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 Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 3:39 pm
"Explains the flowers," Maia said, giving Toby a smile. She must have been wonderful. She fell silent, giving his hand a squeeze. The subject had been hard for him last time she'd brought Carolyn up. He'd positively fled.
"Where did you go, on vacation?"
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 3:46 pm
"Oh, where ever. Vermont. Florida. Michigan. Wyoming. Hawaii. We only left the country once, to go to Mexico. It was Colorado the last time. If we could make it in a tent we would. Lots of hiking, exploring outside the tourist area, you know." ******** Colorado.
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 3:55 pm
The last time. It was horrible, knowing what Toby'd gone through. She paused, averting her gaze briefly. "I spent my life on that beach in Oregon," she said. "My first adventure was with you." She looked to him, placing a kiss on his cheek.
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 4:09 pm
Toby wasn't sure why Maia averted her eyes, but he hoped he hadn't made her feel awkward. When she spoke, he smiled broadly. After she had kissed him on the cheek to took her chin gently between his thumb and forefinger and kissed her properly.
"We've barely begun our adventure, love."
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 4:22 pm
Maia returned the kiss, giving him a smile. Their adventure would last forever. "I love you," She said. "Thank you for sharing with me." She reached up and ruffled his hair. All that growing up he'd done, in the pictures; he was perfect.
"I promised you a story," she remembered. "I never went anywhere exciting. But one day, I met these two guys. They showed me what the world was like outside of the ocean, and I couldn't go back." She gave him a quick kiss. "I fell in love with one of those guys." And he'd brought her home.
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 4:31 pm
"I love you too," Toby said, and when the kiss broke he held her hand and stroked it with his thumb. He did love her, amazingly so. He wanted to share everything with Maia, forever.
The story only made him grin and he stole another kiss.
"You forgot to mention that you tried to run away immediately. That's biased journalism," he teased, and then stole another soft kiss. This one lingered.
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 4:39 pm
"I didn't like you much then," Maia smiled at him. "I didn't trust you one bit. Dari convinced me." That was how she'd become friends with the alien; he'd seemed friendlier. She returned the kiss, letting it linger.
"You'd better add your version, then," She teased.
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 4:42 pm
"It's a long more epic in my head." Epic in terms of the actual definition. "Two special agents, undercover, try to save the willful beauty. She fights. One befriends her, the other falls in love and denies it, then weeping calls her back. Worthy of a movie, really."
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 4:50 pm
"At four am!" Maia shook her head at him. "I'd never been so happy to hear someone's voice that early." She paused, grinning at him after a moment. "We could make millions. I'm glad you found me, Toby." So very glad.
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 4:52 pm
Toby chuckled.
"I'm glad I got over myself enough to admit I love you," he said and gave Maia yet another kiss and a little hug. He was so glad. "I'm sorry it took so much."
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 4:58 pm
Maia turned to wrap her arms around Toby. "Dari told me how stubborn you'd be," she said, "It was worth it." Even though she'd hated being away from Toby, even though she'd hated leaving her home, Dari had known what to do. "When I first started having feelings for you, I thought it was an allergic reaction," she admitted, smirking at him.
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 5:00 pm
"What, really?" he asked, "An allergic reaction to what?!" People?! He chuckled and shook his head. "I love you, and everything you are." Her quirkiness, her silliness, her stubbornness, her joy at ordering them around, all of it.
He would marry her. He was sure of it.
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 5:07 pm
"I didn't know!" Maia gave him a gentle shove, grinning at him. "I'd never felt anything like it." She smiled then. "I love you, too," she said. "Everything about you."
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 5:14 pm
Toby just grinned and shook his head. Poor Maia. He had to admit that the fluttering and nerves of love could almost seem like illness. It never got old to hear he was her first love, either. Selkie love hadn't take her by the arm.
"Well, I'm glad. That means I get to keep you."
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 5:23 pm
"I told you that on your birthday," Maia said, smiling at him. She'd given him her pelt, for keeps. "I'm yours." Maybe it hadn't been verbal then, but she'd meant it.
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