Hard, heavy music stomped out of the speakers."Yeah, fine. Why?" Ryan looked up from her notebook and turned the music down. While Brody was out with ...is teammates, she was trying to get a handle on preparing for the tour. Since coming back from dinner the night before, she'd been in a lousy mood so she hadn't even bothered working on any songs."How did dinner go last night?" Swell. They thought he was great." Well, that's good, isn't it?"Ryan shrugged. "Better than the alternative, I guess. I. In retrospect, I feel guilty for pulling the same crap that boys always use to pressure girls into a physical relationship. Neither of us was a virgin, so I guess I just assumed that she didn't trust me enough to share with me what had been shared with others. We kept on dating and a week before I went back home for the break, we did make love and I felt that become closer than I'd ever been with anyone in my life. I knew then that I had found the woman with which I wanted to spend the rest of. Pulling over under the protective canopy of a huge Valley Oak tree, she allowed the dust to settle before opening the front windows and turning off the car’s engine. Had it just been a week since she was there? Her perception of time seemed to mimic a child pace running up and down the sides of small hills: labouring to climb the leading edges, slowing at the tops, then plunging down the back slopes, using momentum to propel up the side of the next one. Similarly, time seemed to hurry forward. You let your eyes be like razors, slicing her clothes off to get to the skin underneath. "Oh, I've been watching you for a long time, Vega."She licks her lips, turning away from you and hurriedly crossing to her bag, brown leather slumped in a chair by the wall."Ever since you got here, really." Your hand runs over the metal ridges of the chairs as you walk towards her, cold under your fingers. "And the whole time, I've thought one thing." You stop, body almost touching Tori's, and she backs.