Okay, now no one's mind is in the gutter, exactly, but Beast seems to have abandoned his reserve and seems to be (finally) convinced that Beauty is possibly safe to be affectionate with, and her express permission has released him from his promise not to touch her.
Beauty, however, keeps getting her "just good friends" tower of evidence undermined no matter how many times she tries to stack it up again.
It's been a long, peculiar, stressful, groundbreaking, exhausting kind of day with extra emotional honesty and enchantment aftereffects thrown in. How will things look in the morning, when they're rested and rational again?
Assuming they get to "rested and rational," since the chapter isn't over yet... O.O
"my studiomate is telling me they need to just make out already, but she's wrong. I know what kids today are into, and it's absolutely no physical contact for 300 pages and then" HE PUTS A FLOWER IN HER HAIR.
YES.
SLOOOOOOOWWW RELATIONSHIP BUILD.
SO ADORABLE.
I APPEAR TO HAVE BROKEN MY CAPSLOCK, WHICH IS STRANGE SINCE I NEVER ACTUALLY USE IT OH LOOK MY FINGER'S STUCK ON THE SHIFT KEY BECAUSE FEELS
AWWWWWWWW! No, Beauty, the Beast doesn't want to keep the book - he wants to put the flower (a spring of lilacs?) in your hair! And the way he gently strokes her cheek - oh, my shipper heart! <3