They were just coming up on her apartment now, and her heart was pounding hard and fast, and not in a bad way. He was solid next to her, and strong. She could feel his muscles surrounding her as they walked, and found herself imagining getting to know them a little better. She looked up just as he looked down, and what he said was completely not what she wanted to hear right now. She stopped walking in front of the flower shop, shifting in his hold so that she was facing him. “I do really want it,” she said, lifting her hands to cup his face and leaning in to kiss him, deepening it into something more if he let her.