On the 2

<p><span style=color: var(--primary-text)>First rule of riding the subway:</span></p><p><span style=color: var(--primary-text)>Don't talk to strangers.</span></p><p><em style=color: var(--primary-text)>Don't even look at anyone.</em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: var(--primary-text)>But what if they're grouchy and gorgeous and you're sitting right next to them?</span></p><p><span style=color: var(--primary-text)>I always did like a challenge.</span></p><p><span style=color: var(--primary-text)>I want to turn that frown upside down but he barely looks at me.</span></p><p><span style=color: var(--primary-text)>I take a chance and poke the bear and to my shock he plays along and growls back.</span></p><p><span style=color: var(--primary-text)>The more we meet on the train the more I realize he's not the uptight grump I first thought. Then one night there he is-in my world in my space...his tongue in my mouth.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: var(--primary-text)>Mind blown.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: var(--primary-text)>But I'm no fool. A man like Nash Roman doesn't date a guy who sells suits at Macy's.</span></p><p><span style=color: var(--primary-text)>Nash is prep school and Ivy League and I'm night school while working two jobs to pay bills. Nash is fine wine expensive restaurants and handmade suits and I'm beer corner takeout and a lucky find at Goodwill.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: var(--primary-text)>What am I-street-smart Ethan Moreno-doing playing in his world? This man is older than me way richer than me and has already made it clear he doesn't believe in love. I should walk away. Instead I'm falling for him. Hard.</span></p><p><span style=color: var(--primary-text)>Nash couldn't care less if his father doesn't think I'm good enough or if people gossip because we're so different. I need to trust in him and us but I've been burned before.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: var(--primary-text)>And just like the Uptown Number 2 sometimes you have to travel a different route to get to the final destination:</span></p><p><span style=color: var(--primary-text)>Forever.</span></p>