“Is your name just Kelly?” Josiah puffed his cheeks and frowned, looking lost. “What’s your last name?”
Kelly looked down and stayed quiet.
Josiah laughed. Who cared what her last name was? A name was just a term of address.
“Alright, I’ll take you for a walk!” he said and was going to leave the room.
“Hey, you…”
Kelly tugged him back before he could walk away.
Josiah paused and looked down… He still had no pants on!
He flushed immediately and looked up at her in a panic, forcing a smile that looked more like a wince.
Kelly was amused by it, and there was finally some color on her pale face.
Josiah ran back inside the dressing room frantically and pulled on a pair of pants before he took Kelly for a walk.
The fall night was beautiful. The porch was in the sun the whole day, so there was still a warm sunlight scent now. It was quiet all around, with occasional bird chirps and dots of light that seemed like fireflies.
Kelly took a deep breath and closed her eyes gently. Standing on a porch and breathing freely like this felt like the last lifetime to her.
“It’s nice.” She smiled and opened her eyes to look up at the navy sky.
“What?” Josiah was confused.
“I’m saying it’s already a rare thing for me to stand here and breathe fresh air like this.”
Josiah was simply more bewildered. “Don’t you usually breathe? Or do you wear a breathing mask?”
Kelly looked at him and giggled. For some reason, they had just met for the first time, but it felt like they had known each other for a long time.
It had been a while since she laughed, and he was the reason she laughed tonight.
He had pressed her against the floor earlier to hide her from those men… Her heart sped up at that moment, and it felt like it had never calmed down until now.
As Kelly smelled the fresh scent on his shirt and took in his masculine figure, he knocked the doors to her heart that had been long shut off again.
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