My heart was beating as I waited for him to answer. I know I thought I didn’t have much to lose but this silence was killing me. “I’d give you ... solid nine.”Am I that attractive to him? His response made my heart skip a beat. I fought hard to keep a smile from appearing on my face, but I ultimately failed. “Why a nine?” I asked. “Well, you’re my good friend and all, and I would rate you a ten, but I think I need to see a bit more before I can arrive to that conclusion,” he said, pretending to. “Are you done?” my roommate asked.“Almost, just gotta brush my teeth,” I said. I scrambled around the bathroom a few more seconds, rinsed my mouth out, and headed out the bathroom door. I crossed by the kitchen and I could see she was in a towel.“Hey there,” she said. “You wanna peek?” I stopped mid-walk and turned to her.“Um…” I stupidly replied. She giggled at me and then unwrapped her towel to reveal her pale, toned body to me.“Interested now?” she asked with a seductive face.“Um...can we. If the East German judge had been awarding marks, he would have received a seven on the scale of 0 to 6. I fell completely in love with him. We wed just over a year after our meeting at the party.At the time of our wedding, I was 24 while Simon was 29. I had started working for a firm of 30 lawyers while Simon was employed by a medium sized software company that he had joined after receiving his university degree in computer engineering. We were both extremely well paid. We bought a house and. I've even gone into the women's room at work once or twice in order to do something about that," she now told me, her inhibitions, if she even really had any, going right out through the window."No shit! You have? Really?" Yes ... really. I know you think I'm this shy, quiet and reserved woman, which at work I've tried to be, at least for the most part anyway. But as you can see ... I'm not at all like that. I've been attracted to you for a while now, and I've been wondering, hoping that.