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His eyes were twinkling; he couldn’t stop s "You know I adore you, but there are times when I just like to torture you It makes me happy"

I didn’t knohat to say to that I focused on the obnoxious part and ignored the part that made my stupid heart pound faster "Well you don’t have to look so satisfied about it!"

There it was, that most Troublesome smile "Oh, boo, you of all people should know that this isn’t how I look when I’ht into that one Infuriatingly, I blushed "Don’t you use that tone on me," I warned, but it was so feeble that I knew it didn’t faze him

We watched our shohile the cake baked He behaved hi on his couch I didn’t even have to insist He just did it I eyed hi it

We were eating his chocolate cake when I caught hiin his eyes that I couldn’t let stand I could only take sodown e

He kept doing it, until his faced transformed into a too warm smile, a soft, affectionate stare

"Like what?" he asked, and I knew that he was toying with s

"You know I will leave I I’ve just…ain"

I kneas full of it "We can’t go back, Tristan We can’t take any of it back We can’t pretend that you are just you, and I am just me There is toopassed over his face It was hard to naliret, hope?

I discounted it all, even while I felt it It is transient It will go away"

He sed hard, looking anguished for one brief moment before he washed his features back into that soft smile "For you, maybe But not foroing to tell ardless "Because it never went away Nostalgia suggests that the feelings are co back, and they can’t do that, when they never went away"

I couldn’t breathe

I stood up, then started to look around, trying to reot out of there

He stood, his hands going out in front of hih in appeal "I’m sorry That was out of line I’ll behave myself, just don’t leave yet, not when you’re upset like this, okay?"