...yeah, sorry."
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...yeah, sorry." You sheepishly look away and go back to the towel, which is now stained with hot chocolate. You pick the towel up and see that there is still a considerable stain on the carpet. "Um, so, this stain isn't really coming up. You got any of that carpet cleaner?" But you get no response to your clever attempt to change the subject and abort your silly voyeuristic mistake. Instead you look up and Michael is leaning in his doorway, still in his boxers, with his arms crossed. He gives you an inquisitive and playful look.
"Mel, don't change the subject on me," he says with a kind of elated chuckle. "You were watching me change my clothes!" He's quite amused by this.
"Yeah," you say, out of habit, "I'm sorry, I really am. I don't know what... I just... You know, I don't have any excuse."
Michael smiles, lowers his head a bit as he keeps his eyes on you. "Mel. Melanie. Not having an excuse for something like that is just waking up to find yourself inexplicably watching a man standing there mostly naked. Unless you're having some neurological episode for which we should probably drive you to the E.R., then there's a reason you decided to move over and watch me undress."
He's pressing you for information! Oh shit, he knows! He's figured it out that you're attracted to him! Oh no! You feel that if you stick it out and answer honestly that he might voice a reciprocation, and if things go right, this evening might get very, very romantic. But are you ready for a relationship? It hasn't been more than two months since you and Dane broke up, and the relationship with Dane was a substantially serious one. So...
