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He looked down at ot lost in their green depths again, waiting to hear what he would say

Like, for instance, Your EX-boyfriend, Kaitlyn Whichyou damn well please

I KNEW that hat he was going to say

Or, You can tell yourself anything you want, Kaitlyn, but we both knohat this is

Or, Maybe I want it to be a date

Or, You really think that paying for your food is going to change anything that’s going on here?

Or –

“Okay,” he shrugged

Oh

Hadn’t expected that

“…yeah?” I asked, a little stunned

“Sure I understand,” he said, and gave me a friendly smile

“Oh… okay… cool,” I said, not quite understanding why I felt so deflated

I reached into my purse, pulled out a five, and held it out to him

“Yours was about eight bucks,” he said calmly “With the fries and drink”

I paused – and then, slightly annoyed, I pulled another three dollars out

“Plus tax,” he added “So… another fifty cents should do it”

I stared at him openly now, even more irritated

“Fine,” I muttered, and reached back into my purse –

“Jeez, I’hed, and pulled the five out ofbehind the ones

Now I really was flustered

“Hey, I owe you this!” I said, holding out the dollar bills

“You paid for the movie”

“So?”

“So you better keep it, or you’d have to tell your boyfriend you took me out on a date,” he said with that insufferable (oh so sexy) grin of his

Damn you, Derek –

“You’re taking the three dollars,” I said

“Then you’re going to have to put them in my pocket yourself,” he srab a table

Gritting my teeth, I stuffed the dollars back in my purse

And tried really, really hard not to watch his ass as he walked away

I tried even harder not to i the dollar bills into his back pocket… and what it would feel like with ainst his firm ass…

I failed miserably

20

As advertised, though, we did just talk about the movie

At first

“What’d you think?” he asked as our food came and we started to chon