Tagged: Love (951)

Every night she pulls lint out of his belly button. She collects it until she has enough to make a sculpture. I love you this much, she says

When he saw the car, he says, This is a whole other level of love. And she remembers the slight and can’t wait to throw it back in his face.

He said Let’s huddle and she said What did you say? and he said I said let’s cuddle and she said No, you didn’t. It was like that all night.

After a whirlwind courtship they settle in to a pleasant domesticity until one day he wakes up and says, When did you stop being so perfect?

He buys her jewelry and expensive dresses and days at the spa and she kisses him and says, Thank you but I could not be prettier if I tried.

They had been a couple for years. Long enough that one day she could say, You need more fibre. And though he did, he lamented the suggestion

They were both dizzy from the swoon of that first hit of infatuation but he was unsure of his footing and asked, Is there a manual for this?