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She took the red plastic disk fro to keep her hand steady "Sure" Her voice was still too breathy, her lips still tingling But now that he’d ive theh distance between theure out what she was, and wasn’t, ready for

She kne to throw the Frisbee now, remembered precisely how he’d moved her hips and feet and ar every ounce of her attention on the basket across the field, she drew her arainst her nose

Giving a s her, she couldn’t quite keep her grip on the Frisbee before it went sliding out of her fingers

Straight toward Sean

"Look o--" Her warning dried up in her throat as the Frisbee slammed into the center of his forehead

She ran over to where he was lying on the ground with his hand over his forehead and got down on her knees beside hi, just groaned, she tried to explain, "I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to hurt you There was this bee and I was about to throw the Frisbee and the next thing I kneas flying in the wrong direction"

"Nice velocity"

For a moment, she was sure sheHe couldn’t have just co, could he? Especially not after she’d just felled him

"It was an accident, I swear I’m so, so sorry!"

He uncovered his eyes, and she was horrified by the red burow on his forehead as he reached up to wind a lock of her hair around his fingers "I knoas an accident And I’ve been hit by plenty of harder things on the baseball field and lived to see another day But none of the guys throwing those things at me were as pretty as you Or had hair quite this silky"

Though her heart was still racing froht that she’d hurt him, he always kne to make her shed, rather than groaning again, she said, "Let me help you up"

"Probably best if I lie here for a little while longer"

The next thing she knew, he was tugging her down to lie next to hio the entire ti the puffy clouds transfor sky

"So," Sean said as they were heading away from the field, "when are you free for our next nor until the sun had set At the middle basket, he’d pulled so water out of his bag They’d sat with their backs against a tree to have a really nice alfresco ly, after her terrible beginning she’d actually started to get pretty good at the ga, she’d really enjoyed spending time with him, especially when he told stories about his brothers and sisters and growing up in the Bay Area She’d even told hi her years of hts on campus for her to clearly see the buer, but it hadn’t gone away, either