She tries to describe him to her parents when she goes back home, and all she can say is, "Bouncy. He's very bouncy."
"Bouncy," her mother repeats tonelessly. Her father frowns, confused and vaguely angry.
"Is that what you kids are calling it —"
"No!" she exclaims, cheeks flushing. She sighs, leaning on the hotel counter. "Bouncy like…like nothing could hurt him for long. Like he could jump off a building and be just fine." She smiles to herself, warming to her topic. "Bouncy like he's the most cheerful person in the world. Bouncy like he has more fun than anyone."
Her mother nods slowly, allowing a slow smile to smooth her worry lines around her mouth. Her beautiful daughter who once said that she would never get married, that she would never settle down with some man, made those worry lines with her cool sarcasm.
"So, do you love him?" asks her father gruffly, straight to the point, and her mother watches the reaction of her daughter closely. She opens her mouth, shuts it, open, shut, like a fish. Her mother's smile grows.
"How does he make you feel?" she hints as her daughter meets her eye and suddenly matches her mother's grin.
"Bouncy."
AUTHOR'S NOTES
Sorry about the hiatus, anyone who care; it's been a pretty crazy few weeks. Anyway, this couple is one that, technically, doesn't exist until Animal March comes out. But I just think it's so sad that they would end up alone in T.O.T. without the farmer… Anyway, this couple is Luke and Selena from Tree of Tranquility!