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her long, auburn hair, and like me, she works too much to meet men.
    “He has blonde hair and green eyes like yours. He’s really smooth. He might as well have a blinking sign on his forehead that says ‘sexual master,’ especially with a body like his.”
    “Bryn , he’d eat you alive. You don’t have the experience for someone like that. Weren’t you a little scared?”
    “Y es, but he was too exciting to turn down?”
    “What do you mean turn down ? Did he ask you out?” Andrea is really getting into this. My sex life is nonexistent, and hers isn’t much better.
    “H e asked me to go to dinner, but then he may expect sex, so I said lunch instead. He wants me to bring him sweets from the bakery.”
    “ That’s exciting, Brynlee.”
    “He kissed my cheek, and it wasn’t the friendly kind, Andrea, but more like he was trying to give me a taste of what he could do to me. ”
    “Oh, girl, i t’s smart you’re meeting him somewhere public. Let’s break open that wine and celebrate. Then you need to share whatever else it was you wanted to talk about.”
    My mood will go down the toilet if I tell her about Drew, and this is the most exciting thing to happen to me in a long time. “It was nothing. Let’s eat, drink and watch some TV.”

Drew
     
    I stare at the text message from Brynlee. I imagine I hurt her feelings not inviting her over to hang out. She never mentioned seeing the guy she went home with from the bar again, and I don’t believe she’s been on any dates since.
    I’ve tried to put some distance between us for a f ew months now, hoping to get over her, but it’s impossible. The seconds, minutes and hours of my days without Brynlee in them are depressing. I miss being as close as we were.
    My doorbell rings, and I notice I’ve been staring at her message for a while .
    “ Hey, Ian. How are ya, man? Get in here.” My longtime friend comes in with beer in his hand. Ian and I have a lot of catching up to do, so it was another reason I didn’t invite Brynlee over.
    “I’m fantastic and g lad to be back home. Law school sucked.”
    “Yeah, but you’re finally finished. I’m sure that feels awesome. I don’t know how you stood it. When we got our bachelors, I was done with college.”
    “It does feel good. Maybe now my damn parents will get off my back . I did what they wanted, so they need to leave me alone. I brought beer.” Ian holds the case up.
    “Thanks . I’ll put it in the fridge.”
    I grab us a couple first, and w e sit in the living room to catch up. He’s been one of my closest friends since we started high school. We were also roommates in college, but then he went to New York to attend Columbia law school like his father.
    I t’s been hard for us to stay in touch with all the studying he had to do and the fact I was managing the coffee shop. I’ve been looking forward to him moving back.
    It’ ll help take my mind off of Brynlee. OK, that’s not going to happen, but I’ll at least have something to do when I’m not seeing her.
    “So, are you joining your dad’s firm?”
    “What do you think?”
    I chuckle. “I’m sorry, man. I couldn’t resist.”
    “Now that I’ll have Dad relaxing some, I’m sure Mom will be on my case to find a wife.”
    “I wondered if you’d met someone at Columbia.”
    “Hell, if there’s a chick in New York that will move to Oregon, I sure didn’t find her, but I already have a date tomorrow,” he says, grinning.
    “You’ve only been home a few days. I don’t know how you do it.”
    “I just met her at the liquor store.”
    “I don’t know about that . What if she’s an alcoholic?” I smile at him, but I’m only half joking.
    “No, she looked about as innocent as they come, and you know that’s my favorit e kind. She was struggling to pick out wine.”
    “Some things never change. I see you haven’t.”
    “Are you seeing anyone?” he asks.
    “No.” I take a long drink of my beer.
    “Some things never