There was just the slightest, briefest startled as Kamala came up and wrapped amher arms around her, but it melted even more quickly than her awkward embarrassment had, just as she sort of melted back into that embrace.

Could they maybe just stay here all day? Just like this. Eleanor wouldn be more than okay with that option.

She rested her hands on Kamala's and turned her head over her shoulder for another kiss, this one decidedly not just on her cheek, either.

"You already missed class," she said, "but you didn't miss much. We went to Kansas. For the world's biggest ball of twine. But I took pictures to show you."

She sort of figured that Kamala could make even a giant valley of twine fun and exciting.

"But that also means we shouldn't have anywhere else we need to be."