#a certain magic

Can't you see? Have you been blind all these years? Haven't you known that it has always been you? Always?

He opened his mouth over hers.

A friendship that was agony to continue but that would be a living death to lose.

For there is no guilt in harboring a forbidden love.

You never did collapse. Only your eyes showed what was going on inside.

I am so glad I was with you. I am sure no one else would understand. They would have been impatient with me . . . You understand how I feel.

But good-byes are hard to say . . . when a friendship is a very close one.

She longed for it and dreaded it.