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already packed for me and she was crying telling me how she didn't want me to find out the way that I did,”
     
    “Wow. Ethan,” Ben's face was completely unreadable. “That's crazy,”
     
    “Yeah,” I stared at the flat screen. “It was for the best as I haven't been happy for awhile. It just blows how it ended,”
     
    Ben's phone dinged breaking the smothering air in the room. I watched him as he picked it up. I could see he was anticipating an argument with Maria over his last text.
     
    “This one's for you,” he tossed the phone into my lap.
     
    “For me? What?” I picked it up and read it.
     
    I need a ride. Will you ask Vanessa to pick me up?
     
    I smiled. “Why is it mine?” I looked at Ben who was smiling mischievously at me. “What?”
     
    “You figure it out,” he stood and stretched with a groan. “I'm hittin' the sack. You decide what it means,”
     
    I watched him walk across the living room, then just like my sister, he disappeared into the bedroom and closed the door. What the hell am I supposed to do about this? Do I text her back? What if I don't and she is in trouble?
     
    Everything okay? Where are you? My fingers automatically typed without my even thinking about it.
     
    Been drinking and need a ride home. Marc left and I stayed to have a bottle, ha! I will be out in front of Guardo's.
     
    I laughed quietly at her text remembering back to my father's birthday party. She was sitting at the mini bar downing glass after glass of whiskey.
     
    On my way...
     
    My fingers lingering above the keyboard.
     
    Beautiful.
     
    I hit send with a smile.
     
    ~
     
    I wasn't sure what was going to happen between Maria and me when I got to my sisters house. For the past two years there wasn't a day that I didn't think about her at least once. The way she smiled, the way her fingertips moved the hair from her face, and the way her voice sounded when she was crying out my name. At my fathers birthday party when I saw her at the mini bar giving the bartender a hard time made me laugh as I watched her. She was beautiful,  sassy, and had a way about her that made me have to introduce myself. The more time I spent talking to her, the more intrigued I became. Having sex with her that night, confirmed to me that love at first sight did truly exist. I felt like a sappy bastard. The next morning when she told me that nothing would ever come from the best night of my life, I was seriously butt hurt. I thought about that girl for weeks on end, waking up in the middle of the night with wood because she was in my dreams. If there was one person I could ask for advice, it would be Ben. I'm just not ready yet to talk about what happened between Maria and I and how I have felt about her for the last two years. I have told no one.
     
    I remember the day that Vanessa called me, telling me that she had a friend that she wanted to hook me up with. I was ecstatic until I met Mystery Girl for dinner with the hopes of it being Maria as Vanessa refused to tell me her name. She didn't want me to Facebook her or anything, she wanted it to be a surprise. My sister didn't have a whole lot of friends, so I was hoping. I took my seat at our reserved table and waited, watching the door intently. I placed my elbow on the sheer table cloth, the classical music giving off a romantic atmosphere. I noticed a pretty green eyed, female walk into the restaurant, her hair was the color of caramel, and her skin was porcelain. She was dressed in a lavender dress that hugged her slender frame. She looked at me, I smiled then never gave her another glance. Maria was far more beautiful than her with long brown hair that sweeps the curves of her back, soft tan skin, beautiful brown eyes, and a perfect body with a killer ass and thighs that you would die just for the chance to touch them... once. I keep my eyes on the door for another moment until a sweet voice interrupts my thoughts of a serious let down. She wasn't coming. I sighed,