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Starbucks.
    As he walked to the door he stopped and Sarah looked up at him slowly, starting at his polished black dress shoes all the way up his tailored suit and into his brown eyes.
    “Good morning.”
    “Good morning,” she replied with a smile.
    “Non-fat, no foam latte. Right?”
    “Yes.”
    “We met a couple of weeks ago.”
    “Yes,” Sarah stuttered as she awkwardly stood, knocking the chair under her feet to the ground. “I remember. Café breve?”
    He nodded and gave her a big smile. Sarah thought he was striking in a quiet sort of way. A man who didn’t know how handsome he was.
    “Allow me,” he crooned as he hurried to pick the chair up from the floor.
    “Thank you. I’m Sarah, by the way,” she said as she twisted her body to meet his face. “Sarah Brooks.”
    “Nice to meet you again, Sarah,” he nodded and extended his hand. “I’m Mike Montgomery.”

Tuesday, January 28 th
    L exi pulled her buzzing phone from her back pocket – she only had fifteen minutes left on her shift and then she was off to her ten o’clock class.
    TOM: Good morning. It’s your favorite adorable asshole. Just thinking about you. Actually thinking about how I can convince you to go to dinner with me.
    She smiled. After meeting his sister yesterday morning at the coffee shop she liked Tom even more. He was totally hot but a little unconventional. Lexi had to admit she liked his casual awkwardness as it made him believable. So when she received the text saying, ‘I’m thinking about you’, Lexi knew he really was thinking about her. That made her smile and her stomach turn in nervous knots. Well that and now she knew, at least according to his sister, she was his type.
    Lexi: How do you propose to convince me to go to dinner with you?
    Tom: I can think of a myriad of ways to woo you. The question is which one will work?
    Lexi: Haha. Gotta run. Need to change before class.
    Tom: Which class?
    Lex paused, wondering what he could be thinking.
    Tom: Just wondering how you did on your music classics paper. That’s all.
    Lexi: A
    Tom: Way to go beautiful. Let’s go out and celebrate. What night are you available?
    Lexi: Thursday.
    Lexi waited for his immediate response. When it didn’t come, she became irritated.
    Tom: I can’t do Thursday. I have a thing.
    Lexi: No problem. Guess it’s not meant to be.
    Tom: Pick another night. Any other night.
    Lexi: That was the night I had free.
    Tom: How late will you stay out? Do you have to work early Friday?
    Lexi: Yup.
    Tom: Please pick another night. I have to perform for the music department benefit. It’s not something I can get out of.
    Lexi: I’ll come see you play.
    Tom: You want to?
    Lexi: Would I say that if I didn’t want to?
    Tom: I’ll leave a ticket for you at Will Call.
    Lexi: :)

    Lexi smiled as she thought of Tom on her way to class. Once again she’d get the opportunity to watch him hold his cello and make sweet music.
    Tom wasn’t a lot of things. He wasn’t cool or smooth. He wasn’t popular or a big man on campus. But he was talented and he was handsome, and he made her heart beat just a little bit faster when he was around. She just hoped she could keep her feelings at bay and wouldn’t get hurt. After watching her father walk out on her and her brother, she had no time for that kind of thing.
    She was almost to her 10 a.m. class when she saw him. Her first instinct was to shout his name and wave. But just as she began, a blonde ran behind Tom and grabbed him around the shoulders, screaming with delight.
    “Tom!” she shouted. “Where have you been? How have you been? I miss you,” she whined.
    Lexi stood in amazement and quickly ducked behind a tree in front of a classroom building. Feeling a twinge of jealousy, she immediately wanted to know who the clingy, tacky blonde was. And as she watched Tom smile and engage her in conversation, the jealousy turned to envy.
    “Hey!” Tom shouted.
    “Are you playing this Thursday? Because I’m