…to keep talking to Brad:
Something you say strikes him funny and he laughs that same fantastic sensual roll of knowing chuckle and you laugh too because you like the sound.
I don’t want to add much more to the story, and in fact have only added maybe eighty words total but they are, I think important; responding to the questions raised by the workshop as to credibility. Consideration must be given to each and every comment, but it is up to the writer to decide what bears value in improving story, what he wants to present, what he wants the reader to expand upon by himself.