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back. It was agonising. I had never been so disappointed in my life. Well, of course I had, but it didn’t feel like it now.
    ‘ Oh god!’ he exhaled. ‘I apologize again. I have problem restraining myself when I’m near you. Sometimes I think you have spellbound me. Like when you didn’t agree to me coming at first. I was going mad. I am used to go for the things I want, and I’m used to getting it. I needed to see you. To see if you were as magnificent as I remembered. And here I am, unable to keep my hands off you. I’m sorry…’ his words trail off as I held up my hands to stop his tirade. What he said didn’t make sense, and didn’t sound real. And it didn’t do me any good to hear them. I was going to have enough agony as it was when he left.
    ‘ I think Anna is waiting for you,’ is all I manage to say.
    He stepped away from me, towards the door. He paused with his hand on the knob, about to say something. Then he changed his mind, and turned to leave.
     
    I hadn’t known I was holding my breath until I exhaled, leaning against the back of the door. My mind tried to contemplate what just happened. Is he insane? This is twice now that he keeps seducing me . Me! Ok, maybe I was begging for it, but still. Me! And I hadn’t forgotten about the wife. I should be ashamed of myself. I tried to be. But then I remembered the taste of him, and the shame didn’t stand a chance. I wanted him. I didn’t care that he belonged to anyone else. If I could have him, I wasn’t strong enough to say no. But this whole thing was surreal. I had seen his wife. And I could see myself in the hallway mirror. It wasn’t a contest. I’m a nobody. A nobody who wanted him. He is not yours to have , I try to argue myself. It didn’t help. I didn’t care.
    My body s unk to the floor, and I stayed there revisiting the last few minutes. I tried not to focus on the almost-kiss. He started with an apology. That was a waste of time… My eyes focus on the wall in front of me. Why did he stop in the middle of a sentence? Alongside the mirror hang a message board. It wasn’t much on it, besides my mantra ‘Make it Work’, a postcard from Norway, and the invitation to Kiro’s party. That reminded me. Kiro was throwing a costume party on Friday, and I still didn’t have an outfit. I went to get my phone, to call Alice and ask if she would help me. I was desperate need for some distraction.

Chapter 3
     
    «Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.»
- Mark Twain
     
     
    Lara Croft entered the par ty following a female version of Obi-Wan Kenobi. I was wearing a black tank top and some shorts that were way too short. A belt of sculls was locked around my waste. I had a gun strapped around my left thigh and a knife around my right. Black leather boots went up to my knees. The hair was firmly braided, and my make-up was dark. It was over-the-top. Alice had taken me to a costume store not far from Leicester Square. The shop sign had said the store had 35,000 costumes on storage, too much to choose from. Everything I tried on looked too stupid, too big, or too unflattering. I didn’t like costumes. It was Alice that insisted on the Tomb Raider outfit, after an hour of trying different things. It looked fine in the store. Now, I felt a little naked, especially after handing over my jacket by the entrance.
     
    We were fashionably late, and the party was on the roll. I saw Fred Flintstone hitting on Catwoman just inside the double doors. I recognised both of them, and hoped Tina would get of her high horse and give Matthew a chance. She has been stringing him along all semester. Further in, I saw Cleopatra, some action heroes, a bug, and several not so original Scream masks. People were rallying by a large square red bar, and ordering something took forever. I let Alice in the front, she was much better at getting the bartenders attention than I was. She got us two beers each, and led us to a table by the dance