Story was edited so some of the conversation was removed. It was minor though.

Cute story and had to read for the use of Tim and chestnut eyes reference (since I recently put a character with chestnut brown eyes in one of my stories). Nicely described shift from friend to attraction there in the second part. I know it’s part of a series, but the first section really felt out of place with the second part. And that one sentence ending, “…regretful it was so.” felt kind of clunky and overdone.