"Want dessert?"
"Damn right."
"Okay, but don't order the tiramisu, because then I'd be forced to beg you for a bite, then two, then I'd end up stealing half of it and go into a coma."
Keeping his eyes on hers, he signaled for the waitress with the casual authority of a man used to giving orders. It made Cybil's brow crease.
"Tiramisu," he told the waitress. "Two forks," and made Cybil weak with laughter.
The Perfect Neighbor
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By Danielle Tsi from Mountain View, CA, USA (Profiterole montage)
[CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
2- Always
Be With Someone Who Lets You Eat Cake
The right
man or woman will let you eat cake. Lots of it.
I went out
with someone, a very great and kind person, who seeing me struggle to decide on
dessert, (really, is it fair to choose between chocolate mousse and cheesecake?
I don’t think so) let me order both.
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He sampled the chocolate himself. "This is very well named. 'Sin.' " He tormented himself by imagining the taste of her mixed with the chocolate.
It made her stomach jump. "You're going to have to sin by yourself." She picked up her coffee. "I'm resisting."
"One more," he murmured, sliding the fork into the dessert, lifting a tempting bite to her lips. And he was pleased to see, when she took it, that she could indeed be tempted.
IAN @ MacGregor Grooms