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dropped her pen on the neatly printed notes she had been taking. She turned to look full at his handsome face. Those eyes of his could almost always melt her resolve. It was one of few real temptations for her from her studies.
    More than seven months had passed since their first pizza date, and the two had been almost inseparable. Oddly though, they could not have been any more different in temperament. He was the happy-go-lucky, life of the party guy. He made it seem like everything came easily for him. She was the bookish, hardworking student who loved a challenge and taking on the big boys to defend the powerless. Yet their differences seemed to complement each other rather than create conflict between them.
    “Come on,” Jason pleaded, “put these books away for a few hours already. You and I can go and join Laura and Bob and we will have a great time. You know we will, so what do you say?” Jason flashed his most charming smile at her.
    “Jason, the moot court competition is on Monday morning. I have to prepare. The team is relying on my research,” she protested.
    “Shhhh, hon, that’s two days away, and I promised them we would show tonight. Please.”
    Dale sensed her resolve giving in to his pleas. She would like nothing more than to enjoy the night with her friends, but she knew she would pay the price later. She needed a way to defend herself against his compelling offer. She settled on changing the subject.
    “Hey, speaking of Laura and Bob, what’s going on with those two anyway? For weeks Laura couldn’t stop talking about him. And now it’s like they are always together, but something is different. Do you know anything?”
    “Not a thing. Maybe she just realized Bob is not very into getting serious about anybody. He’s been out of law school for a year making good money for the first time in his life. Maybe he just wants to be free to sow some wild oats. You know, that’s just who he is.”
    “Yeah, I know, and I love Laura like a sister, but she really needs commitment, or really wants it anyway. But, babe, back to us; I really can’t make it tonight. We are so close to winning this thing, and no one ever gave us a chance. I just have to get some more case law to support our position to add to our brief. Then the team will polish our oral arguments tomorrow. I promise you after Monday ….”
    “No, not after Monday, you mean after Monday night, after you win.” His chocolate eyes looked into hers – piercing, prancing, and taunting her. He leaned over to offer her a kiss, his eyes pleading with her to meet him.
    Unable to resist the temptation any longer, she allowed the interruption. He closed in to her and found her lips. She kissed him warmly. So tender were his lips that her heart literally fluttered within her. There was a flow of affection going out and coming in to her. It had been a year before they first went out; and now seven months later they had still not slept together. He knew she would never do such a thing outside of marriage. But she realized in that moment of passion that she had fallen for him and did not even know when it had happened.
    “Wow,” he gasped, “what was that for? I mean I’d like to know what I did to deserve that so I could do it again and again – about a million times.”
    “It’s just that, well, I love how much you understand me.” That is not what she meant to say, not what she was really feeling. What she meant was that she loved him. Why couldn’t she tell him so? After all, he had already expressed his love for her. And she had heard all of the stories about people who didn’t ever get a chance to say “I love you” before some tragedy struck. But something had stopped her. What was it? Fear? She felt she loved him, she felt she knew him, she felt she wanted to live out her days with him, share her life with him. But she didn’t know it – not a knowing of certainty, but a knowing beyond feeling. Her Bible studies had taught her