Val orders a nine-dollar glass of wine. It’s the cheapest option. Val doesn’t really like wine. Wine is acceptable to drink on dates, and sauvignon blanc sounds fancy when she says it.
Harun is asking where she went to college like he already knows the answer. Ashley, her coworker and the architect behind this date, must have fed him the background information. Val looks at the space of skin visible above his collar and tries to imagine him naked. How much hair does he have on his chest?
