(A small but reasonable assumption! A tiny overstep of warm implication! An easy retraction with the playing field left wide open to be stumbled right into!)
There's something else. Something about it being wrong. But not being wrong. Too. About already being spoken for?
That thrums with a well-worn refusal to have been forgotten. Anywhere. Ever. Jean frowns. The box of chocolates in her hand almost too solid against it. ]
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[ Except as readily and easily the answer comes:
(A small but reasonable assumption! A tiny overstep of warm implication!
An easy retraction with the playing field left wide open to be stumbled right into!)
There's something else. Something about it being wrong.
But not being wrong. Too. About already being spoken for?
That thrums with a well-worn refusal to have been forgotten. Anywhere. Ever.
Jean frowns. The box of chocolates in her hand almost too solid against it. ]