This is for the people who read Endure already! If you are.. ahem, "Team Astley" you'll love it... but if you're anti-Astley, then don't read this...

Disclaimer- I DID NOT WRITE THIS! THIS WAS ALL FROM THE BRILLIANT MIND OF Carrie Jones. I JUST WANTED TO SHOW MY LOVE FOR PAGE 208 IN ENDURE... IS THAT SUCH A CRIME?

"You don't have to say it back," I whisper.

But he does.

"I love you, Zara. I love you and I cannot bear to lose you to this-this" He searches for a word. "This war. You are human now and so vulnerable."

"So are you," I interrupt.

"I am a pixie king."

"And you can die. We are-"

His head moves even closer to mine. "Do you remember kissing me?"

"When you turned me? Of course." I shudder.

"No, in the parking lot of that grocery store- Hannaford's?"

He whispers these words into my ear and I remember. I remember feeling guilty about Nick. I remember feeling that it was right. I remember pushing all those feelings away. But now… now I wrap my fingers around his waist, touching the leather band of his jacket, the edge of it, and pull him closer. He lifts me up onto the counter. My feet dangle free.

"I whisper back, "I remember."

And then I kiss him, because sometimes you have to take a risk, because sometimes you can't wait anymore. Our lips meet and call out, pushing toward each other. The world turns silver like his real eyes. My body seems pointless. It is just souls meeting, gesturing against each other, needing and hoping.

"You won't turn me [back]?" I ask, pulling away.

"We cannot risk losing you." His words whisper against the skin near my lips, heating it. "I cannot risk losing you."

My hands find his hair. My fingers sink into the softness of it then our mouths meet again. In the back of my head, I hear something. A door?

If you read this w/o reading the whole book series, then I hate you... enough said...