"I was told this afternoon that our destination will be visible in a few hours, and the Bridge has an even better view than the observation deck."Marl... looked at her roommate, Beth, silently inquiring.'I don't mind if you don't, ' Beth thought back to her."Sure," Marla said to Elaine, "It'll be fun!" Where's Béla, anyway?" Beth asked, hungrily curious."She's finishing the afternoon watch by herself. She's on the Bridge now," Elaine replied. "I was studying with father."That was code for 'I was. I'm not into you." You're cute when you lie, Sam." Kelly chuckled, leaning forward and planting her elbow on the table. She rested her cheek on her hand and blew a kiss at Sandy."I'm NOT lying." Yes, you are. You don't push me away, you send out all the signals that say, 'I totally want to take you to a room and fuck your brains out', and you are totally trying to deny it." Kelly smiled again, her expression becoming positively predatory."But you've been ... you already have ... two guys,. I threw on a pair of trunks and a ratty T-shirt and headed for the beach, with the vague thought of swimming until dark. But as I was crossing the wooden bridge that protected the dunes, I saw her strikingly sexy profile. She was straight ahead of me and strolling in the direction of a distant fishing pier. I didn't make a conscious decision to follow her. But as I approached the lapping waves I made a right turn on the flat, wet sand and matched her languid pace. This was some girl. She was. It was sweet.“Um ... Things seemed off today. I don’t know how to explain it. It’s like, all of a sudden, I don’t belong there. You know? The classes are the same as they were last week but I’m thinking they’re really pointless.”“What did you do in DC?”“Well ... I proposed to Rachel, Livy, and Desi, I guess. But we’ve been talking about that for weeks. We’d have done it while we were all together on tour but we just weren’t able to get the rings together. You’ve got the first weekend of April.