"You can try. When you have have marble hard abs, I might start to believe you," she said, winking at him as picked up a cherry from her drink and popped it into her mouth. Pulling the stem off she dropped it on a napkin as she chewed.
Leaning forward to place an elbow on the bar and prop her head up against her palm, she explained, "I was going up to my room. It was weird. One second I was climbing the stairs and the next...well, you were there. It was like stepping right out of my world and into this. What about you?"