Oh, you’d like that, wouldn’t you?<\/p>\n
Be right up your street!<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Hey, It’s not my idea – <\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 but it is you know, kinda cute.<\/em><\/p>\n I’m onto you, little miss Smart Arse,<\/p>\n with your Johansson skin & your ‘Come here’ giggle,<\/p>\n and those perfect eyes all Helloooey & smiley,<\/p>\n that chin so proud & cuppable!<\/p>\n With that face always there, as though you mean it!<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I do! I do – though I’m not entirely sure<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0what I do mean or in fact <\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0what I’ve done to make you act like this?<\/em><\/p>\n No? Yeah? ‘Not entirely sure’?<\/p>\n Like you don’t know,<\/p>\n with your niceness and instant wake-up positivity,<\/p>\n your weekend hips<\/p>\n and those, those<\/p>\n undefeatable things, all, just, all…<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 What, these? Breasts? Mammaries?<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Boobs? Tits? Bazonkas? Fresh, wet, puppies?<\/em><\/p>\n Ah, I see what you’re doing now!<\/p>\n I see what’s going on!<\/p>\n Distracting me with an ambush grin!<\/p>\n Next you’ll be telling me that<\/p>\n you actually like me being around?<\/p>\n Start employing your \u00a0feminine gills<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Guiles?<\/em><\/p>\n Gills! Ills! Wiles! And that girl power thing –<\/p>\n where you make me question if I should defend you<\/p>\n so if you got picked on<\/p>\n you’d do some of your special Kung Fu<\/p>\n and try not to laugh when I end up in casualty!<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 You want to protect me? <\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Bless! That’s sooo nice!<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 But you don’t need to, honestly.<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I just…<\/em><\/p>\n What? What now ? ‘<\/em>I just’ what?<\/p>\n You waiting for me to confess?<\/p>\n Bare my soul? Tell you something<\/p>\n you prob’ly already know?<\/p>\n Tell you how I can’t live without you?<\/p>\n How my life’s got so much better<\/p>\n since you’ve put the rugs straight and<\/p>\n thrown the blown tins so I don’t get<\/p>\n another dose of food poisoning?<\/p>\n That I hate it when you go away<\/p>\n and when you do a big shop you take so long<\/p>\n I feel like my lungs’ve turned inside out?<\/p>\n That I only stop feeling sick when<\/p>\n I can hear you breathin’?<\/p>\n That I fucking Love You?<\/p>\n Is that it?<\/p>\n That what you wanna hear?<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Don’t be daft, honey – <\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I know that already.<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 You show me every day.<\/em><\/p>\n I do?<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0You do.<\/em><\/p>\n Well, what are we talking about, then?<\/p>\n I really, really don’t know.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oh, you’d like that, wouldn’t you? 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