EVA.I walked up to Graham slowly, and sat down in the empty space beside him.He did not look up.He did not even flinch.He just sat there, completely absorbed in whatever was in that glass, swirling it gently, tipping it back, like the rest of the world did not exist.My heart was beating so fast I was genuinely concerned about my own health.I had walked across an entire party, rehearsed three different opening lines, discarded all of them, and now I was sitting beside Graham Hartway with absolutely nothing prepared."Hey," I said.He turned.And without thinking, without giving my brain even a single second to intervene and save me from myself....I grabbed his shirt, pulled him forward, and kissed him.It lasted maybe four seconds before my brain caught up with what my hands had done, and in those four seconds I learned several things simultaneously.His lips were soft.Genuinely, unfairly soft, like someone had specifically designed them to cause problems for ordinary people.He
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