"I stumbled and you," She wrapped his arms tightly around her and then clasped her own around his back as she finished her spoken sentence, tilting her face toward him, "Hugged me - tightly." She instructed, waiting to feel his grasp tighten around her before she rested her head against his shoulder. It was overwhelming being like this again, feeling the comfort and strength and reassurance in the embrace. Her heart beat rapidly knowing what was coming next. Her cheeks flushed as she allowed herself to consider that moment in the past more fully than she ever had.

Her words came out in a whisper choked with embarrassment, "I told you....." Sisse squeezed her eyes shut in embarrassment, but he had to know. Somehow she had to tell him the full depth of that moment - that it hadn't been the loss of the kiss that had broken her so thoroughly, but of what had come before it. "...that I felt like a nuisance all of you tolerated." She couldn't look at his face now so instead she looked at the curls of his black hair. She let out a shaky breathe, "It was foolish." She tried to lie, but it had been so important then. She'd been so shattered, the world around her had seemed so strange. Everything then was changing. "I tried to step away." She admitted, stepping out his embrace, but she caught up his hand in one of her own and guided it to her wrist, "You held me here." She told him, her eyes meeting his own. Oh her cheeks were warm, her heart practically flying, the memories layered around them. That one, this one, the ones between them. "You told me I wasn't." Her eyes didn't leave his. She was baring her soul again, it so many ways than just that moment in the past.

"And I," She leaned up and toward him and placed a gentle kiss on his cheek, "Kissed you here." She whispered against his skin before she sank back down to her toes. "And then you," Her eyes met his lips then back to his eyes, "Kissed me." She leaned forward to allow him to do just that again.