Sydney I stood frozen in place blinking slowly with hands over my heart as I watched Maddox drive away. Now that I think about it, I seem to have developed this kind of mannerism since I’ve met him where I gape, blink a lot, become stock-still, and then repeat the whole process in the same order several times until I am able to come back down from Mars. I don’t know how it even got to this point. All I can remember is, he spun me around and we kissed. We really kissed and he initiated it. It wasn’t the kind that you’d mistake for a see you later kind of kiss between friends. It was a full-on make-out sesh. The kind that makes your toes curl and your heart racing. Ten minutes. It took me ten minutes to become functional again. As usual, he went in and out like a hurricane, leaving me with

