Fling

They started out friends...

"I had known her a month. She was my colleague and lived down the block. We spent many hours together everyday. We travelled by the same bus to office. Evenings, no matter how late we returned, we lingered at the beach where the bus stopped, and talked. We talked a lot. She told me about her heartbreaks: a bad marriage and a messy divorce. I told her imaginary tales about a faithless childhood sweetheart. We talked about love, and cursed it. She said romantic love was ridiculous, I said it was dangerous."

They were determined not to love, but they ended up being 'friends with benefits'.