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though.” He paused, only long enough to bare clenched teeth, as if bracing for Sarah to blow up at him. “I got a call. I need to go and do a job now. The lady said it’s an emergency, and there’s water everywhere.”
    Her father’s open arms exploded apart, demonstrating the catastrophe.
    “You don’t mind shopping for a couple of hours, do you? You can grab a whole wardrobe to last you the rest of the year. For your shiny new job?”
    Sarah waited a moment, and then said, “Oh, sure. Guess I can. It’s late shopping night anyway. I’ll catch a bus back home.”
    Her dad nodded, and his eyes went wide. “Here’s $250. It’s all I’ve got on me. Buy whatever! I know you love to shop.”
    “It’s fine, I’ll use my own money.”
    Her dad shook his head, tutted. “Pfft, don’t be silly.” He thrust the notes into the top of her bag. “You can’t eat through your wage before you’ve even received it. First day celebration treat, from me.”
    Her dad winked, and it was too late to tell him she didn’t feel like shopping, that she hadn’t been out shopping in over a month, and that she didn’t care for it. Her dad was like that; happy to help however he could in the spur of the moment, but never there long-term. Thinking of spur of the moments, she remembered the man and everything that had happened tonight, and whipped her head around to see his calves and shoes below the density of the tree foliage: a still figure with the last of the train’s passengers hurrying by to get to their cars.
    “All right. Sounds good. But here, I don’t need it.” She shoved the money at him and stepped back.
    He sighed then put the money back in his wallet. “New friend from work already?” Her dad nodded in the direction she’d just looked.
    Sarah glanced over her shoulder at him. “Oh yeah. From my team.”
    “You can grab a bite to eat with him, then. Get to know your team members. It’s very important to be friendly with them, since you’ll be with them for most of your days.”
    Sarah agreed, slipping in a quick “bye” and left him. She realised she’d just allowed herself to be free to let this stranger take her home if he offered. How silly would it be to wait at the stop and catch a bus home now?
    The end of her dad’s car had little red dots for brake lights by the time she met up with the man again.
    It was still bright; it never seemed like night in Melbourne during summer. The man was watching her walk the last few steps back, and she felt studied under his eyes. There was something different about his look when she stopped in the same spot as she was before. She couldn’t name what it was.
    “I guess I better leave you to get back to your boyfriend, then.”
    Sarah let out a chuckle, righting herself before saying, “What do you … oh, um that ?” The man nodded. “That was my dad!”
    He barely smiled, as if he knew that the man in the car who’d called her over was never really her boyfriend at all.
    Sarah remembered where they were at before. The way her dad had cut the man off halfway during saying goodbye. “Well you better duck off to the centre, then. Need to get home myself.”
    Sarah had been prepared to walk away without the man caring much about their little game, proving he was just interested in bedding her, but not bothered by the loss. She was even prepared for the disappointment in his eyes as he let her go. She hadn’t been prepared for his response.
    “You’re suggestive.”
    Sarah had taken a step away, but she halted, creasing her eyebrows in confusion at his reply. “I thought I was being normal.”
    “Nope, you suggested that I was going to say goodbye to you.”
    Sarah couldn’t help it then. She bit her lip, but it did her no good. The happiness inside of her spread like the lick of a flame, burning her up with relief. It made her lips turn up into a coy smile. She was a woman. He was a man in a suit, with a face she couldn’t look away from, and a tall,