"Well, as I was saying."Well, as I was saying...Whats with you and Steve?" She tensed as my poorly worded question rolled from my tongue. "I don't know. We have been..." She looked up, glanced quickly around and continued "...hanging out together for a while but nothing else going on...we are good friends." Sigh, I thought to myself. 'Just good friends' doesn't cause a reaction like that. The eyes may be able to fool me, but the back muscles will NEVER lie. I decided to let it go for now. Hell, I was making progress right here and now, I didn't have time to think about Steve's indecision. "Sorry, didn't mean to bring up a bad topic" I said, and leaned forward to give her a long hung. Again she leaned against me and hugged my hands and arms closer to her body. "That's ok. Its not that bad of a topic. Just a little touchy about it." "Why?" "Well, here I am sitting in your arms talking about Steve... Doesn't that make you a little nervous?" "No, Steve is a good friend. We share everything....EVERYTHING", I said giving her a little squeeze for emphasis. "Yeah, right." "No, really, didn't he tell you" "No, he didn't" "Ok, well I'm just joking. |