Look no farther than your hand, Make a choice and take a stand.

I'm the sheen on water, Rin thought. I'm a looking glass. I'm not real.

Sometimes one does not mean to fall in love. Sometimes it just happens

You've been quiet lately...but it's not so much the quiet as something inside the quiet.

All I've ever wanted was to be near you.

... until Miri could not help it any longer and she laughed out loud. The sound broke the game. Peder looked at her. He reached out, and she thought he meant to grab her straw or perhaps yank her hair as he used to when they were little. But her put his hand behind her head and, leaning forward, pulled her face to his. He kissed her. One long, slow kiss.

He would never abandon her, never leave a gaping hole, and even if he died someday, he was preserved like a lab specimen from all the alcohol he imbibed, so he wouldn't look or act much different.