<em>~ ........together we fall.....? ~</em><br/><br/><br/>Nicci realised that Mila thought she didn't want to kiss Marcus.......  but she did, very much.  She felt awful, now Marcus would feel he had to kiss her.  What was upsetting  - there was nothing she could say that wouldn't make it worse.  Mari's challenge had been for her and Mila, not Nicci, she gripped her mug, what should she do?  It seemed that what ever she did would be wrong.<br/><br/>Her heart was open, open to all of them, in fact she already felt ….. hoped...... wished for so much.  She found her eyes tickling with suppressed tears. "It is open," she whispered to Mila, "Very open," her eyes dropping as she struggled with the emotions inside.  She'd coped with the rejection from Mari, but she just couldn't cope with it from Marcus too.........  not him.  To taste it on him would be so very painful, to wait for that spark that said he wanted her, that would have been wonderful.<br/><br/>She felt Bo's withdrawal from her, and wondered if she'd failed him too in some way. He hadn't wanted to kiss her in front of the others, so perhaps......... She swallowed, what a roller-coaster, such happiness and such uncertainty in the blink of an eye.