Of course he'd been thinking about it. He was from a time where it was just a natural progression for a couple to move in together if they'd been in a relationship for a few steady months -- though that step would have been preceded by marriage. (And don't think she didn't catch that written between the lines of what he did and didn't say, it was just that somehow marriage wasn't as scary to her as moving in with him.)
"I completely understand all of that, sugar, really I do," she assured him, glancing over at him for brief moments while she carefully dried her hands. "And now that I'm thinking a bit more clearly, it's not so bad, but I still... I want to be with you, all the time. I want this to be my home so badly it hurts, because it's been an awfully long time since I had one that really felt like it. But I'm all sorts of broken when it comes to these things, sugar, and I'm so sorry for that."
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Date: 2017-01-13 07:51 am (UTC)"I completely understand all of that, sugar, really I do," she assured him, glancing over at him for brief moments while she carefully dried her hands. "And now that I'm thinking a bit more clearly, it's not so bad, but I still... I want to be with you, all the time. I want this to be my home so badly it hurts, because it's been an awfully long time since I had one that really felt like it. But I'm all sorts of broken when it comes to these things, sugar, and I'm so sorry for that."