She puffed out a bit of air, a sad little laugh at his line, "It sounds like more than 'like like'," she admitted, her voice growing smaller with every sentence. Did he love her? Had he ever been in love? She wouldn't admit it, she wouldn't make a fool of herself, more than she already had any. They still sat so close, so still.
A thought suddenly came to her - and she couldn't imagine it would be an issue, but still - what if after all this? Fevered confessions, whispered intimacies - they kissed and it was awful? Gods, he hadn't even kissed her yet. Didn't all this come after that? Had Romi been doing it backwards all these years? She was pretty sure she'd never had a conversation like this before, come to think of it. Just another way Eddie had been a completely new experience for her.