Skadoosh! This chapter is really short... Like, seriously short... Only 534 words, compared to the one-thousand to two-thousand word chapters before it...

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Six days.

That's how long it took me to kiss him.

Six days, twenty-one hours, and seventeen minutes.

And as soon as I did, my anxieties returned.

Quickly pulling away, my hands flew up to hide my face quickly reddening face. "Danny! Oh my gods, I'm so sorry! I don't know what came over me! I didn't mean to! I swear I didn't!I was just thinking about how-"

I stopped when I heard the half-hippocampus chuckling softly. I parted my fingers and looked at him through a single eye. "W-why are you laughing?" Gods. Did I make that big of a fool of myself that even Danny would laugh at me? I couldn't have possibly done that! Danny's never laughed at me like this before!

"Oh, I don't know…" He chuckled, brushing the hair that was covering my hands, which were still covering my face, out of the way so he could see the eye that I was looking at him with. "Maybe because you're so concerned about how I'd react to you kissing me, that you never gave me the chance to decide whether or not to kiss you back."

He had a mischievous glint in his deep blue eyes, and I couldn't tell if he was messing with me or not. It didn't seem like a very Danny thing for him to do, but at that point, I wasn't even sure if I knew who he was, let alone who I was. Not after I just spontaneously kissed him. "W-would you have?"

He shrugged carelessly. "Why don't you move your hands away from your face so we can see?"

I didn't want to do that. It sounded like the worst plan in the world. I didn't know what Danny was going to do if I moved my hands away. Would he kiss me? Ignore me? Reject me? Make sure I was watching as he got up and left me? But all those questions and that not-knowing sparked curiosity in me, and I could never ignore the temptations of my curiosity, even if it was a life-or-death type of situation.

Slowly, I lowered my hands. Folding them in my lap, I waited for Danny to make his move, heart pounding as I did.

When I was about to take shelter in my hands and hide my humiliation behind my fingers once more, a pair of soft, warm lips were pressed onto mine. I was too shocked at first to register who it was, too shocked to respond to it. It took me awhile to realize it was Danny who was pressing his lips onto mine. My heart melted inside my chest, eyes fluttering shut as I tried to wrap my mind around what was going on. But my mind couldn't think straight, and I found myself beginning to kiss him back.

After a few moments, Danny finally pulled away. He rested his forehead on mine, a small smile on his face. "I think the answer to your question," He murmured, giving my nose a gentle kiss. "Was yes."

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Skadoosh! :D Fluffy moments! :D And the end of book one! :D I'm contemplating adding another chapter, but… I think this is the best ending for the story. Don't you think?

Look! This is the first time I've actually ever completed a story that I've worked on! :D I'm so happy!