Status Updates From All Fired Up (Hometown Heat...

And I love it and it's the most gorgeous ring I've ever seen and I'm never ever taking it off.

(But you have to take it off to put on the wedding band first ... )

hopefully you'd rather be crazy with me than sane without me.

"So does that mean that you ... forgive me?"

"It means I don't think you need to be forgiven."

(Way to go, Naomi, for defusing the situation. I thought Jake was going to stew in his stubbornness for more of the chapter.)

Pretty soon it feels like the entire world is sparkling. Sparkling. Like too much champagne, like a hundred cameras flashing at once. Mick's kiss is that dizzying, that blinding. ...

I want to stay right here, marooned on an island of kiss-generated warmth while the rest of the cold world spins on without me.