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herself blushing and was grateful for the dark.
    "Let me walk her to her car," Kelly said, "be right back."
    "Okay man."
    They walked swiftly to her car and then Kelly kissed her again, wrapping both of his arms around her this time.  Holly was disappointed when he pulled away.
    "Good night," he said as he opened her car door for her.
    "Bye," she replied.
    She glanced back over at the cab.
    "Go," he said, "I don't want you sitting here in your car alone."
    "Okay," she said and pulled away from him.
    Her purse vibrated before she was a block away but she didn't reach for the phone.  She still, occasionally, had nightmares about the accident.  It was strange how she seemed to remember more of it in her dreams then she had immediately afterwards, and although she wondered, more than once, if her visions were real or the result of an overactive imagination, driving still made her nervous.  The idea of taking her eyes off the road, to paw through her purse, was out of the question.   Twenty minutes later, when she had parked the car in front of her house, she pulled out her phone immediately.  The text said, "Call me when you get home if you want".
    She called him before she got out of the car.  He waited while she opened the door, then again when she brushed her teeth and got ready for bed.  She waited while he went through security and boarded his flight.
    Two hours later they were still on the phone together when they both fell asleep, Holly alone in her bed and Kelly on his flight back to LA.

Chapter 13
     
    "So, how long are you in town for?"
    Kelly looked up.  He had heard the question, but he didn't want to answer it.  He wanted the flight attendant to leave him alone.  He yanked one of the earbuds out of his ear.
    "Did you say something?" he said.
    "Yes, I was wondering how long you were in town for?"
    "Just for one day," Kelly said, which was the truth, sort of.
    He had told Holly he would fly home tomorrow, Sunday, but the truth was his flight home was booked for Friday.  He was hoping she would want him to stay a little bit longer.  He had only booked the flight because he was starting the new film the following week and had to be back in LA for it.  And he wasn't sure when he would be able to come back out East again.   If the shoot took longer than expected, which it almost always did, he would barely have any time off before he had to start on "Mistakes".
    "Oh," she said, obviously disappointed.
    Kelly smiled at her and put his earbud back in. He put his seat back as she walked away, hoping to get some rest, but prepared to pretend he was sleeping for the rest of the flight if necessary.  As it turned out, it wasn't necessary to fake it, he slept most of the flight.  When he woke up he checked the time, then grabbed a toothbrush and toothpaste out of his bag.
    He brushed his teeth in the tiny airplane bathroom, which was a challenge.  He glanced at his hair and ran his fingers through it, wishing he had brought his hairbrush into the bathroom as well.  Then he decided he was making too big of a deal out of it.  When he was working on a film, they touched up his hair between practically every take.  It was ridiculous, no one's hair looked that perfect all the time, but that was how it was done.  He put the toothbrush back in the case and opened the door to the bathroom, wondering if he could possibly get the flight attendant to bring him some coffee without having to have a conversation with her.  He opened the door and she was standing right there.
    "Hey," he said, "I was wondering if I could."
    "Yes," she said.
    "What?"
    "Yes," she said again, and moved in really close to him.
    Kelly took a step backwards which put him half in, half out of the bathroom.   She came in even closer and smiled up at him.
    "No, ummm, coffee, I was wondering if I could get some coffee," he said.
    He didn't have any choice, he would have to brush up against her to get around her.  It was that or go back in the