To talk, she had to stand kind of close to him, and when she did say something, she sort of yelled it to one side so that he could hear her over everything else that was going on. "It's okay... I like surprises." She said more to his right ear than to his face. She grinned and couldn't really keep from hugging him again. Her arms around his shoulders, she held him close.
The nerves were slowly going away, but she couldn't hold onto him forever, could she?