bctrogues:Before I could answer him he put both hands on my face and kissed me on the mouth. And whi
bctrogues:Before I could answer him he put both hands on my face and kissed me on the mouth. And while I stood blinking — it was over almost before I knew what had happened — he picked up Popper under the forelegs and kissed him too, in midair, smack on the tip of his nose. [–]More than anything I was relieved that in my unfamiliar babbling-and-wanting-to-talk state I’d stopped myself from blurting the thing on the edge of my tongue, the thing I’d never said, even though it was something we both knew well enough without me saying it out loud to him in the street — which was, of course, I l o v e y o u . -- source link
#no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#the goldfinch