[ He has a point, if nothing else, but she finds herself thoroughly derailed by the way he looks at her – intent, focused – and the tone of his voice is somehow unfamiliar.
(How often does she really hear something so genuinely uncertain? It's unguarded and downright vulnerable.)
She doesn't even need to think about her answer. ]
Yes.
[ It comes so naturally, too, because— she wants him to kiss her.
And the fact that he asks is so much more in his favor. He could have assumed (and he would have been correct), but giving her that agency and the option to turn him down warms something in her chest. She's appreciated that about him for longer than she's truly realized, and now, she fully understands what he's given her by asking first.
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(How often does she really hear something so genuinely uncertain? It's unguarded and downright vulnerable.)
She doesn't even need to think about her answer. ]
Yes.
[ It comes so naturally, too, because— she wants him to kiss her.
And the fact that he asks is so much more in his favor. He could have assumed (and he would have been correct), but giving her that agency and the option to turn him down warms something in her chest. She's appreciated that about him for longer than she's truly realized, and now, she fully understands what he's given her by asking first.
... But the answer is still a wholehearted yes. ]