Alice Clayton

He was everything I__ ever wanted, and everything I hadn__ even known I needed.

I assigned him to help me trim the Brussels sprouts, but instead he kept trying to throw them away when he thought I wasn__ looking. __russels sprouts, Grace, really? These are our friends. Why are you doing this to them?

Hey, if you're going to say what I think you're going to say_wait, are you going to say it?_ he asked, smiling down at me.__es, yes I think so._ I grinned shyly back.__ell, then I think we should say it at the same time, yes?_ he suggested.__ount of three?_ I asked. He nodded.__ne_ I started.__wo_ he said, eyes twinkling.__hree,_ we said together. We both paused, smiling hugely, and then I took a deep breath.__ack, I love you.___ know,_ he said at the same time.Ass__ss!_ I said, smacking him on the arm.__hat was great!_ he laughed.

Always take a compliment, Caroline. Always take it for the way it was intended. You girls are always so quick to twist what others say. Simply say thank you and move on.

My boyfriend likes to fuck my brains out on our kitchen island. Which tile would you recommend for that?

I don__ care how old you are, or what background you come from, there are two universal truths. We will always laugh at_gas if it happens at the wrong time, and we are always curious about what goes on in other people__ bedrooms.

Over the next few days, every knowing glance and furtive look reminded me how much small towns loved to gossip. My mother delighted me each day by telling me what she__ heard. I__ pushed Leo behind a snap pea display at the farmers_ market and wrestled him to the ground. I__ offered him my bagel repeatedly, refusing to take no for an answer. I__ been seen out behind the market, helping him load up his vegetables and been caught holding his cucumber. That was my favorite.

Give it up, mister! No sex for you!" I yelled at the wall as my girls cackled maniacally."Tons of sex for me, sister. None for you!" he yelled all too clearly through the wall.

Don't be ungrateful. Just open it.

Well, I drank enough to sustain a small Spanish village, I haven't had an orgasm in a thousand years, and I will probably die old and alone in a beautifully designed apartment with all of Clive's illegitimate children swarming around me...How do you think I feel?

I agree with you. Everyone gets lonely sometimes.

Hell, yes. I love you; that__ not going to change. I want this, I want you, and I think . . . Oh hell, here comes the Dawson__ Creek._ He grimaced and I chuckled in spite of the moment.His gaze grew wistful, and he looked so young. __ don__ want to put things off, even though we haven__ been together a really long time. I don__ want to wait__ou never know what can . . . Look. I adore you, and I want a home. Again. With you.

And he kissed me . . . slow. Agonizingly, maddeningly, painfully slow.I loved kissing. I also loved what it usually led to, but I was especially loving this part with Leo. The beginning, when everything is new and exciting, and everything in the entire world boils down to sweet feathering lips and quiet sighs. When the stars fade and the earth ceases to turn, its axis forgotten in the wake of things like: which way will you lean and which way will my neck naturally turn, and is it possible that I can actually detect your fingerprints, because my skin seems so alive right now and my nose just brushed yours and the tiny groan that just rumbled from deep in your chest is the most erotic sound imaginable, and gee your hair smells terrific