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You look up as you hear the door open, watching her walk in. You smile softly and tell her that her girlfriend has gone to sleep. She nods.

“Cool, I think we've seen the last of the guys,” she says, walking over to the table.

“Oh I wouldn’t be so sure, there’s still like what four minutes of girls night out left,” you retort.

You watch her as she takes a drink from the beer bottle she just picked up. “I’ve had enough of girls, and guys,” she says, sounding exasperated.

“There’s an old horror movie on,” you tell her, trying to take her mind off things.

She glances at the television...

You walk along the pier with her, hand in hand, as the wind blows softly. You look over at her and notice how beautiful she looks in the setting sun. You pause briefly and push a stray hair behind her ear and she pulls you in for a kiss. You still can’t believe how undeniably attracted you are to her. If you’d been asked a month ago if you’d ever hook up with a girl, it would have been an emphatic ‘no.’ But then again, a month ago, you didn’t know her as anything other than Seth’s boss and sometime girlfriend.

“Hey, Maris,” she says, breaking your thoughts. You smile at her...