“Come on Shaw, just a little kiss. It's my birthday and I missed you so bad.”

“This is what I have to offer you Shaw and just like you let me be your first, I'm letting you be mine.”

“Shaw, what if I did love you?”

“I kissed her.  I kissed her so thatshe could feel my regret, my desire to do right, the way that she had a pieceof me now and I wasn’t letting go.  I kissed her because I had to and kissingher made me feel better.  When I lifted my head her mouth looked puffy and dampand her eyes were glassy with banked passion.I missed you too.”

“You have to promise not to bail on me when I get lost, Shaw. You have to promise to just wait it out until I can find my way back. I need to know you’re at the end of the tunnel when everything goes black.”

“Here's my heart Shaw. You have it in your hands and I promise you're the first and the last person to ever touch it. You need to be careful with it because it's far more fragile than I ever thought and if you try and give it back I'm not taking it.”

“Rule if this goes bad it’s gonna be so, so bad.” Her voice was just a husky whisper against my chest.“True, but if it’s good it’s going be so very, very good.”