Whitebark Stream All my fears could be Irrelevant

Every time they touched her body hummed with a strange electricity. 
She was young, naieve, chasing pipe dreams. All she knew was that she wanted to be friends with him forever. She wanted him to look at her the way her father looked at her mother. She wanted to laugh with him, and tell him all about her life. She wanted him to teach her the strange language he spoke sometimes, and maybe she could teach him a few Greek words. She wanted him to be happy with her. 
If that was love then she loved him thoroughly and completely. 
He started to offer to share something about himself and she nodded, smiling. 
"I want to hear anything and everything. I could talk to you for hours." She laughed softly. He bounced excitedly...he had a brother? "I haven't met him yet, but I would love to...I wish you could meet my family..."