"Medusa, you make a lot of noise for such a small person."

"Whatever."

His bulky arm went up and rubbed some grease off his forehead as he spoke roughly " Are you not going to express how much you missed me?"

Tutting at his cockiness, I crossed my arms "I was taught it is bad to lie, Lurch."

Stone stepped forward. It was only one step, but I know what he is doing. It was like an animal playing with its food before it pounced.

He motioned to my arms "What you were not taught was how to hide your lying."

"Excuse me?" I asked, tightening my hold around myself.

The large hands grab mine in his before he raises them above my head. He then took both of my wrists in one of his hands as his other palm rested on my stomach as he spun me around. His warm breath was felt on my neck as he pressed up behind me.

"Like I told you earlier," He let out lowly against my earlobe "You either cross your arms or play with your hair when you lie."

I tilted my head upwards to meet his eyes.

"You did miss me." He stated.

My head shook violently as I tried to deny it. I tried to argue against something that I was obviously lying about. My whole body was screaming out the truth. That I had missed him.

I blinked and he had rounded me. My hands dropped to the side as he sent me a malicious smirk.

That was before he picked me off the ground.

My legs dangled as I was lifted into the air. The height difference meant that I had no other option but to wrap my legs around his waist.

That was what I told myself. I used that reasoning to cover up the fact that I was very content with where I was.

I punched his chest lightly as I questioned "What are you doing?"

It was strange to be at face level with him. I usually had to lean on my toes or nearly break my neck trying to look up at him.

I liked the view from up there, wrapped around the giant. I could study his expression better.

His hard defined facial features showed that he was serious when he proclaimed, "I am not letting you down until you admit that you missed me."

"Well, it is a good thing you have got large muscles because I’m not admitting that any time soon." I declared stubbornly.

He did not do anything. Except move his hands to my hips as he studied me.

Minutes later and we were still in the same position.

It did look like any of one of us was planning to move anytime soon. We were as stubborn as each other.

It took every ounce of strength to restrain myself from reaching out to him. To touch him. I liked everything about him and his stupid face.