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"Both"

When both of you finally drop the flimsy pretenses and fall into that first kiss, it's like rushing into the arms of truth and freedom and lust, all mixed together, incarnate.

When both of you break away from each other, breathless and sweaty, your starry eyes shine with the lack of wisdom that often occupies those of new lovers.

Under the cover of night and a few sheets on the narrow bed you're cuddling in, you talk about the unfulfilled longing that'd unknowingly been shared between you two, and wonder aloud at the stupidity of it. There are impassioned murmurs of unending love and devotion, and you make plans to steal away together, abandoning these separate lives you've known for too long, before you fall asleep in each other's arms.

The morning brings sight, clarity, and with a clumsy kiss you both depart.

You return to her, the governor's daughter.

You return to her, the Pearl.

The one night but rippled the exciting, yet predictable waters of your lives, and strangely, neither of you regrets the relative calm that follows.