Her face lit up as she saw me; I waved and crossed the road. As I closed with her, my heart (already running at a breakneck speed) went properly off the rails. She was so tall, and her hair fell like a waterfall of Midnight's ink...
I stumbled the last step and she caught me; we laughed as if we were old friends instead of two girls who'd only just met one another.
"Clumsy!" she scolded me with a grin.
"I know. Sorry," I giggled. I pulled back slightly and stared up at her, trying to assemble words more profound than "Hi."
But "Hi" it was.
"Hi", I said.
"Hi," she answered. "You're late."
"Only five minutes..."
"Unacceptable!"
She looped her arm through mine. "I'd love to drag you down Malden Road in my normal stomping ground," she began, "but I'm afraid we're just going to have to
