“hey…do you want to go out tonight?” I asked her and she looked up from a record

“yeah…I’d love that” she said then I smiled at her and she smiled back as if she needed my approval to do so. And she started to put some stuff away “are you coming?”

“well I have to finish my work…” she told me

“what do you have to do?” I asked her walking towards her

“alphabetize these albums by name and genre” she said

“need help?” I asked

“uh…sure” she said smiling then I went over by her

“okay I’ll start down here” I said sitting on the floor in front of her and I grabbed a stack of albums and went through them going by name and everything “can I take some of these?” I asked her

“uh no” she said laughing

“rip off” I replied laughing then she was standing behind me with her knees locked looking through some albums on a shelf and then I pushed the back of her knee in and she almost fell

“not cool” she said kneeing me in the back and I was laughing “nice to know you’re still five”

“beats being twenty six” I told her then she sat down on the floor with me with a stack of stuff “so why are we doing this?”

“we’re doing this whole music issue on the greats and our music guy wants these organized and if I do it right then I’ll get my promotion” she said with a huge smile on her face

“ooh big time PR” I said making fun of her then we sat there for a little longer

“so…why’d you come here?” she asked me

“uh…because I finally realized how stupid I was being…” I told her “…and you gave me a chance and I messed it up, and I want to try and get that chance back”

“you never messed up that chance Ashley…” she told me resting her hand on mine then I looked up into her eyes and she looked into mine “…you said you wanted to go out tonight?” she asked not blinking

“staying here is fine” I said leaning in to kiss her and her hand quickly found the back of my neck and held me there, but she really didn’t need to make I wasn’t going to leave because once my lips touched hers…I wasn’t going anywhere.