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Not Sorry

Xander

I was on my back, messing with the wiring for the stereo on the boat when I heard footsteps. It was a busy marina. I didn’t think anything of it until I heard her voice.

“Knock, knock,” she called out.

I had to smile. I slid out from where I was mostly hidden from view. “I’m here,” I said, getting to my feet.

She looked at the screwdriver in my hand and then back at me. “Um, I think I might take a raincheck.”

“Why?”

“You are working on your boat. That isn’t a good sign, is it?”

I grinned, shaking the screwdriver. “I was fixing the stereo. The boat is fine. She isn’t going to sink.”

She looked skeptical. “I don’t know. I’m not a great swimmer.”

“It’s going to be fine. It isn’t going to sink.”

She gestured at the boat with one hand. “What about the engine? Is it sound?”

She was nervous. It was very different from the confident, bubbly woman I had met at the party. It was too good to pass up. “I have rations on the boat. They will last at least four days. We can live three weeks w
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