snippet: Falling

"If I jumped, would you catch me?"

He smiled, wrapping his arms around my waist, and pulled me closer. He whispered something into my hair as his lips pressed against my throat in a soft kiss. He knew that I was asking whether, if I fell, it would be a beginning or an end. His hand moved up my spine to rest at the back of my head, his thumb brushing back and forth across the fast-beating pulse. He knew, I knew that he did, and he knew that I knew he understood...

But he didn't answer.