he kissed her. a kiss about apple pie a la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie heat. a kiss about chocolate, when you haven't eaten chocolate in a year. a kiss about palm trees speeding by, trailing pink clouds when you drive down the strip sizzling with champagne. a kiss about spotlights fanning the sky and the swollen sea spilling like tears all over your body. and there were a lot more of those kisses after that.