Lightning-Dono: I'm running out of ideas for these drabbles and the list is looking empty. O.o So, if you could review with a theme when you comment, I will appreciate it greatly, and you will receive credit for the theme as well!

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Theme: #10 "Impulse"
Word Count: 373

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Jill was, needlessly put, a klutz. She could trip over a stone that was smaller than a snail when she was hoeing the fields and she could just as easily run into the hind-side of her horse as it grazed peacefully in the fields. There was no end to her clumsiness, and while others found it abhorrent, Kai thought it was the most adorable thing in the world.

He loved it when she would stub her toe as they walked, hand in hand, and she would grip his hand tightly as the pain settled in and set light to her nerves. It pained his heart when she would confess herself sorry and in and instant it would be gone with when they talked of cheerier matters to take her mind off of the horrific throbbing in her toe.

Today's walk wasn't out of the ordinary. After their customary dinner at the Inn, Kai chose to escort her home in the descending dusk as they watched the sun sink below the horizon composed of rooftops and numerous trees.

"You don't have to walk me home," Jill was saying softly, her head bobbing up and down in time with her bouncy steps. "It's so late. By the time you get home, you'll be floundering in the dark."

"Better floundering in the dark than feeling guilty for parting ways with you minutes too early," he replied, turning his heard in her direction and winking knowingly. "Plus…it isn't as though I never walk home in the dark."

"Just making sure you'd be ok-," she broke off as she went veering over the side of the road, pulling Kai with her, as their hands were connected as a child would be to its mother at birth. They landed with thump on the ground, spraying pine leaves and pinecone flakes in their wake.

Thrusting her hands out instinctively in front of her in order to fend of possible danger, Jill pounded Kai in the chest with such force that he was propelled from her and landed consequently beside her.

"I'm so sorry, I couldn't help it, the branch was right here-," she started, before finding herself in the middle of a kiss.

"I couldn't help that either," Kai smiled.