Best Friends — Judith Arnold

Richard Alonzo Reed was doing it again

Having watched her buddy fall in love a zillion times, Samantha shouldn't have panicked at the telltale signs she observed while visiting Lonny's home in Spring Lake, New Jersey. But how else could she react when, for the very first time, Lonny was falling for her?

As Lonny reminisced about their college days -- Samantha remembered she was fat -- and threw her long, searching glances -- they made her self-conscious Samantha told herself that this, too, would pass -- hopefully, before Lonny discovered her feelings for him. Otherwise, love was going to ruin a perfectly good friendship.