Haha...to be fair, you would have deserved every right to. I probably would have joined in, too, with a pretty hard kick.

[He knows he screwed up big time. He's done a lot of screw-ups, but that? It hit way high up there and that's saying a lot.

And while he could tease her about her admission...the thoughts about the weeks before has dimmed his early enthusiasm, so he just rests his chin against the top of her head as he continues to hold her.]

So which is better—the real thing or the imagination?

[...Okay, he can do a little teasing. But his voice has much less of that joking tone to it.]