Teach Me How to Love You
If you ask, I'll grant them.
He looked up at me, the smile that had been building through the letter widening even further.
"Three?"
"Three."
"I'm thirty-two. Shouldn't I get thirty-two favors?"
I laughed. "No. You get three."
As dramatic as it sounded, I had specifically chosen three, for the three words in I love you, though I certainly was not about to tell him that part.
"Do I have to use them now, or whenever I want?"
"You can use them now, tomorrow, next year, whenever you want. But once you've used all three, that's it. No more lifelines."