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Prompt #42: Braille - He took her finger and dragged it across the paper. "It takes practice, believe me."

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"Apple?"

"Yeah, good job." Auggie smiled as he directed her fingertips to the next line of raised dots. "How about this one?"

"Um..." She sounded unsure, but focused. "Hmmm, that's a T...U...R..." She faltered, cleared her throat, and dragged her finger over the dots again. "M?"

Auggie shook his head. "No, N. They're similar, but there's another bump here." He showed her what he meant. "See?"

"Yeah. Sorta."

"Are your eyes still closed?"

"Yeah."

"Liar."

"I'm not looking at the page." And she wasn't, really. She was too busy looking at Auggie's face as it hovered over her shoulder.

"I know. I can feel your eyelashes against my cheek." Annie scowled and started to pull away, but the arms around her tightened to stop her. "Hey," Auggie protested, nuzzling her neck. "I never said I didn't like it."

"Auggie, that's distracting."

"You've done more delicate work when the room's blowing up around you. How is this distracting?"

She squirmed in his grasp, eyelids fluttering as he feathered kisses down her neck and behind her ear. "You know damn well why."

"I still wanna hear you say it."

"Because it's you," Annie admitted. She swallowed a moan as his lips pressed against her skin. "I've told you before, you're mesmerizing."

"And while that's always nice to hear, you said you wanted to learn Braille."

"So stop distracting me." Focusing on the bumps beneath her fingertips, Annie closed her eyes and slowly slid her finger along the word. "T...U...R...N..." she spelled aloud. "Turn. Okay, next word." She tilted her head away from Auggie's distracting lips and concentrated again. "A...R...O...U...N...D...around. Turn around?" Confused, she turned around and saw Auggie holding a small box out to her. A velvet jewelry box, about the size of a...

Taking the box from him, Annie flipped open the lid and frowned at the contents. "A dog tag?"

"That's right." Auggie pressed a kiss to her cheek and moved her index finger to swipe across the tag's cool metal surface. "Can you read this?"

Annie smiled as she felt the bumps. I...L...O...V...E...U... "You're such a dork, you know that?"

"I warned you about that before you married me, if you'll recall."

She rolled her eyes, then added, "I'm rolling my eyes, Auggie."

"You love it, admit it."

"And make your ego swell even more? No way." But she still pressed a kiss to his lips. "You're incorrigible, you know that?"

His wide Cheshire cat smile was answer enough.

Aren't they cute?

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