Anna invites a stud to join them

The waiter came, and Anna ordered way too much food, all of it incredibly expensive. Thad tried to keep his composure and ordered the cheapest salad. When the waiter left, Anna asked Thad about his work. Her interest cheered him up a bit.

After ten minutes of stories about various customers at the car lot, he was ready to deliver his best punch line. “Then she said, 'Oh! I thought you were talking about the SUV!'”

“Uh huh,” said Anna, looking at something in her hands below the table.

Her date waited a moment, then said, “Are you... on your cell phone?”

Anna lifted up her phone and put it on the table so she could see it better. “Yeah, but don't worry. I'm really good at listening and texting at the same time. Keep going!”

“Oh. Um... okay.”

As Thad continued telling stories about the car sales business, Anna caught up on all the connections that a super model had to maintain. She confirmed appointments, shmoozed with magazine editors, and updated her social media. She was beginning to recall vague memories of these people and things, as if the memories of her new life were slowly coming back to her.

Then she got a text that read, “Hey. In town unexpectedly. Meet up?”

Anna looked at the name of the sender and thought, “Oh my god! Oh my god! Him?! I know him in this life!” She quickly typed out a reply.

Almost immediately, her phone buzzed with a response. “In the neighborhood. Be there in 10.”

Anna stifled a squeal. She only had a few minutes to calm down enough to act normal before he got there. She breathed deeply. She focused on her new memories of being a sexy, powerful, completely badass and in-control supermodel. She even half-listened to Thad's boring stories, which turned out to be the perfect thing to calm her down.

“Oh, here comes the waiter,” said Thad. “Except... he doesn't have our food.”

“Excuse me, Miss Mei?” said the waiter. “There is someone here who'd like to join you.”

The waiter stepped aside to reveal Ryan Pine, the hottest star in Hollywood. He was currently staring in two different superhero franchises, each one regularly breaking the other's box office records. He was well over six feet tall and muscular, with sandy blonde hair, the palest blue eyes, and cheekbones that could cut glass. Like every woman in America (and much of the rest of the world), Anna had spent many nights fingering herself to his movies.

“Hi Anna,” he said with an actual, honest-to-god twinkle in his eye. “Do you two mind if I join you for dinner?”

She didn't even look at her date for confirmation. “Of course we don't! Oh look, here comes the food! I ordered way too much, so you can share!”

Two waiters brought their many trays of food as a third brought another chair for Ryan. She laughed and chatted with the superstar actor, flirting with ease and confidence, as if she'd spent her life being the hottest woman in every room. At one point, she picked up a strawberry and lightly fed it to him.

Thad quietly ate his salad and watched.

Once they'd finished eating, Anna became more bold. She moved her chair closer to Ryan's. He put his hand on her thigh as he talked. She stared into his amazing, blue eyes and put her hand on his crotch.

Thad worked with the waiter to split the check over three credit cards.

Finally, Anna looked at the clock on her cell phone and said, “It's getting late. Time to go?”