I can't let them go!

- Alice, wait, - I picked her up and took her by the hand, - no need to leave.

She sighed to argue once more. I just took her chin and covered her lips with a kiss. Short, innocent - after all, there was a child nearby. But I tried to put all the tenderness into it, which I seemed to never have had.

- I am drawn to you, - I admitted, - yes, we met by chance, and from the outside, this whole story may look like a fairy tale. But I already have the feeling that we are not strangers. I do...