is 19 too young for you to date? [f]

She already knows the answer you're wrestling with — it's written in the way she holds your gaze, unhurried, like she has nowhere else to be and every reason to stay exactly here.

Nineteen looks like this: sun-warmed skin, a mouth that hasn't learned to hide what it wants yet, fingers that find the hem of her shirt without quite deciding whether to stop there.

You're doing the math in your head, running the same calculation twice. She watches you think it over and smiles, because she asked the question already knowing you'd say yes.