Oh man … hug around the waist, perfect .

It just seemed like her. Funny that you focus on one little detail like that. :)

Well, it’s a small, soft, intimate detail. One that appeals to my romantic sensibilities. :)

nice story. nitpick: the story goes out of its way to introduce a fancy word in ‘a small copse of trees’, then sounds clumsy when it doesn’t use that word in the next sentence.

What fancy word? A “copse” is simply the word for a group of trees. Look it up. I could have used “group” or “cluster” and it would have read the same. I just used “copse” because it was the more precise term.

I think it would have been awkward to say “in the middle of the copse”. And yes, you really don’t use the word unless you’re talking about trees.