Folding Lauren into himself, Jason felt her breathing. 

“You’re the perfect fit,” Lauren said. “You know?”  Though she’d decided this the night they’d met, she hadn’t mentioned anything to him then.  At the time, it would have made no sense, but then she figured nothing good ever did.  He’d become her own personal hero, like Super Man or Ronald Reagan, only real.  Saving her from herself, and a past relationship history stifled by illogic and general indifference, though Lauren wasn’t really sure what she’d gained instead – she just knew it was something better. 

“I’m not smashing you,” Lauren said, “am I?”

“No,” Jason said.

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