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her, with her teeth nibbling a full bottom lip, and her large dark eyes clouded with what looked like a cross between agitation and worry, just hearing the sound of her voice had become his number one priority. He probably could have given her car the quick fix that it needed to get started; just enough for her to make it to a shop, but the need to get to know her drove him. By hook or by crook, he’d find out what it was that made her different from the rest.
    Jessica wasn’t what one would classify as typical in looks. Her beauty was more ethereal in nature, untouched and innocent. Her eyes were amazing, so large and expressive, framed with long thick lashes that went on for days. When he looked into her dark brown gaze it felt like looking into the window of her soul. He’d never seen anything quite like them.  She sported what appeared to be an abundance of hair, pulled back in a bushy ponytail that he wanted to touch and stroke. As her tongue darted out to moisten her full lips, Simon felt the sudden need to taste them. From the creamy expanse of her blemish-free cocoa brown skin to the way her bangs fell haphazardly over her forehead, she intrigued him.
    He couldn’t see much of her body because of her conservative style of dress, a peasant skirt and blouse, but it looked slender and fit. Perhaps she wasn’t the most beautiful woman he’d ever seen, but Jessica definitely had that certain something that would make a man look twice, and a third time.
    He probably should have been more help to Jessica with her car, but he couldn’t let her get away. Besides, today was the day when he’d decided to start living life to the fullest again, and not merely existing.
    When he’d made that decision, he didn’t know how he’d go about doing it, but when he saw Jessica, he knew that she was somehow the key.
    It took her a moment to respond to his last statement. “You…you want to get to know me better?” she asked with skittish laugher.
    He smiled at her. Damn, she was adorable. “Of course. I think I’ve made it pretty obvious I’m attracted to you, and at the risk of sounding conceited I think the feeling is mutual. So, why not?”
    She looked down at her lap with her palms clenched tightly together. “Why? Do you always go around picking up random women in cemeteries?”
    “I don’t make a habit of picking up random women, let alone in a cemetery. You’re definitely the first. Now random men, that’s another story.”
    That last remark seemed to catch her attention as her head came up sharply as she started at him with widened eyes. She then smiled at him which turned into a laugh. Jessica had a great laugh. “I see you have jokes, but you have to admit, these aren’t exactly normal circumstance.”
    “What’s normal?”
    “Not meeting in a cemetery. What if we did get to know each other better as you suggest and people ask us how we met? What would we say?”
    “The truth of course. I’d tell them when I saw you, you were the liveliest person around.”
    This time when Jessica laughed she didn’t seem to hold back. “You are crazy!” she chuckled. “Wow, if your day job doesn’t work out for you, you can always take a turn at stand-up comedy.”
    “I guess that comes from being a bit of a class clown. I made a few trips to the principal’s offices for my antics.”
    “And what did your parents have to say about that?”
    The subject of his parents was always a sore spot for him, but she couldn’t know that. “They didn’t care.” Having lived up to his parents’ impossible standards most of his life, he realized he’d never be what they wanted. His good grades had never been good enough. His athletic achievements never raised more than an eyebrow, and the girls he dated were never beautiful enough or had not come from a good enough background.  It took a major life-changing event for him to realize that he’d never measure up to what his parents felt was their ideal of the perfect