Hey folks,
Thanks so much for the words of encouragement when you all review! Its always so exciting to read them and I know I'm a little sporadic in posting but I do have other things I do which has had to take priority. but along with it its not 1am in the morning and I can't sleep... so I came down to do this... one day... I'll get a descent nights sleep... honest!
He opened the gate for her letting her go through the gate before he followed her through closing it behind him. His arm went around her keeping her close by his side.
"I feel so far away from you." Anne whispered to him.
He smiled with a glint in his eyes and whispered back "Its all these clothes." He flirted, which she chuckled in response.
"Best keep them on though," she replied cleverly, "its somewhat frowned upon to be quite so scantly clad as we have been."
"In polite society." He said quickly back before they were greeted by Fred.
"Gilbert, Anne." He smiled. "Its good to see you Gil." He told his best friend. "How's school I haven't seen you all summer, between you being at the hospital and being with your mrs...?" he asked him.
"Oh, its going well." Gilbert smiled.
"Is he being humble again?" Fred asked Anne.
"Oh you know Gilbert. Understatement thy name is Gil." Anne replied.
"Well if its all the same to you I don't want to be here to talk shop all the time."
"Oh Good." Diana said who had been approaching a nearby table with a bowl of punch in her hands but upon seeing Anne and Gilbert speaking to Fred had changed her course to meet them. "We might have a chance of understanding what you're talking about." Diana smiled.
"Let me take that." Gilbert said taking the punch bowl from her, Fred followed Gilbert to the table while Diana and Anne stood still for a moment before they slowly followed the boys.
"So?" Diana asked realising the blush and Anne's cheeks.
Anne bit her bottom lip and nodded her head with a grin on her face, to which Diana squealed and hugged her "Oh Anne!" she exclaimed "Oh I can't believe it but I can!" she said hurried "Oh Anne! Gilbert Blythe!" she swooned.
"Diana Wright!" Anne exclaimed "You're acting like we're in high school!" She continued "and I've slept with the most handsome most elite jock..." she trailed slowly realising that she had in fact done just that, "well alright maybe I did, but we're not in high school anymore and you're married." Anne said to her with a laugh which only made Diana giggle and linked arms with Anne. "to a different jock, might I add, and he's not so bad himself." Anne pointed out.
"Oh I love Fred and you know I do." Diana told her straight. "But come on Anne, it's Gilbert," Diana exclaimed "Gilbert!"
Anne chuckled and rolled her eyes "This is why I could never admit to liking him in high school."
Diana rolled her eyes and told her straight "You fooled no one Anne."
Anne looked at her for a moment then shrugged "no, I suppose not."
"Well," Diana continued "maybe a little while." Diana admitted "but something happened, slowly." She grinned "I think he wormed his way into your affections."
"Wormed." Anne sighed, "it was never that." She smiled.
"So..." Diana asked. "What was it like?"
Anne thought before she replied. She had no doubt that over the last three days Gilbert had been deliberately gentle with her, not that he needed to be, Anne had enjoyed his ministrations, her stomach fluttered at the memory of his lips so gently skimming her skin there. "Beautiful." Anne admitted, "he was, is..." she smiled in a way which Diana knew was in love.
"Oh my goodness!" Diana swooned "I'm so happy for you!"
Anne smiled before they were interrupted.
"Oh Miss Stacy!" Diana exclaimed hugging the older lady "You came!"
"Well how could I not, see so many of my current students and pass students all in one go." Miss Stacy smiled.
Diana's name was called from somewhere behind them, where she excused herself from her present company leaving Anne and Miss Stacy alone.
"How are you Anne?" Miss Stacy asked her.
"I'm very well, thank you." Anne said with a smile to her old principle. "I'm sorry, I feel like its been years since I last saw you," Anne admitted "it must have been..." Anne wondered.
"The summer after Diana's wedding." Miss Stacy confirmed. "I understood at that point you were with someone..." she looked over at Gilbert for a moment before her eyes flicked back to Anne.
"It was never right." She shook her head. "I could never tell him everything." She said in reflection.
"And Gilbert? You've been together for..."
"Eleven months." Anne clarified.
Miss Stacy nodded. "Does he know everything Anne?" she asked seriously.
Anne smiled and nodded. "I told him before it was even possible for us to be together, " Anne said quietly, "and he was perfect about it," she said in a quiet reverence. "I could always trust him with everything." Anne said with a smile to her old teacher "but then I think Miss Stacy you saw that," Anne said as her teachers face turned to a grin "Even in those detentions, you knew Gilbert."
"And I knew you Anne, well I hoped I did." Miss Stacy admitted. "I hoped you could help heal each other."
"Were you match making?!" Anne laughed.
"Maybe a little," she admitted "I must admit I'm glad I was right."
"I'm glad..." Anne started, paused and said "I'm glad we had that time together, all those early moments where I wasn't sure of myself, never mind another person, you gave me the friend I needed and later the boyfriend I needed." And she smiled there "and wanted." Anne took a breath and paused before she said "actually Miss Stacy, could you help me with something?" Anne asked her.
The picnic over, both Gilbert and Anne had barely touched based the whole time, they had spent very little time together for the duration, but both enjoying the time they spent with their Avonlea friends.
"Its so good isn't it?" Anne said to Gilbert as they walked through the woods again. "That we have such good friends and that we weren't joined at the hip but we enjoyed other people's company too." She said to him.
"It is." Gilbert agreed "though I must admit I wanted to be joined with you by the hips." He flirted, Anne looked up to him and smiled a blush.
"Me too." She told him.
"Did you tell Diana?" Gilbert asked her to which she looked up at him confused "I thought you might."
"What did you tell Fred?" Anne asked him.
"They assumed months ago." Gilbert shrugged, "I think if Mr Wright speaks to Mrs Wright he might get the right picture but Charlie and Moody would never believe it." He said to her "I've never corrected them, I didn't really see it as their business."
"Its not." Anne confirmed. "Anyway its our delight not theirs." She smiled.
He grinned widely before he looked to her in a blissful silence as the walked, he held her a little closer and whispered to her "Our delight."
Upon arriving back home Gilbert took Anne to his bedroom again, their clothes were quickly disregarded, their bodies pressed, Gilbert lips were pressed into Anne's neck, he was already pressed into her when Anne seemed distracted by something.
"Anne?" he asked her.
"Did you hear something?" Anne asked him.
He stopped for a moment and wondered before he shook his head "no." He said returning himself to her neck, she started to relax, one hand playing with his curls and the other laid at above her head she had just relaxed again when she heard something again.
"Gilbert?" they heard from the bottom of the stairs.
"Mom!" Gilbert whispered as he shot up off the bed, shocking Anne at his sudden movement away from her. "Sorry love." He said returning to her for a moment kissing her quickly "I can't have her finding us like this!" he said as Anne blushed a pretty pink. He found a robe and wrapped it around himself before leaping to the door opening it. Anne could hear the conversation on the other side of the door.
"Hey Mom." He said closing the door slightly. "You're home early." He said casually.
"The show was fantastic but I really had very little interest in roving about a huge city." She told him "we took a drive round all the country lanes and villages, even visited some, stayed in little bed and breakfasts and came home."
Gilbert smiled "Well I'm glad you had a good time." He managed.
"You in your PJ's already son, a little early for you isn't it?" she asked him. "Its half five in the afternoon."
"Well it was meant to be a relaxing afternoon." He tried still casually.
"Well, maybe we can leave you a little longer then," she continued "I saw this beautiful dress in the city which I thought would look beautiful on Anne, your pap and I can walk up to Green Gables and show her it." His mother tried to move away.
"Oh, um, well..." he said flustered. "she's here." He said closing his eyes knowing his mother would catch on.
"Oh?!" His mother exclaimed a grin breaking across her face "Oh!" she repeated as her son's eyes opened looking at his mother. "Are you both safe?" she whispered.
His mouth played at a smile and he whispered back "We've got it covered." He smiled.
She looked up at him her hand touching his face softly and she smiled proudly at him. "You know me and your pap should go to the evening service at church." She told him "I think we'll go for a walk." She smiled before she called "Hello Anne."
"Hello Mrs Blythe." They heard from the other side of the door.
"Did you hear, I saw a beautiful dress I thought you might like?" she called.
"Yes Mrs Blythe." Anne replied.
"When better disposed perhaps we might look at it together." She called.
There was a little pause before Anne replied "Yes, Mrs Blythe, thank you."
With that his mother walked down the hallway and walked down the stairs.
Gilbert opened his door and shut it behind him, he looked at Anne who had covered herself in his blanket. "I think she knows." Gilbert joked, which made Anne burst into giggles as he crossed the room and sat on the bed next to her. "They're going to church." He remarked as she hugged in next to him. "To pray for our eternal souls, I think ironically so we could..." he trailed and shook his head.
Anne giggled and kissed into his neck gently before she admitted "I don't think we're in the right place for that now." She grinned.
"No." Gilbert admitted. "Though, I suppose we'll have to get used to the potential of interruption, at least when we're in Avonlea." He said logically. She looked up at him and nodded in agreement.
"Maybe it'll leave more time for us to be sociable with other people and with each other, you know so we don't just have sex all the time." She whispered.
He let out a puff of air and remarked "Do we have to?" he asked her and with a wink.
She sighed heavily and said "I can't believe it was only Friday." She told him "I feel like its been this way forever."
"Only when we were in love." He told her.
She looked up to him and smiled "So basically from day one?" she asked him.
"Basically yeah." He agreed with a grin. "but then I'm glad its happened now." He admitted. "it was right this way." He said to her "definitely in love." He said to her.
Anne looked up into his hazel eyes and 'awed.' "Me too." She told him. "I'm in love with you too."
"Can I ask you something?" he asked her.
"Anything." She confirmed.
"Did I hurt you at all, any of the times, but particularly the first, did I hurt you?"
She looked at him and shook her head. "my first time..." she said with a smile "was the best, I mean in my experience..." she said with a grin.
"You mean all seven times?" he asked.
"but that's just it, I mean I know it takes practice..."
Anne!" he exclaimed slightly insulted.
"But that's what I mean!" she told him. "You were considerate of me, you kept checking that what you were doing was what I wanted, Diana said today that her first time with Fred was awkward and some of it was embarrassing, but they got 'the hang of it'." She said with a smile "I feel as though as wonderful and as better practiced the other six times were, that first time..." she said with a smile "I didn't feel any embarrassment, awkwardness or distance from you, I felt closer, I felt..." she shook her head "no I could just stay naked with you, I didn't want to get dressed, I wanted to stay with you forever."
He smiled at her and said "well my first time." He said as if they were sharing a secret with each other "was with this really really hot girl."
"Oh really?" she asked.
"Yeah." He smiled "Honestly I think she ruined me for other women." He said with a bottom lip out thinking.
Anne giggled into his robe before she whispered "Hey, did your mom actually ask if we were using protection?" she asked him. To which Gilbert nodded with a blush. "What if I hadn't been on the pill?" Anne asked him curiously, to which he pulled out a box of condoms from his bed side table.
"I bought them a month into us dating." He told her simply.
She looked at the packet and seal "they're still sealed." Anne smiled.
"Um, who else am I having sex with?!" he teased her. "I have another packet in the draw in Kingsport." He admitted.
"Won't they go out of date?" she asked him.
"Well I assumed we'd be ready for sex in the next five years." He said with a grin.
"Oh?" she asked surprised at just how long the use by date was, "Yes I suppose we would be." She said with a puff of relief she opened the box and nodded, the expiration date was just short of four years. "Did they show you how to use one of these in sex ed?" she asked him innocently. He looked to her amazed before she reached for the belt of his robe "Maybe, if we're really quiet..." she flirted.
Before he playfully pinned her to the bed.
"I am so glad we are going out tonight!" Anne exclaimed as she locked her car. Diana had been sitting beside her in the passenger seat, Josie and Ruby has sat in the back.
"I haven't had a 'girls night out' in such a long time!" Diana exclaimed linking arms with Anne.
"Its always nice to catch up with the girls." Ruby exclaimed joining in linking with the others.
"And its just us girls." Josie added finally joining the group.
"We're all so busy nowadays, we barely even see each other at vacations." Anne smiled.
"If we can pry you away from Gilbert!" Ruby teased.
"Amen to that!" Diana laughed from beside her.
"Oh now come on we're not that bad!" Anne exclaimed before Josie snorted, "Are we?" she asked.
"I heard that atoms spilt easier then you two do." Diana teased which made everyone laugh.
"I think its sweet." Ruby said softly. "He was always so lonely until he met you." She said.
"Oh come on," Anne tried "He must have dated?" Anne asked.
"You haven't been through this with him?" Josie asked.
"Oh, um well, I know he didn't have any serious girlfriends, but dating is different, isn't it? I mean you can casually date someone without being girlfriend and boyfriend." She said "Can't you?"
"Oh well he was sociable enough." Ruby thought, "but very infrequently 'took' a girl places."
"The closest to that was Josie." Diana reflected.
"When I pushed myself on him?" Josie asked. "That's not casual dating."
"Did you kiss?" Diana asked.
"Gilbert was an expert in avoiding kissing." Josie huffed. "Is he good at least?" Josie asked Anne.
"Oh yes, juice up!" Ruby asked. "I always imagined he'd be deep, slow and steady."
"No," Josie disagreed "Fast and furious, all that testosterone built up."
"Really?" Diana asked. "I thought he'd be handsie!"
"Diana!" Anne exclaimed "This is my boyfriend you're all discussing!" She said giggling.
"And we've all fantasied." Josie teased her. "But you get the real deal."
"So spill." Ruby added.
Anne was quiet for a moment as she took a deep breath and shook her head. "Gilbert is..." she paused and said quietly "All of it, depending on his mood, on how we need to be, you know in company, or not." She added. "but then there's time when we're together and he just pulls back and looks at me, and its so intense and adoringly and he doesn't just kiss me on the lips, he'll kiss me on the forehead or the nose and he make me feel..." she sighed and whispered "adored." The other girls stopped and looked at Anne with smirks on their faces. "What?!" Anne asked them.
"So its intense? Even in the little kisses?!" Josie asked.
"Wow." Ruby swooned "Now that is Gilbert!"
"Ruby!" Anne exclaimed "What about Spencer?"
"Come on Anne! Its Gilbert!" she sighed "Dreamy."
Anne chuckled and shook her head. "Why did I have to date a jock?" she muttered.
"Oh come on, we all wish he our firsts!" Josie added.
"Josie!" Diana blushed.
"Oh come on!" Josie said "It would have been better then Clark Mosby." Josie teased her.
"Clark?" Anne asked looking at Diana who blushed more "No!" Anne exclaimed. "You mean Fred wasn't your first?!"
"Technically Clark and I never had sex." Diana blushed "We just did other stuff." She blushed. "So technically Fred was my first."
"Oh I'm sure he's flattered on a technicality!" Josie laughed.
"Oh come on!" Diana blushed "better then Andy and Mark, and..."
"Charlie." Josie finished for her. Anne looked at her for a moment for explanation. "Andy was a senior and I was a freshman." She shrugged "what was I meant to say? We were together the whole school year, " she paused before she said "and Mark was in sophomore year and only once after he turned out to be an idiot."
"Mark?" Ruby asked. "You slept with Mark before me?"
"Oh, yeah..." Josie trailed "He asked me never to tell you that."
Diana looked at Ruby "I thought Spencer was your first!"
"No, but it has only been the two of them." Ruby said quietly. "What about you Anne?" Ruby enquired "Was it Roy or someone before you came to Avonlea?"
Anne took a deep breath, with a bite in her cheek "No, not Roy." She said quietly "Just Gil."
They all stopped and looked at her for a moment "Just Gil?" Ruby sighed romantically.
"That's so sweet!" Josie squealed.
"How come you never did with Roy?" Ruby asked her "I mean he was very handsome!"
Anne smiled "Roy is indeed very handsome," Anne acknowledged "its just we couldn't get all that close, he was pushing to get closer and I was pulling away because..." she trailed as Josie interrupted
"You were in love with Gil all along." Josie added "Don't deny it."
"I won't." Anne sighed in relief, truth be told in part it was one of the reasons.
"First loves are so intense aren't they?" Diana said thoughtfully.
"I couldn't get over mine." Anne said with a smile.
"Wow!" Ruby sighed "You're so luck Anne!"
Anne chuckled as they got to the front of the queue to the club. "Right ladies, looks like we've arrived." She smiled.
"Are you sure you're okay with not drinking?" Josie asked her.
Anne smiled "I'm sure, I'm not a big fan of it, besides, who said you need alcohol to have a good night out with friends."
"Amen!" Diana agreed.
"Now, no more boy talk," Anne said strictly. "Tonight is an all girls night!"
"Woohhoo!" Ruby exclaimed.
They danced for a while before Anne found them a table and they stopped for a drink.
"Nice club!" Ruby called to them.
"The music is good too!" Josie called taking a sip of her drink. "Um, Anne good choice." She said.
"Sex on the beach." She told Josie "Still felt weird ordering them." She said.
Josie looked to Ruby and Diana who were engrossed in their own conversation before she asked Anne carefully "Are you and Gilbert... intimate?" She asked Anne.
"Um, yeah." Anne confirmed.
Josie took a sigh and asked sensitively "Does he know?" Josie asked her.
Anne looked at her wide eyed before she excuse Josie and her as they went to 'freshen up'.
In the bathroom, Anne checked the stalls before she asked "How can you know?" Anne asked confused. "who told you... I mean Gil wouldn..." she started.
"No, no, it wasn't Gil." Josie started.
"Did, did Gil tell Charlie?" she asked.
"No, come on Gil wouldn't tell Charlie!" Josie shook her head. "It was my psychological class at college." She started. Anne took a deep breath of relief as Josie continued "in order to do the physical side of things they teach us the psychological side too, but they teach us to look for signs of abuse, you know in case there is a reason, you know psychological reason for them not to be healing physically, and a few things, they rang true to you, or at least you at high school," She said. "I knew neither Matthew and Marilla would, and then what happened, or at least what you told me of Roy..." she trailed. "So I'm right?"
Anne nodded looking down at the floor.
"You don't have anything to be ashamed of," Josie told her "and I won't ever tell anyone, I promise." Josie explained. "Then again I don't know what kind of abuse it was so, but I'm guessing, I just, I wanted you to know, you could talk to me, if you need someone other then Gilbert." Josie said with a smile. Anne looked up at Josie and smiled a little. "Gil would never tell Charlie that!"
"I know." Anne said. "Why do you think I was so confused?" Anne asked.
"You never told Diana?" Josie asked to which she shook her head. "Well..." She looked to Anne and said "You know how I knew you were still in love with Gilbert when you were with Roy?" she asked her.
"I don't know everyone seems to think it was obvious." Anne muttered.
"Well hindsight is a very subjective thing." Josie said drily. "No, I knew because of that bracelet you have on tonight."
"My pearl one?" she asked Josie, "but I never take it off." She said "like my necklace."
"Oh, you took off the necklace." Josie observed, "I'm guessing Roy didn't like it so you took it off to please him, but you always had on a watch and that pearl bracelet," she said with a smile "Gilbert gave you that bracelet."
"I know." Anne said quietly.
"By keeping it on, even when you weren't talking you were confirming that he still meant more to you then real pearls."
"He does." Anne confirmed "and yes, he always did." Anne looked to Josie and smiled "So..." Anne said turning towards the mirror pretending to check her makeup "Are you and Charlie on or off at the moment?" Anne asked her.
"Off." Josie said shaking her head "longest time yet, three months." Josie confirmed, "I don't think things will ever..." she shook her head.
"So, there's been no one since? I mean in the off bits?" she asked.
"No." Josie admitted. "I do love him, its just..." she shook her head "I don't know, trust plays a huge part of it now." She shared with Anne.
"Josie..." Anne started before someone came into the bathroom. Anne looked to Josie who simply smiled.
"I know." Josie said looking at Anne for a moment before they hugged. "come on, they'll be wondering where we went."
They all drank and danced some more, when Anne suggested they go some place to eat. The girls agreed on the bases that alcohol on a empty stomach was always a bad idea. It was then when they were walking towards fast food chicken that they saw.
Josie stopped and gasped her eyes filling with tears before she turned and walked away.
"Josie wait!" Ruby called after it as she ran down the street after her, Diana turned and went after them before at the sound of Josie's name Charlie came up for air from the girl he was making out with.
Anne's face stuck with determination marched over to Charlie and she looked at the girl "Hi, I'm Anne, do you know Charles here?"
"Um, we only just met tonight. I'm Sarah." The girl admitted. "Do you know Charlie?" she asked.
"Yes, I do, since high school." Anne confirmed. "He has serious commitment issues, he likes to line up food and drink in perfect little lines in the fridge, he irons his underwear and he likes to correct you if you use grammar incorrectly."
The girl looked confused at Anne before she asked "are you an ex-girlfriend?"
Anne smiled "no," Anne admitted "and admit it, the fact I know those things and I'm not an ex, doesn't that make him so much more attractive?" Anne said with a smirk.
"Bye." The girl said untangling herself from Charlie and running down the street quickly.
Charlie turned to Anne annoyed "What the hell Anne!?" he exclaimed.
"Don't you what the hell me Charles Sloane!" Anne snapped back "Josie is still hung up on you!"
"We broke up again!" Charlie said "Did she miss that bit out!?"
"No she didn't!"
"So we've broken up and I'm seeing other girls, what's wrong with that!"
"How many?!" Anne demanded.
"Excuse me that's none of your business!" he told Anne.
"She hasn't!" Anne exclaimed
"Then she needs to move on!" Charlie told her.
"Is that what you're doing?!" Anne asked.
"I have needs!" He told Anne.
"You have issues!" Anne exclaimed "Do you love her?"
"What's her face?" Charlie asked looking confused down the street.
"Sarah, her name was Sarah!" Anne exclaimed "And no, I meant Josie!"
"Yes!" he argued back.
"Then why aren't you making it work with her Charles?!" Anne demanded.
Charlie looked at Anne then at the floor, "I can't make it work." He shrugged "alright?" he asked Anne. "So I'm doing what we're meant to at our age, right? I mean are we meant to be with just one person..."
"You're not meant to be with hundreds!" Anne exclaimed.
Charlie looked annoyed for a moment before he started to walk away but then stopped. "Four." He told Anne.
"Excuse me?" Anne asked him.
"Since Josie and I have been so on and off again, over then past year or so, apart from Josie, there's been four others."
Anne looked at him and asked quietly "does Josie know?" she asked.
Charlie shrugged and shook his head.
"Look," Anne said softly "if you love Josie, which I think you do, maybe you should start again, date her, get to know her again." Anne said with a sigh "she's pretty terrific."
"I know she is." Charlie told her.
Anne sighed "I better go, I'm the only one not drinking, I'm the driver, so..." Anne said annoyed "Do you have a drive home?" Anne asked him.
Charlie sighed "I have a motel room booked." He told her. "I'll drive back tomorrow when I'm not..." he swallowed and looked at Anne. "Keep her away from burgers after she's been drinking, she'll say she can handle it but she's sick every time." He told her.
"Chicken it is." Anne said with a nod.
"No one?" Charlie asked Anne to which she nodded and he hung his head a little "Guess I seem like a jerk now." He said lowly.
"You're an idiot." Anne said to him but then looked up "but its no different to any other heartbroken man." She continued "You've never been a jerk Charles." Anne said to him "just be yourself, instead of who you think you should be." Anne assured him "you're quite the catch yourself when you are."
Anne slid into bed, putting her arm around Gilbert he stirred and turned over.
"How was boys night?" Anne asked him.
Gilbert smiled and shrugged "Not as good as us night." He admitted. "Davy liked being a man for the night, he didn't even object when I came to sleep in here."
Anne smiled "I'm glad." She said. "I am so tired." She said as he lay flat on his back and she cuddled in "Josie worked out I was abused before I came to green gables." Anne said quietly which made Gilbert sit up slightly. "No, no, its okay." Anne admitted "she figured it out from her classes at uni." Anne confirmed, "and she covered by back with the others a couple of times to distract from the facts." Gilbert lay quietly as Anne said "she was so sweet about it, she's changed so much from the Josie she was at high school."
"Good." Gilbert said quietly. "I'm glad she's on our side."
"Charlie been with other girls in the off bit of their relationship." Anne said quietly.
"He what?" Gilbert asked "Oh Charles!" he scoffed.
Anne sighed and said "Was I too hard on Roy?" Anne asked him.
"No." Gilbert said shaking his head "Anne its not the same thing."
"Isn't it? Roy thought we were broken up."
"And he had sex every single time, He was cheating, cheating and your on and off again was whenever he had sex and felt guilty he'd come back to you." Gilbert whispered. "Charlie isn't like Roy."
"I suppose." Anne admitted before she snuggled up to Gilbert "I'm glad we're so different to all that, I'm glad, I think, one day maybe, we could..." she blushed.
"What?" Gilbert asked her in the darkest night the silence was almost deafening.
"Get married one day, be like Di and Fred, like not exactly like Fred and Di but married, our own marriage..." she trailed before he squeezed her.
"Yeah?" he asked her.
"Yeah." She confirmed. "Yeah?" she asked him.
He smiled into the darkness and kissed into her hair. "Yeah." He confirmed.