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“Make me see fireworks, Marshal Ralston”

“I think I’m about to do something stupid.”
“Okay.”
Mercy stood on tiptoes and kissed the corner of his mouth on the exact spot where the frosting had been. She pulled away and watched him as he gawked at her and said nothing, and his silence screamed around her until she couldn’t take it anymore.
“Well? Say something.”
“I’m still waiting for you to do something stupid.”

There it was, a truth so evident that it may as well have been painted on his forehead in red letters.
He was helplessly, boundlessly, stupidly in love with Mercy Birdsall.