Silence. Heavy silence, punctuated just with their breathing. Something flared in his eyes and she broke their gaze, her eyes moving to his mouth, to trace his lips and his jaw, as her toes curled in her shoes. She closed her eyes, unable to believe she’d voiced that to the boy she had been half in love with most of her life, the young man who had become something so important she didn’t even have a name for it anymore. She felt the air between them change, the woodsy scent of his signature cologne that she loved permeating the space between them. His breath brushed over her face—warm and
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