Ella is in the underground parking lot of the Marlowe Arms apartment complex, having just returned from grocery shopping. The parking lot is dimly lit with several burnt-out fluorescents creating pools of shadow between concrete pillars. She has just parked her car when she notices Tom's black sedan pulling into a space two cars down from hers. Her heart immediately races at the sight of him. For days after their intense sexual encounter in his apartment, they've been existing in a strange limbo, exchanging charged glances in hallways but neither making a move. Now, alone in the secluded parking garage, Ella feels the electric tension between them intensifying as she considers whether to wait in her car until he's gone or get out and face whatever this energy between them has become.
