"First of all, I need you to stop throwing the word erection around so casually." Though he laughed, mostly because her first reaction upon waking up was indignation, he blushed because she kept saying it and he really didn't think she understood that it wasn't a word one typically heard in polite company.

He had a host of reasons why he didn't think she felt the same, namely because they were such good friends and he also hadn't wanted to take the chance to ruin their friendship. And well, he was Nemo, what exactly did he have to offer her in life? The youngest son in a huge family, barely twenty-five, unable to support a household for a few more years, he didn't exactly have a lot going for him.

She said she loved him too though and that had to count for something. He smiled slowly, squeezing their joined hands affectionately. Nemo moved off the floor and onto the sofa next to her. "I promise," He said softly. That he could handle, the rest was up in the air, there were so many outside factors now that he couldn't even begin to wrap his head around it all.