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Kieran and Arabella stood in front of the door to her room, they had been standing there for a while now. Kieran did not invite her for tea and it was obvious from the way he was clinging to her and the way she could not let go of his hands that they were not ready to be apart yet.

"I guess we should say good night now" Arabella finally let out.

"Good night?" Arabella could not tell if she heard him clearly ask her or if her mind was playing tricks on her. She pressed her lips into a line and nodded her head.

"Or" she began with a squeaked voice as his eyes brightened up with expectations of whatever it was that she was about to suggest.

"Do you want to come in?" she asked. He went silent. He did not know what he was expecting but not her being this forward about the situation. He felt a bit flustered, she had been the only girl who had managed to make him feel that way a couple of times.

"Just for a minute so your legs don't hurt from standing out here since you have been standing