[You're too nice, Milly, he thinks—but is glad for, all the same, and returns the kiss with a hand on her arm; it's amazing, he thinks, that it's taken him so long to actually learn the power behind a kiss—a real one, that has something to it.
When the kiss ends, there's a natural flow of pulling her close to him in a hug and pressing his cheek to her ear (so, so unfamiliar, so unseen for most of his life), staring quietly across the dimmed room.]
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When the kiss ends, there's a natural flow of pulling her close to him in a hug and pressing his cheek to her ear (so, so unfamiliar, so unseen for most of his life), staring quietly across the dimmed room.]
It's all okay.