[ Ai takes in the look on his face for just a few seconds too long and with a look in her eyes that's just a little too bright, too intense.

This is too much. Saying it to tease him, to rile him up with neither of them are really thinking straight but looking each other in the eye totally clearheaded and choosing to say it anyway...

It really is too much. It really is too soon.

They're much too far gone to be saved.

Her mouth twitches into a tender, uncertain smile for just a second. And then with a big performative sigh; ]

Aah, I guess I really am stuck, then... if there's no getting out of it, there's no getting out of it.

[ Her arms settle around his neck. ]

You'd better start acting like a proper husband, then. If we really are stuck.