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The door shuts behind us
The sound of the party instantly die, very dark, and very earden We’re in the A, but it feels as if we’re back in Paris thanks to a gorgeous pair of flickering turn-of-the-century electric street lauard left them on for us
"What," I whisper, "was that?"
"We," Josh says at nor a break from the soirée"
My heartbeat accelerates "We are?"
He takes my hand – the way he did at school, comfortable and relaxed and himself – and strolls me past the street lauard? How do you know hiether over the years" He sees ht
"I was the odd one out I was the youngest in each class, by far Chuck was one of the few people who treated me with respect"
"Then I like hiular kiss on my lips "This way"
He moves forward, and I follow "I assume you set this up – whatever it is – with Chuck in advance?"
"There were a few people involved I’ve had some time to prepare," he says slyly "But we’d better hurry, we only have twentyas I’ a nondescript, though no doubt priceless, artefact"
"Only if we’re caught"
I stop
He tugs me forward by our clasped hands "Coift shop, and we’re no longer in Paris, we’re in Barcelona – two crazy kids running away to discover our own private world Exploring Taking risks A sharp right, and we enter an even darker and evenelse Anyone who has visited this museum would know it
"The Temple of Dendur" Josh says it with a finality that tells yptian sandstone teued But baffled "Any particular reason?"
Josh shrugs in a way that’s al pool I kind of just wanted to sit beside it and make out with you"
It’s actually the best answer he could have given e beside the pool The reflecting pool is beautiful in its dignified silence An entire wall of this roohts of the city twinkle inside the still water We sit down The air is cold, the granite ledge even colder He takes off his tuxedo jacket and swings it up and around my shoulders And then he uses his own lapels to pull me into him His mouth is warm We slip into each other as if no time had passed between now and Spain If there wasn’t a thousand museu hih