"Thought about it, yes," he sighed, raking fingers through his already-rumpled dark hair. "But thinking and experiencing are two extremely different things." Smiling with sunny overself-confidence, he added, "Nothing I can't handle though."

The chuckles finally leaked out at her assertion about his head. "Pretty? Now see, it's swelling already. But I'm quite sure I can rely on my family to give my ego the regular puncturings it needs to let out all that excess hot air and self importance."