“I do.”
 
 I smiled. I could get used to this. Sexy conversations on the phone. Torrid nights that no one knew about. There was a thrill to the secrecy that I was starting to like.
 
 “What are you going to do for the rest of the night?” I asked. I didn’t know much about Sam’s life other than he played football.
 
 “Probably watch footage for the Sunday game.”
 
 “Oh.” Maybe there wasn’t more to him than football. I felt a slight sinking feeling.
 
 “And probably make some dinner.”
 
 “Do you cook?”
 
 “Yes, I cook. Do you cook?”
 
 “No. I’m the worst cook.” I ate cereal and salads. Anything with more directions and I would burn it.
 
 “Then good thing you met me. I’m basically a chef. Should have gone to culinary school.”
 
 “Why didn’t you?”
 
 He chuckled. “There’s not as much money in whipping up a mean pasta as there is in catching a leather ball.”
 
 “I keep forgetting.”
 
 “I like that you forget. You don’t give a shit I play football, do you?”
 
 I shook my head. “Not at all.”
 
 “And you know I don’t care you’re on a dance team, right?”
 
 “I do know that.”
 
 “Good, because it doesn’t matter to me. But I was thinking about something today after you left.”
 
 “What’s that?” I asked.
 
 “I want to see you dance.”
 
 “You’ve seen me.”
 
 “No, not like that. The way you love dance. I want to see the ballerina Natalia.”
 
 He took my breath away. I had old dance videos and piles of audition DVDs, but that wasn’t what he was talking about.
 
 “You really want to see me dance?”
 
 “Yeah, I bet you’re beautiful out there.”
 
 And I knew he didn’t mean the same way as when I was a Goddess, shaking my ass for everyone to see.
 
 “I’ll dance for you.”
 
 I was already choreographing something in my head to show him.
 
 “I have to go pick up the film for tonight. But I’ll call you tomorrow.”
 
 “Okay.”