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The Guy Next Door - Part Three
Date: 9/23/2015, Categories: Reluctance, Author: SITTING, Rating: 38, Source: LushStories
But I wasn’t good enough for him. Sam was a gentleman. He was thoughtful and effervescent while I was – I was – fast becoming a bad girl. But it was a date. And it was Saturday. After work. Which meant I most certainly would not be showing up at Cooper’s door. The dilemma was over. *** Friday morning rolled around. Throughout the week, I’d purposefully resorted to spending an extra five minutes on my morning run, just so I would avoid Cooper. But that morning he’d figured me out and we ended up meeting on the stairs. “Hey, Kat,” he said breezily. “Oh. Hi.” He stopped in front of me, blocking my path. Suit. Tie. He looked sharp. Clean. “We’re still on for tomorrow, right?” He made it sound like a goddamn business meeting. I stared at him wordlessly. “You didn’t forget, did you?” There was a teasing edge to his voice like he knew there was a zero-percent chance that I would have forgotten. “We’re still on, right?” I snapped out of the zone and shook my head. “Oh – no. Definitely not.” I swallowed hard. “I have a – uh – date.” Cooper’s eyes widened infinitesimally. “Really?” “Yes. Really.” He shrugged. “We can make it later, if you want. Nine? Ten?” I shook my head. “No. No. I just – I don’t think this is a good idea at all.” He studied me and then shrugged. “Fine. I’m gonna be late for work. See you around.” He brushed past me and was gone. *** Sam and I went to Voda, a small, blasé bar that sat unassumingly between a restaurant and a clothes shop. We talked, laughed, edged ...