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both got in he said,
    “You were just checking out my ass, weren’t you?”
    Eva rolled her eyes and shook her head, but the truth was, she was checking out his ass and it wasn’t the first time.

Chapter 5
    A fter driving for another hour or so, Marshall and Eva decided that driving all the way to Asheville in one night would be a little much since it was already getting so late. From Wilmington to Asheville was about three-hundred and fifty miles.
    “What about Florence?” Eva said, looking at the map for a good place to stop for the night.
    “Where’s that?” Marshall asked.
    “It looks like if we stay on Route 95 we’ll run into it in another half hour or so. It’s about the halfway point to Asheville.”
    “Okay, maybe you should start calling about a hotel room for the night then. The later it gets, the harder it might be to get one along the coast line.”
    Eva pulled up all the hotels in Florence online and began calling them. The first two she called were booked up. The next one only had one room with a single bed. The next one only had one room also, but it at least had two double beds. She had them on speaker phone and Marshall was nodding, telling her to take that one. Eva booked it and after she hung up she said,
    “I don’t think us staying in the same room will make your girlfriend happy.”
    Marshall shrugged, “She’ll live,” he said. “We’ve been friends since we were twelve, if we were going to sleep together, we would have done it by now, right?”
    Eva snorted and said, “Yeah, right.”
    She was still holding out hope that someday Marshall would come to his senses and realize that his best friend was all he ever really needed. If that happened, she’d be the happiest girl in the world. If it didn’t happen…well, at least she still had her best friend.
    Marshall sang along with his country music and Eva played around online on her phone the rest of the drive. She saw that she had a new message from Helen. It said,
    “When you get to Asheville, don’t forget to check out the hot air balloons. There is nothing more romantic than breakfast in a hot air balloon.”
    Eva smiled when she read it, then she wrote back,
    “Thanks Helen, I’ll check it out. Although, since Marshall and I are just friends, I’m not sure that “romantic” is what we’re looking for.”
    “I know dear, it was just a figure of speech,” Helen wrote back. But the seed had been planted in Eva’s head. The idea of doing something romantic with Marshall really did appeal to her, even if he didn’t realize it was romantic.
    “I think this is the exit, right?” Marshall said, bringing her out of her fantasies.
    Eva looked at the map again,
    “Yeah, this is it,” she said. “Go right at the stop sign and the hotel is about half a mile up on the right.”
    “Marina Inn?” he asked.
    “That’s it,” she said. Eva was looking at the Inn as they drove into the parking lot. It was gorgeous. She could see the Neuse River on the far side of the parking lot. It looked like it ran right along behind the hotel. There was a huge lawn on one side of the property that just looked like a serene little park area and on the other side was an outside bar marked with huge wooden Tiki statues. It was, of course called “The Tiki Bar” and it had a sign that boasted “live entertainment.”
    Marshall parked and they left their luggage in the car while they went inside to register. They found out that their room was a one bedroom suite with a view of the river and a large balcony. Eva found herself getting excited, it had been way too long since she’d been anywhere, and she had never been anywhere like this before.
    Marshall paid for their room, refusing to take any of Eva’s money. Then the bell man followed them out to their car to get the luggage. When they approached the car, the bell man let out a low whistle.
    “Oh my God, she is a beauty!”
    Marshall grinned, proudly, “Yes she is,” he said, “My