Ashton didn’t seem to mind me tugging at the corners of his lips as he continued, "Do you know what you said when you kissed me back then?"

"I don’t know, and you’re definitely making all of this up," I replied quickly, unwilling to accept the possibility that I had done all these embarrassing things as a child.

“You said it was a stamp,” Ashton explained calmly. “You kissed me and said that because you stamped me, I was yours. You declared that when you grew up, ...