If you keep running from me, you're never going to figure out what's really going on.

With you, what you see is what you get. And I see cheap.

Human reproduction can be a sticky subject—” “Ewww!” groaned a chorus of students

I want to wake up with you every morning and fall asleep beside you each night.

I couldn't escape him, now or ever. He'd always be there, consuming my every thought, my heart locked in his hands. I was drawn to him by forces I couldn't control, let alone escape.

I trailed off.Patch leaned lazily against the counter. Dark hair flipped out from under his ball cap. A smile tugged at his mouth. My thoughts dissolved and just like that, a new thought broke the surface of my mind. I wanted to kiss him. Right now.

Patch? Whatever happens, I love you." I wanted to say more, those three words painfully inadequate for the way I felt about him. And at the same time, so simple and accurate, nothing else would do.