Tess puts her arms round me, and at once it makes things feel easier, like something in my chest has unlocked. I can't help leaning into her.
"I - it means a lot t'me, knowin' you care fer me like that."
"I do," I say, and I pause, because I'm so careful in my feelings, but I think of the way Lugh just fell down dead, a god, and how fragile life is, and how I lay in my bed afterwards and felt sick thinking I could have died without saying goodbye to Tess. "I think - I know you only told me you, you like me three weeks ago, and I don't - you don't have to feel you need to say anything else, but..." My words are getting tangled up and my cheeks feel hot. "At the party I said I thought I could fall in love with you, but I think it started happening a long time ago, back when you were sick and fell asleep in my chair, only I didn't realise it then." My heart is hammering but I carry on. "You don't - I don't want to spoil anything and we don't have to talk about it, but I just wanted to... say."
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Date: 2009-08-24 12:41 am (UTC)"I - it means a lot t'me, knowin' you care fer me like that."
"I do," I say, and I pause, because I'm so careful in my feelings, but I think of the way Lugh just fell down dead, a god, and how fragile life is, and how I lay in my bed afterwards and felt sick thinking I could have died without saying goodbye to Tess. "I think - I know you only told me you, you like me three weeks ago, and I don't - you don't have to feel you need to say anything else, but..." My words are getting tangled up and my cheeks feel hot. "At the party I said I thought I could fall in love with you, but I think it started happening a long time ago, back when you were sick and fell asleep in my chair, only I didn't realise it then." My heart is hammering but I carry on. "You don't - I don't want to spoil anything and we don't have to talk about it, but I just wanted to... say."