"I know. But I'm pretty much always going to have fantasies about punching people who hurt you."

"I love you too." 

He really really wants to kiss Sasha. 

But he doesn't. 

"I love you... too too?"

"Hug me?" 

Extremely grateful hugs!

"I don't want to hurt you at all."

"I know you don't. And — you haven't hurt me in a way that lasts. 

We'll figure it out." 

"You can tell me when I'm being an ass and I'll try to stop. No promises on my ability to understand what I'm doing wrong."

"I'll do my best." 

She pauses, and then kisses him. 

Asher loves her so much and loves kissing her and attempts to express this sentiment as best he can.

She loves him too. She knows he knows but it's still important. 

Lev has completely failed to notice any of this happening. He is buried behind an increasingly large pile of books.

He waits until Lev closes one book and starts to open another to tap him on the shoulder. 

"Wha?" he says. "What time is it? --What day is it?"

"It's a little after two. We got here last night." 

"Cool." He rests his head on Marlo's stomach. "Did I eat?"

"Not very much. Raine's here." 

He glances up and processes Raine's existence for the first time. "Raine! What are you doing here?"

"Taking some time to think. Asher convinced me." 

She looks happier than Lev's seen her in more than a month. 

Now she will be happy with a lap full of Lev.

So she will! Lev is very soft and good and warm and kissable and wow it has been a long time. 

It has been such a long time!

Raine is extremely pretty.

Mmmm. 

(The longer Raine spends here the more sure she is that going back to her parents would be the worst decision she has ever made in her entire life.) 

"You're here!" he says. "Now Marlo and I don't have to go back to camp!"

...they were going to go back for her. 

"No," she says, and kisses him again, "no, you don't." 

"That's good. Camp is kind of awful."