Noelle scrutinized her boyfriend. He seemed to be perfectly serious. Nonchalant as always too.
"You…really mean that, don't you?" she asked faintly.
Perry nodded vehemently. "Yes. I am sorry if that is strange. I did not intend to make you uncomfortable in any way."
It wasn't that she was uncomfortable. It was that she was completely baffled. Her world had just experienced a seismic shift and she wasn't sure how to deal with it.
If her boyfriend was already thinking of permanency but hadn't wanted to speak up until she said something, he had to be in love with her. Someone was actually in love with her! Someone who was way, way too good for her. This had to be a dream.
Would it be so terrible to be swept up in it though? She had always dreamed of romance and now it was actually happening! If Perry was serious about her, there was no real reason to say no.
