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I take the stool next to her and rest my forearms on the table Olivia is silent for a while as she works, taking long-ste them into the basket I stand up fro

"What’s holding the flowers in place?"

"Just some foam block that I’ve taped into the bottom," she says "It holds water to keep the flowers fresh"

Sitting back on the stool, I continue to watch as she tucks flowers in all around, slowly building up the arrange "It’s beautiful You’re really talented"

"You’re sweet," she says as she cuts her eyes over toif it’s because she’s glad that I’ the latter, although she doesn’t seem put out that I showed up announced and totally invaded her work space

"So…tonight," I say casually "I was thinking about having dinner atup soes of the basket "You can cook?"

"U up or order in"

"Where do you live?" she asks curiously

"In Raleigh"

"Gosh…I’d hate to have you takeht"

"Easy enough to solve…just stay the night with me"

Olivia turns and cocks an eyebrow atnonchalantly "Sure…why not? I slept over at your place last night, you stay at , Olivia stands fro a critical eye to the arrange this notion of a sleepover at your place, but how about I follow you there so you don’t have to bring entlemanly of me if I were to let you drive to our date," I tell her