It’s getting increasingly more difficult to resist the urge to lift my arm up and drape it around her shoulders so that we can cuddle as we watch all the explosions and chaos happening on the screen in front of us. I figured that since she said no romance, war is basically the exact opposite of that and might be our best bet. There have been no complaints from her, but there hasn’t been much from her at all. I’m feeling very insecure, and I really just need to touch her and feel her against me for reassurance that she doesn’t completely hate me after I turned her down earlier.
It might even be that all the scenes of death and destruction are triggering some protective instinct deep inside me, though I’ll never admit that to her. I don’t think she’d take kindly to hearing it. But just abou
