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I didn’t sleep all night. We hugged and kissed, but we didn’t have sex. So I think that made us both restless. In the morning I got up and had a shower. In the shower I gave myself a pep talk. Just ask. Don’t worry about making a speech, don’t worry about getting it all out in one breath. Just ask.

I dried off and jumped back into bed with him in my undies. We kissed, talked about our trips, and then… the moment. We were lying in bed, staring at each other, smiling. It was my moment.

‘I have a question to ask’ I said.

‘Why is the sky blue?’ he said ‘Well, it’s a culver's menu combination of reflection and refraction…’ it kept going for a while. But when he finished and we stopped laughing, he looked at me and said ‘Sorry, what’s the question?’

I asked him if there was any chance we could try again. He smiled. Initially a happy grin, then an awkward smile.

‘I have to ask, what’s in it for you?’ he said. ‘I’m used to being the smarter, successful one in a relationship, but with you you’re the smartest, the most socially aware, the most successful, you win every category.’

‘Well,’ I said ‘To quote the part of No Strings Attached that made me cry, you can’t help who you fall in love with and it never happens the way it’s, supposed to. And you hold your own in lots of ways’

He said it wasn’t that he felt intimidated by it, but in the same token he didn’t know why I would want to be with him.

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