I loved this. So very, very much. It's such a clever take on the "how they met" theme, and also a very clever take on the 5/1 things story, and...Bradley and Colin are both absurdly loveable. I laughed the whole time, except for when I was awwwwwing. I loved Daisy, I loved Bradley doing Stoppard, I loved Colin's endless patience and quiet sarcasm.
Bradley had heard her say "crack" and Colin "clap"
This is the point at which I fell in love with this story.
someday our future children are going to want to know how we met
Or maybe this. I meeeeeeelted.
None of those things ever actually happened in succession. Or at all, really.
HAH. You had me! I didn't realize it was Bradley's skewed version of the story until this.
"Oh, fine," says Bradley. "This, then: Colin grinned, and stuffed his face with fruit to stop from smiling any harder, because he knew that Bradley --"
"Why do you keep talking about yourself in the third person like that?"
HAHHAHAHA. And then his explanation is so oddly...sense-making and also completely not, just like Bradley.
Colin gently smoothes his fingertips over Bradley's hair just because he can.
♥ I love that on top of the mocking and sarcasm they actually do care for one another; that part of the dynamic often gets forgotten, oddly enough.
"I'm sheer delight, Colin. Were you aware?"
YES, YES HE IS.
colour high on his cheeks and the golden fringe dusting across his forehead, framing the sparkle of joy and bright mischief in his clear, blue eyes
Oh, I loooove this, how over the top it is.
lumped themselves in with a group of Germans on a walking tour without understanding a single word of the guided commentary and made up their own historical facts instead
I feel this could be its own story. Oh, make it happen!
And then...OMGOMGOMGOMG the ending. Colin fell in love AT FIRST SIGHT. And Bradley just sort of BLURTED IT OUT about the ring. And...AND OBVIOUSLY.
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Bradley had heard her say "crack" and Colin "clap"
This is the point at which I fell in love with this story.
someday our future children are going to want to know how we met
Or maybe this. I meeeeeeelted.
None of those things ever actually happened in succession. Or at all, really.
HAH. You had me! I didn't realize it was Bradley's skewed version of the story until this.
"Oh, fine," says Bradley. "This, then: Colin grinned, and stuffed his face with fruit to stop from smiling any harder, because he knew that Bradley --"
"Why do you keep talking about yourself in the third person like that?"
HAHHAHAHA. And then his explanation is so oddly...sense-making and also completely not, just like Bradley.
Colin gently smoothes his fingertips over Bradley's hair just because he can.
♥ I love that on top of the mocking and sarcasm they actually do care for one another; that part of the dynamic often gets forgotten, oddly enough.
"I'm sheer delight, Colin. Were you aware?"
YES, YES HE IS.
colour high on his cheeks and the golden fringe dusting across his forehead, framing the sparkle of joy and bright mischief in his clear, blue eyes
Oh, I loooove this, how over the top it is.
lumped themselves in with a group of Germans on a walking tour without understanding a single word of the guided commentary and made up their own historical facts instead
I feel this could be its own story. Oh, make it happen!
And then...OMGOMGOMGOMG the ending. Colin fell in love AT FIRST SIGHT. And Bradley just sort of BLURTED IT OUT about the ring. And...AND OBVIOUSLY.
Perfect.