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She laughed aloud, short and low, but true laughter. "Honestly, I don't think there's many ways that I can top that. And if that's the case, love, then I'll get you a card and some pez and be done with it." Now she was teasing, especially since she already had an idea or two for what to do for his oh-so-important 18th birthday.
This time when she turned to look for the joint he passed, she noted that her head felt a bit on the heavy side. Taking the hit, she extended her arm toward him to hand it back without looking, instead continuing to look up at the sky.
"Aha. I knew you had something up your sleeve. Though you usually do, so I'm not really that surprised. You don't really have to do anything grandiose, you know. I'd be happy with a kiss and a cupcake." Which was true. But she also felt the thrill of knowing that he was planning something for her birthday. She had suspected but not truly known yet.
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As she turned her head toward him, and he kissed her hand, she became very aware that what they had just smoked was catching up with her quickly. She made a happy sound at the kiss, perhaps a little longer than she intended, and when she spoke it was thoughtful and introspective.
"Well, like, ok. I thought I knew the sorts of things that I was capable of. Even a year ago. And then you came around and I'm... drinking at parties, and tackling you on the bed, and... well, laying on your car, smoking pot and watching the stars. Nothing like those things would have appealed to me then."
When Rowan smoked, she tended to not think her words through as much before she said them, if at all. It showed in the way she spoke now.
"I never knew I could be so... myself with you. I feel like I can let my guard down more and just be myself, and maybe do the things that come to my mind. Now that... well, your birthday happened... I... there's..." It wasn't stuttering so much that was making her keep pausing, it was trying to find the right words. "I like being with you. And when I am... it's like I don't have to pretend I don't want something." She paused a moment. "Did any of that even make sense?" she asked with a quizzical expression.
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It was nice, laying there and holding his hand and just talking about things that she normally would have stuttered and stammered over. She couldn't remember for the life of her, however, why she had ever been nervous to talk to him.
Thinking about that, she almost missed what he said. "Oh, I'm glad it made sense to you, here, now. Not that it was meant for anyone not you, there, some other time that isn't now. But... you know what I mean." She gently ran her thumb over the back of his hand as she spoke again, looking up at the stars once more.
"I know what you mean. So, like, has there been anything that amazed you about yourself recently?" The curiosity in her voice was almost a tangible thing, but that star over there on the right was really blue and pretty so her head stayed facing right where it was.
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