“I wanted to kiss you back there in the pub, Laurie, and I want to kiss you even more right now. You’re one of the loveliest people I’ve ever met in my whole life.” He looks away, down the length of the deserted street and then back at me again. “You’re beautiful and kind, and you make me laugh, and when you look at me like that with your summer hedgerow eyes…only a fucking saint wouldn’t kiss you.”
From the moment Laurie and Jack locked eyes at the bus-stop, this moment between them feels inevitable. It was, however, really important that neither of them felt easy about it – Laurie is vulnerable and distressed and Jack is moved to comfort her. Heightened emotion breaks down their usual defenses, they act instinctively in the moment and it changes everything for both of them from then on. Writing the kiss… you know, it was almost as nerve-wracking for me as for them!
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