Then I realized now`s the time.I moved towards her , our eyes were locked. I grabbed her from her waist and said `i really like you and have had feeli...ngs for your from the first day of college. And I want to be with you`. She moved forward held my face and grabbed me tighter for the kiss. I caught her even tighter now, I just didnt want to let her go.Then she pushed me away and I was scared . I asked her ` what happened?` I was scared she was offended or something. She says` the coffee is. Do you see those ripples of land that seem to undulate from somewhere in the middle?" What did you say?" Manahay said."The land isn't..." No, the ripples in the land: show me the ripples," Manahay said, insisting. Taima traced out with his finger the concentric circles with that were leagues wide but definitely got smaller the further out one scanned."Do you understand what you've found Taima?" She didn't wait for an answer. "You've found a relic on the face of the land. If we find the center. ’ ‘Pong? They had a smell?’ There was more to this betting business than met the eye, Trina concluded. ‘Hang on.’ Charlie disappeared to the back of the shop. He returned with a basket of the previous weekend’s dead slips. After rummaging through it, he found what he was looking for. ‘Here. Have a whiff of that.’ ‘I see what you mean,’ Trina agreed. ‘Smells like a tart’s boudoir.’ ‘If you say so, lady,’ said Charlie, straightfaced. ‘I wouldn’t know.’ ‘Chief Inspector it is. What about the other. And each time I saw her, I could tell from the look in her eyes that it was just as hard for her. So we tried to avoid each other as much as we could while attempting to make it look like we weren’t trying to avoid each other.It apparently wasn’t working very well. One night, as they were about to go out, when Maddie headed out to the car, Mark pulled me aside. “Dude, what’s up with you and Maddie?” he asked me. “You two piss each other off or something?”“What? No, I’m not pissed at her, why.