"Have you heard a word I've said? I like you? I trust you? I want you?! Fuck me blind: Sam, you dipshit, I am hitting on you five times harder than you ever hit on me! How come men are so...fucking...stupid? And by the way, my tits are hangin' out! What's a girl gotta do?"

Sam decided to take things slowly. He began by reminding his lungs to breathe. Then he swallowed a couple of times. He was—no shit—pleased with himself for remembering how. 'In for a fucking penny' he thought to himself, and risked the complex combination of rational thought and audible speech. "Are you saying you want to...