Yvette opened it, and Laura swooped inside. Yvette closed the door and locked it. The office was dark."My heart is beating so fast," Laura confessed."...ine too," Yvette smiled."But mostly because I'm scared." Me too. Isn't it exciting?" We've been caught before." We won't be this time. I locked the door. Kiss me, Laura. We haven't kissed for weeks."They nearly devoured one another, standing by Rhonda's huge desk. Laura thought Yvette was going to swallow her tongue, she was so aggressive."I want. He took my queue, and sat quietly at the other end. ‘So,’ we said at the same time, and laughed. I relaxed a little, and turned toward him, being careful to keep my jacket clutched around my chest. ‘Thanks for having me over,’ I said quietly, not wanting to disturb the dark calm of the room. ‘Thanks for coming over,’ he said in almost a whisper as his gorgeous crystal blue eyes met mine. My stomach flip flopped, and I looked down to hide a blush. It was amazing, here I was a sensible twenty. The glare on the mirror blocks her eyes. Not her lips. There’s a small wooden box covered with Rhine stones in front of her; silvery and gleaming it holds her most cherished possessions. Eyeliner, lipstick, masquera, and blush in every color from saffron to platinum, to black or purple.The multi-colored bits of plastic and painted wood pencils jostle and shift when she reaches in to grab a few tubes of lipstick; fuschia, yellow and purple. After a few minutes her lips are glossy and sticky. "Outback?" And Daddy," she added, dropping her eyes to the floor.For just a second I hated her and remembered last year again, when she'd set up a meeting for me with her Dad. But I also remembered how he'd brought her to Tacoma and how I'd slept in her arms. She wanted her dad to be part of her life. And right now, hopefully forever, I was her life. But even more, she was my life, and if that came with baggage, I just had to deal."Cool," I said with a smile.Tami's head snapped up and she.