wasn’t in danger of losing his balls if he revealed secrets anymore. In fact, he was glad his friend was out of the line of fire. From here on out, this was something between him and Jenny and no one else.
     
    “Come on. This thing is starting to slow down. I want to take you home now,” Neil said. It was his way of trying to end the conversation that had been going around in circles for the last ten minutes.
    “Neil, I can’t just leave,” Jenny sighed. “I’m the maid of honor. I have to be here until Tasha leaves.”
    “Says who?”
    “Says tradition. Besides, she’s my friend.” She huffed and shifted Daniel to her other hip, bringing him between her and Neil. “What’s gotten into you anyhow? You’re usually not this…jumpy.”
    “I’m not jumpy,” he said, “I just don’t like celebrities.”
    “There aren’t that many of them here. Besides, they’re more like friends now,” she argued.
    “Friends?” he snapped. “You mean the friends who are making my life miserable with all their interference at Twin Pines?”
    “What?” She blinked, her growing frustration with him pausing.
    Neil let out a breath. “I got word today that their stupid TV show, Second Chances, got renewed for a second season. That means they’ll be all over the place, bothering residents, pushing the staff around.”
    “Neil, you’re the facility’s accountant, not the administrator. What does it matter to you?” If she had known he would turn into this big of a pain when faced with a little competition from Hollywood, she never would have accepted that first date after Valentine’s Day. She wouldn’t have let her mom talk her into it, except that she’d been super pregnant and feeling alone. And Neil had been so nice. Back then.
    “I don’t know why everyone is so quick to fall all over themselves for these people,” Neil went on. “I can’t believe Jan is letting them film at all.”
    “Dr. Brunswick knows what she’s doing. Haven’t you always told me that?”
    “Yeah, but—”
    “Okay, seriously? Stop. This is my best friend’s wedding. I don’t want to spend the entire reception standing here arguing with you.”
    Neil let out a breath. “Fine. But I don’t want to stick around. Those people make me homicidal.”
    “You’d better be joking about that,” she warned him.
    He relented with a sigh, scrubbing a hand through his hair, messing it up even more. “I’m sorry. You’re right. I’ll chill out. I should leave work at work.”
    “You should.” She smiled at him. Somewhere, under all that childish frustration, he had to be the nice guy that he was for those first few weeks when they started dating, right? That couldn’t have been a fluke. “Why don’t you go talk to Eddie over there. You guys should hang out more.”
    She shooed him away to go talk to Tasha’s cousin, who had been in his class in school. As