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“I know,” she answered quickly “You’re going to kiss me”

“Yep That I a her down until she was sprawled acrossmy nose Her scent was all around me It was in me, and I felt it as if it was alive As if it made me alive

She was so warroan, I rolled her over so that she was beside me, on her back and tucked into my arms

For a few seconds, her breaths fell rapidly, little puffs ofin the air and then disappeared like the fireflies along the edge of the maze

“What are we doing out here, Nate?”

“Just wait You’ll see”

“See what?”

I pointed to the sky and turned to watch her as she followedof the et here, but according to the reports online, the big shoas just about to start

We lay like that for about tenme up The soft sounds that fell froirl had her own rhyth, and it was addictive

I could spend the entire night watching her

I knehen the first wave of h to our side because Monroe’s eyes widened along with her smile Only then did I look away and turn to the sky

“Holy shit,” she exclaimed “What is this?”

“Asprays arc across the sky The last time I’d watched one had been a few years back Trevor and I and a few guys fro with a couple of six-packs We’d stayed the night Got wasted and watched the sky

It had been pretty cool, but nothing co out here under an endless sky with Monroe tucked into ed there

We watched the light show for hours, it seean to shiver, I pulled the blanket over us and wrapped us up like a cocoon I felt…peaceful, and I would have stayed that way forever if I could have