Try and get closer to her

"So, you're really enjoying this show?" You ask after another few moments, mostly to have something to talk about, but also because she seems genuinely interested.

"Yeah, sure! I've been watching it from the start!" She flashes you another of her most brilliant little smiles, which makes you more and more certain that there could be such a thing as love at first sight. So far this girl most definitively seems to have it all - though it also makes you worry that she's actually too good to be true...

"So, what's the catch?" You wonder to yourself, while leaning back in the couch again, before realizing that you actually said it out loud.

"What do you mean?" Rachel asks you, with a curious glance across the couch, which makes you suddenly blush while you try and come up with some kind of excuse. It seems like she can read you like an open book however, and a smug smile spreads across her face while your embarrassment becomes evident on your own.

She doesn't push the subject though, and you keep watching the show in silence until the episode ends.

"And you've got an x-box as well?" Rachel notes when she's about to get out of the couch, and then smiles at you again. "It really seems like I'm in good company, after all."

"Well, if you can live with my talking to myself." You agree, with a sheepish smile of your own, and then try to keep yourself from staring at her beautiful figure. The grin that she gives you in return is both knowing and mischievous, but also makes you feel like there's something amiss.

"So, what were you saying exactly?" She asks, turning back at you just as she's about to leave the room. "That thing about a catch?"

"Well, just figuring that you must have a boyfriend, or something." You tell her, trying to act casual, even as you feel your heart start beating faster in your chest again. "There just can't be a girl in this world that's both beautiful and seems to share my interests, without some kind of catch in the way?"

"Well, yeah." She admits, with a regretful little smile that nearly manage to break your heart. Then she turns to leave again, but hesitates, and glance back at you over her shoulder. "But no, I don't have any boyfriend."

Then she's gone, and you listen to her moving about in her room while you try and think about what she's said. So there is a catch, but it's not about a boyfriend? Curiousity start gnawing inside of you, and you find it difficult to sleep that night when thinking about your chances to get closer to this lovely woman that's staying in your house...