He said, she said

Current mood: fond reminiscence

"You don't say 'I love you' very often," he said, with an observant and slightly (just a touch! the merest smidge! a veritable hair!) petulant air. "In fact, I say it far more often than you do!"

She drew up short and replied, considering, "I guess you're right. I wonder how that happened?" She puzzled over this for a moment and then shrugged, "Oh well, I said it first."

And that was the end of that.