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I frowned "I ine doing anything less for you"

She took in a deep breath and tilted her head, watching me "You know…I don’t believe in forodda in the last one to deserve you"

"Maybe we both did so look and time seemed to slow, stretch There are moments that occur, that draw ourof moments before and after them Years later, in your mind, you are drawn to them by an offhand com But seldom did you realize the i them, thestring of seconds where we said nothing but looked into each other’s eyes, seeing pure eht when it happened This was one of the weighted moments, one of these memories I’d savor for years to co on her lips "You haven’t finished your wine for the course You’re supposed to drink it and tell lass I tipped it back and was finally starting to feel a bit of a buzz Elass toward o to waste…"

I threw her a questioning look and ignored the glass The waiter cleared the glasses and plates in preparation for our next course And with it, of course, calass of wine Since this was the lass of red wine

"How is it?" E an inordinate interest in the wine

I frowned "It’s good"

"Sorry," she said, suddenly self-conscious "I haven’t had any wine in a long ti her head

A dark feeling came over me There was before and there was after And it sat like an impassable valley in between our past and our future Everything in me felt heavy with that realization At times I wondered if we’d ever be able to overcoh, I downed the rest of the red ith one gulp, welco overonto the high platform with everyone else I had warned Eot windy and cold up here so she had brought a jacket The monuments of Paris spread out around us, lit up like jewels in a sea of black velvet This city was unbelievably beautiful And so was the wo ide eyes, vivid excite up her features The lacy wrap around her head was an elegant touch as the loose ends fluttered in the breeze Soon she noticed the scattered padlocks clarid over our heads

"Oh, ! Look at these Love locks I e’d thought of that"

I s I reached into olden lock that I’d been carrying in enius with you"

Her grin widened "Yeah, fortunately I did!"

I handed her the lock, complete with key, and a per on it, and I’ll lock it as high as I can get it"

E, then flipped it over and continued to write "You aren’t writing a manifesto on there, are you?"

She smirked "No Well, maybe just a short love manifesto"

She opened the lock, pulled out the key and handed it to ht to read it: EKS + AD I turned it over to read the back: = Nat 20 She’d used the gaons, whicha twenty on a twenty-sided die

I laughed "Now this is a e abovewith one are overhead and clamp the padlock closed Then I dropped back to the platform, where Emilia proainst my chest "That esoetting dropped into the Seine ASAP"

"Mmm We still haven’t hit your bucket list item yet"

"Yeah?"

"I believe it was to kiss someone on top of the Eiffel Tower"