This argument at this time. This will change lives. Their lives. They both know it. He has the sense to back away. And she chases after him.

At some point during the coffee he is transfixed by her hair, and he builds up the courage to stroke her mane and she says, Don’t touch it.

I met her on the bus. She took out a hip flask and I fell in love. Let’s steal the bus, she said. I tried to. Later, she says, I was drunk.