in this world it's hard to get it right.

You wanna fade and we can has a new one? :D MY HEART CAN'T TAKE ANYMORE OF THE FEELS <33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333

Finley leaned into him as he embraced her, shifting her weight to snuggle even closer to him like a little tick. The thought actually popped into her head and for a moment, she felt compelled to let him know that she was being his 'love tick'. She awkwardly bit the words back, though.

Being so emotionally vulnerable was something so new to her that it felt almost like a raw wound - not painful at all, but extremely sensitive, as though even the tiniest further comment about how she felt about them and their relationship was simply too much for her romantically infantile brain to handle. Even though she'd finally spit out the most important confession of all and that would seemingly have cleared the way for all of the other, smaller ones, she still felt far too needlessly nervous to utter another one. So, she kept quiet as she simply enjoyed the feeling of getting to hug him.

Well... That is until her giddyness morphed into mischief. With a cheeky little smile, she lifted her head from his neck and slid her muzzle up towards his ear. "I'm still the better beta..." she whispered with a grin, shortly after giving his ear an affectionate prod with her nose.