Wh-What are you doing here A?

She stood at the doorway not saying a word and I suddenly felt completely under-dressed. Pale green eyes glinting in the lamplight watched me squirm uncomfortably in my seat. In a movement that seemed quicker than the increasing rapidness of my heart, her beautiful face was mere inches from my own; hands held firmly to my shoulders, heat radiating underneath delicate fingertips. “I know you think you want this. You want me, but you don’t. You wouldn’t like me if you knew the real me. You would lose interest and then where would be?”

My mouth dropped open, but I couldn’t say anything. “I uh… you uh.”

Appleanna’s eyes softened, revealing that soft center I knew had been there all along. “You’re a good friend Cosmic. Lets not ruin that.”