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and she was almost ready to call it a night, but the sun was still up and she wanted to explore a little bit of San Francisco before she fell asleep. She couldn’t spend her first day in America alone in a house, pining over a relationship that was just beginning. She would go insane if that was her plan.
    So, she went down stairs, found that Mike was in the living room, watching some comedy show with cartoons that she didn’t really understand. All of the humor was above her head and all she could do was smile and pretend to chuckle when he chuckled at the screen. It was awkward and when the commercials finally came on, she hoped he might be willing to accompany her on the walk that she was about to go on.
    “Hey,” she said, touching him on the shoulder. He turned his head and looked at her with those dark, smoldering eyes. “I’m going to go on a walk. Would you like to come?”
    He looked at her for a moment and shrugged. “I don’t really like spending time out in the open for long,” he said with a tone that suggested that there was probably a reason behind that.
    She didn’t want to press it any further and simply smiled and nodded at him. Standing up from the couch, she gave him one last look and felt sick that he was more interested in looking at the TV screen than he was in looking at her. She felt sick in her stomach and she opened the door, heading out into the afternoon warmth of the San Francisco world.
    She didn’t remember much of the walk. All she knew was that she was probably in trouble if Mike was more interested in a comedy cartoon than he was in spending time with her. She tried to assure herself that he was probably just trying to play hard to get with her or he was telling himself not to smother her and scare her off. As she tried to justify his actions, she felt bitter and resentful toward him, wishing it had been Will who was home with her. He probably would have taken her all around the city and shown her everything that there was to see in the world. All she could hope was that there would be something different when she woke up tomorrow. Maybe Will would do all the things she wanted to do in the city. There was nothing exciting this far and that scared her.
    When she made it back home, Mike was texting and still watching TV, but at least it wasn’t cartoons this time. He looked up from his phone and asked her how her walk was. She wasn’t sure how to answer that, because she hadn’t spent much time actually looking around when she was walking. She’d spent the entire time in her head, which was never a good place to spend your time when you’re out on a walk. She looked at him with a smile and headed up stairs. She could feel his gaze on her, but it was too late for that. There was no playing anymore, no flirting, and no gazing. She was going to go to bed early and she planned on waking up tomorrow to Will, who might actually show her a good time, one way or another.
     
     

Chapter Three
     
    When Oksana woke up, she realized that she had thrown off most of her blankets and sheets, overheating at some point during the night. She looked at the dark, nocturnal world all around her. She blinked and checked the clock, seeing that it was just after midnight. She did the math and found that she’d been asleep for seven hours and felt more alive and awake than she’d felt in a long time. It was like she’d been asleep for ages and she was more refreshed than ever.
    Sitting up in bed, she could feel the cool of the evening and was happy to feel it was still warmer than anything she’d felt in summer in Ukraine. Here, everything was truly golden. She threw off her one remaining sheet and stood up, feeling her toes and the soles of her feet squishing into the soft carpet as she walked over to the window and stared out. They were situated on a hill that rolled toward the city, but she could see the bay and it was an incredible field of twinkling lights as the city continued to power on.