"Okay. This was good. This was heading somewhere I'd-- "I want to strangle you," she said, her voice hoarse. All right, that wasn't good. Not at all. "You have no idea how badly I want to kick you right now," she added. And that was worse. This wasn't-- "I love you," she said, and she swallowed. "I've loved you since you pushed me down on the playground. I swear-- I've loved you since then."