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“I don’t know,” Philip said “Why don’t we find out?” He lifted her hair and began kissing the back of her neck

“Cut it out,” she said, swatting at him

“Why?” he asked

“Okay, don’t cut it out,” she said “Let’s have sex and get it over with Then we can go back to being as ere”

“I ly

“You will You always do”

She ran into the bedroom ahead of him and took off her shirt She still had those small rounded breasts that always made him crazy He stripped down to his boxer shorts and joined her “Re?” she asked

“Which thing?”

“You know—that crazy thing where you lie on your back and put your feet up and I go on ”

“You want to do that thing?”

“Co him onto his back

For aher aran to buckle, and she collapsed on top of hi, too, at the sheer silliness of it, realizing he hadn’t laughed like this in a long time It was so siether, doing nothing but playing on the bed, ames That was all they’d needed

She sat up, brushing the hair out of her face There it was, he thought He was falling in love with her again He pulled her down and rolled on top of her “I may still love you”

“Aren’t you supposed to say that after we have sex?” she murmured

“I’ it before” In unison, they slipped off their underpants, and she held his penis as if weighing his hard-on