Chapter 107: Essential Checklist

** Harper **

A few hours later, Harper pulled her purple paisley suitcase out of the closet and stared at its empty insides.

The Chickadees game had passed in a blur. Between playing back in her head everything Eli had said outside the lounge and using the limited breaktimes to fill in Chelsea on the upcoming Hawaii trip, Harper paid little attention to what was happening on the field. Thankfully, Chelsea was being a true friend — although her own enthusiasm over the winning game was almost past the boiling point, she didn't complain about Harper's distracting lack of spirit, and instead poured out heaps of relationship advice whenever she could afford to peel her eyes off of the bat.

Most of the advice, of course, centered on how to get an iron hold of Eli's personal attention during the business vacation.