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‘Love?’ Her eyes widened at the word ‘You love me?’ May’s voice broke on the last word but she didn’t care Inside, her heart was soaring as high as the highest bird on a cloudless day

‘Yes’ His grey eyes were intense, his words quiet and sincere ‘Problem?’

‘No No’ She shook her head, a wide, silly grin pulling on her lips before he kissed her She kissed hiht of her life Arthur loved her Arthur loved her and she loved hi to ed

‘You know I love everything about you,’ she said a moment later, the two of them a little breathless ‘Except for the fact that your knee is digging into et coht on top of her, but as she did so he shifted as well, al off the bed In order to stop himself, he reached out a hand to his bedside table for support but in the process accidentally knocked his clock off

The clattering noise as it fell onto the polished floorboardstheir breaths, they stared at each other, waited to see if his parents had heard the noise With the sound of a door being opened and footsteps heading towards Arthur’s roo fast May headed towards the hilst Arthur righted the clock and picked up the scattered biology papers they’d previously knocked to the floor

May just made it out theand over to the branch of the tree, coht, when his father opened the bedroom door

‘You all right?’ his dad asked

‘Yeah, yeah Just dozed off while trying to cram this i

nfory papers with his hand ‘The sooner this exam is over, the better’

His father laughed then said goodnight to his son, closing the door behind hi Arthur to coed off the branch to h the open frao’

‘I know’ She kissed hi all her love and heart into the action ‘I love you, Arthur Lewis’

‘And I love you, May Fleo Get to bed and I’ll see you tomorrow’