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prefer to be a mime, who am I to stop u?
    Mateo reached out to grab the phone back, but Audra pulled it back, shaking her head. She was determined to make him speak first, and the challenge was slightly exciting. He started to pretend he was in a box with hand gestures causing her to chuckle. Mateo smiled widely, and his piercing started to gleam in the dim light. Audra started to lean in closer, inspecting the piercing, before she realized how awkward it looked. Mateo raised his brow in question.
    She point ed to his lip piercing, concerned. He shook his head indicating that it hadn’t hurt. Audra lifted her hand pointing to his mouth and made the talking gesture. Mateo smirked and shook his head. She made the pleading gesture with her hands and batted her eyes at him. He chuckled, still shaking his head. Audra couldn’t think of anything else to get him to talk, so she pulled out her phone again.
    Mean!
    Mateo leaned back against the couch with a sigh. “I’m not.”
    “Mean or a mime?”
    “Neither,” he replied.
    A bunch of questions plague d her mind now that he was finally talking, but it felt strange to bring it all up now. Even if they were alone in the room, he didn’t have to answer to her for anything, but she couldn’t curb the need for answers. Audra turned to face him completely.
    “I saw you ,” she stated matter-of-factly.
    “Saw what?”
    “Thursday night. What were you doing walking so late at night?” Audra asked.
    Mateo look ed straight ahead towards the backyard instead of looking at her. She wasn’t sure if he was going to answer or not, but at least she mentioned it. An awkward tension started to rise between them.
    “You weren’t wearing a jacket. You could have gotten sick ,” she continued.
    He start ed to laugh darkly in response. “It wasn’t that cold.”
    “Do you do that often?”
    “I have insomnia. The walking helps me sleep,” Mateo explained.
    Audra look ed down at her lap. Should she bring up that she saw him in the police car? She barely knew him; he had no reason to lie but no reason to be honest either. She bit the inside of her cheek trying to decide.
    “I saw you…talking to a police officer.”
    The words managed to come out as awkwardly as she thought them. She couldn’t think of how to clear that up so she wasn’t accusing him of something. She wasn’t sure how he’d take it, but now it was too late.
    Mateo sipp ed his drink not looking at her. “I had to take care of something.”
    The growing silence was awkward as she wished she had kept her mouth shut. The information he gave was vague but she was still a stranger to him. He had no reason to trust her or give her that type of information. She looked down at her hands trying to get it together.
    “What time does your game start?” he asked.
    “It’s at three. You don’t have to come if you don’t want to.”
    “I don’t have anything else to do,” Mateo advised.
    “Thanks a lot ,” Audra complained with a smirk.
    He laugh ed, starting to stand up, reaching a hand to her. She took it and followed him to the door, heading into the backyard. They silently breathed in the fresh night air, listening to the sounds of the night. Audra remembered the cold gusts of wind that assaulted her on the walk here and was glad to see that it had retired for the evening. It wouldn’t be such a terrible trip home. She looked down and noticed that she was still holding his hand. The warmth was comforting, an unaggressive connection between them.
    Audra swallow ed hard as she looked up toward the moon lighting up the yard before them. Her heart started to quicken against her will. Holding hands with a practical stranger shouldn’t be causing such a reaction. She shouldn’t be enjoying the time alone together as much as she was. She glanced at Mateo to find him looking intently back at her. A look of curiousness upon his features enhanced one of his best attributes, his gray eyes.
    “What are you doing out