‘Hey,’ she said.
‘Hey.’
A joined smile offered her a seat and she took it next to him. She sat with him on that step for at least an hour. They covered just about the first three months of a relationship while pretending they weren’t going to be in a relationship. All Jemma wanted to do was teach tiny people to be happy tiny people and one day have her own tiny people in her own class. She said she wasn’t afraid to say it defined her. It was her life mission.
‘There’s an angel in every tiny person,’ she said.
‘Probably Lucifer,’ said Salvador. It was fifteen odd minutes into them knowing each other but Jemma already wanted to tweak him or punch him, more a desire to touch him, but not yet, too soon.
‘Don’t be mean, they’re the goodness in the world before it starts leaking out. I want
