"She’d never expected… not this. She’d expected to go to Ned today, to slide her hand into his and give him that slow grin and tell him that she wanted to try again, and he would have softened and said he’d think about it while they both knew that by the time the night was over, they would be a couple again. And then, in a few days, a few weeks, she would accompany him to another party, and they would drink, and then she would lead him back to his room and when they approached that line again, she would be shy and she would be unsure and she would let him."
the ghost of you by ndnickerson (http://archiveofourown.org/works/31643)