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"I know," Mericlou replied with a tiny, cute smile "But it sure was funny"

"That it was"

The tiht If noas not time for that ultimate test, then it would never be He had to know; he had to find out if she felt the sae as best he could, and then slowly allowed his face to lossy lips parted ever so slightly as hisfroeoal

He felt her begin to quiver when she moved her mouth to speak Her voice had lowered to where it was al his lips, mere centiinning of another line?"

"If you want it to be"

"I do"

Closer

"'One kiss is all I ask, fair er hunger … for anything!'"

"Then I believe I ive you this kiss," Mericlou whispered, the last consonants of the word, "kiss," vanishing as their lips finally, at long last, touched each other's

Mericlou and Aldrec together reveled in its sweet release, the long-awaited confir question inside their hearts andthat slow, gentle, delicious kiss, Aldrec discovered soe, but not at all unpleasant It was the fact that not only did Mericlou smell like flowers, but she also tasted like the, you know?" Mericlou said

They reclined together in that grassy bank where they had fallen into each other, both literally and figuratively, Mericlou resting in Aldrec's clasping arlets of green hair, content as children tucked into bed

"It changes nothing for me," Aldrec said

"It doesn't?"

Aldrec supposed he had phrased his sentence wrong from the disappoint in spite of hi that I don't love you; I' that I've always loved you And that kiss sis"

"You know, you always did see," Mericlou mused, "especially in the past three months"