" From Chloe's Secret--coming soon

“What are you saying?”
“I’m saying I want to have a relationship with you. I want to love you.”
“Is there a ‘but’ coming next?”
“But the funny thing is, when I didn’t want to love you—it happened anyway.”
He slipped his arms into my back pockets and hugged the breath out of me. I choked, my eyes stung. “I don’t know what to say.”
He smiled. “Say whatever you want to. Just because I said it, you don’t have to.”
He was right; I didn’t have to. He wasn’t asking anything of me. "

― Shelley K. Wall