chapter twelve there were many reasons why this date-plus-one should have been mortifying : the fact that ty got to meet a guy she 'd liked enough to have dinner with ; that she had to explain to dave that ty was accompaning them to the restaurant for business reasons ; that the owner of the packed restaurant had no trouble whatsoever finding a larger table for `` the great ty calhoun and his friends '' even though there was a two-hour-wait out on the sidewalk ; and that dave was quite possibly the world 's biggest outlaw fan and knew every significant play ty had made since college , seemed to have memorized their playbook , and had n't so much as looked at julie after she 'd opened the door .