After calling out to each other, they continued staring at one another till Gordon invited her to return to the clearing with him so they could sit awhile and talk. She shyly nodded and followed him to the clearing.
In the clearing, he sat and she sat too far in his calculations, so he moved closer to her till their noses could touch if they both stretched their necks. May, who hadn't been this close to any male before save for her brother and father, was so shy but also admitted, even though only to herself, that she liked the proximity.
Soon they were both talking like close friends till it got to her story of her eighteenth birthday party the previous evening on which she had not been in attendance. As she mentioned that it was her party, Gordon laughed so hard that she joined in, n
