She didn't bring it up again.

Not the next morning when the car took her home and she sat in the back watching the city wake up around her. Not the day after when he called in the afternoon and she answered and they talked for thirty minutes about nothing and she let herself laugh at something he said without analyzing it. Not when the food arrived again on Thursday — different restaurant this time, something she had mentioned two weeks ago that she had forgotten she mentioned.

She didn't bring it up because bringing it up meant deciding what she thought about it and she wasn't ready to do...