by PerilEyes
Read your first line again: "Clarissa climbed defensively climbed"? I almost didn't read on . . .
And I realized I wrote the wrong name in the description too.
Really like the ending (well, not that it came so quickly). And it's great that they aren't having sex by the end of the third paragraph (generally, I hate that). I too almost stopped reading early on - seemed like there were a couple of typos and I nearly dismissed the story as probably annoying. Glad I stayed with it, but you might look into someone to proofread it for you.