She had left her legs bare, and if he wasn__ mistaken, they had a slight sheen. He realized she__ caught him staring when she cleared her throat.__re your legs...sparkly?_ he managed to ask, feeling the need to explain since he__ been caught leering.__y body lotion has a little bit of glitter in it,_ she said with a trace of diffidence.She seemed apologetic. For what, he had no idea.

The bathroom__ down the hall if you want to take off your tights. I can throw __m in the dryer for you if you want. Or, you can hang them on the shower curtain rod._ He turned. __t__been a long time since I__e had a woman__ tights draped over my rod._ A quick wink and he was gone before she could do anything more than gape.

He returned in a moment with a phone, a high-end model that probably cost way more than hers. His cell phone wallpaper was an abstract artwork with lots of colorful circles and blots__andinsky, maybe, or Miro? She always got thosetwo confused. She gave him points for not having a picture of some scantily-clad woman thrusting her boobs at the camera, like Steve had on his phone. Tacky. Nude-woman wallpapers were the cell phone equivalent of silver naked-lady mud flaps, in her opinion.

But there__ more. When I was on my way to the event today, Carolyn texted me and told me that Steve and Eve got married over break. Six months after he broke up with me, and after he kept telling me he didn__ see marriage inhis future! And did I tell you that he broke up with me at the school, during the Fitness Fun-a-Thon fundraising eventwe worked at?_ Her face grew reflective. __ was handing out bottled water when he asked me to go behind the hydration station so he could talk to me privately. The whole time, Eve kept staring at us from the finish line of the three-legged race.She knew I was getting dumped before I did.

He__ been fighting a lot on the Midwest circuit, but Vegas is the big-time. If he ever wants to get anywhere, he has to fight here. And since we__e here, we thought we__ get married, since Vegas is so romantic.__vy could think of a dozen cities more romantic than Vegas__kron, Ohio came to mind__ut she didn__ argue.

Hey, I__ an art lover,_ protested Ramirez. __ love Thomas Kinkade. Painter of Light, you know what I__ sayin_?__everly__ smile froze. __es, quite.