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She stares fully--drop to my plate and then slide to the empty table next to us

"Does this mean I shouldn’t expect any naked selfies later?" I ask "Or even selfies of you in that bikini?"

"I think you get plenty of selfie texts as it is"

As if to prove her point, my phone buzzes nearvictoriously

Plantingher my most earnest smile "Look, Fresno--"

"Fresno A to oing to rown-ups It’s just food" I pull a chip free and pop it in , "Well, technically it’s just food with a guy who saw you naked a couple nights ago But if you really want me to move, I will"

She blinks away, and I can see a tiny flash of guilt cross her features I’ve seen London interact with other people--she’s bubbly, she cracks jokes and wears a constant smile--so I know this shell she’s built around herself is really about guys and romance, not because she’s an asshole

At least, not really

Looking back at me, she narrows her eyes a little as she studies iant black bean stuck to your front tooth"

Now that she’s pointed it out, I can feel it I grin wider, all teeth "I have to do so to reduce my attractiveness to the ladies It can’t be full steales at this as she takes a bite of her fries "You’re insane"

I lean in, and she laughs harder "Can you believe this is the face of a as as the ether causes her cheeks to flush "Three"

I pull the bean offI reas one, the oh-fuck-oh- one--so I know she is full of shit

"Okay, maybe four," she says with a little wave of her hand And then she looks back up at me, brows drawn "What’s your point?"

I shake my head "I don’t have a point I--"

"Ihotly "What is your point? What is the point of"--she gestures up and down my body--"of all this? The fancy suit and shiny shoes and the fucking hair"

"I just got off work!" I bite back a laugh "Wait, what is the point of s around for the right word, finally co up with "absurd" And I don’t knohat it is about that word, but it thrills usted with iddy

"I don’t think I knohat youdifferent woo Co "Did you alant to be the stereotype?"

"The straight-A, water polo player turned pre-law? Yeah, rough path Scarethe parking lot "Do you drive a Hummer?"

"I drove you home in my Prius," I remind her

She snorts "You had a condoe you if you had a condom in your pocket," I volley back

Her eyes narrow I have a point and she knows it

"And I would have been happy to play video gaht," I add