He ducked his eyes as she smiled back, trying to hide the small blush on his cheeks. Sometimes it was hard to track down just whom she was talking to. But that was all right. Everything would be all right.

"I like it very much," he whispered back, a little twinge of excitement tickling down his spine. "We are... making memories already, are we not?" Crap. When he was nervous, sometimes, a bit of a lisp crept back into his speech.