"She did. Totally odd lips," he mumbled. True, Sam had stared at more than her lips, but not much. And he didn't want Coraline to think he had been staring much at those other things too. Mostly he didn't want her to think he looked at other girls much, because that would somehow completely ruin the secret crush on her that he had and she didn't know about.

"And you can't be Fezzik. He was a big, smelly, not super attractive dude. And of course I won't let anything happen to you."

It was almost a flippant line, but Sam gave it with the conviction of someone who had done outrageous things to protect other people.

"Here's the turn off for our surprise," he said, taking one of the turns down what looked to be the entrance way to a very exclusive, gated community.