in which
it turns out that Garrett has been spending too much time around Edward
and
has become maudlin
"Oh fair sweet Kate- for whom I would walk ten thousand miles."
His eyes, barely still red, gleamed.
"My dearest Katie, for even a chance to be with you I would survive the wrath of ten thousand lightning storms!"
He leaned in.
"For whom I shall even brave the most disgusting taste of ten thousand polar bears."
The moment tightens something between them.
"Katie my love, my one, my only love."
His lips pass gently over hers. Kate knows that she really should insist that he stop all the dramatics but then she watches him carve their names in a nearby tree and something in her tingles so she doesn't.
Instead she just smiles.