A second chance at love

" Stop laughing. "

" I can't. " I reply looking towards Xander as I hold my stomach tightly because it's aching from laughing so hard, that I want to stop really want to stop but I again start laughing. " what is surprising is that you are not laughing. "

" If you are telling me that I am not amused then you are wrong, I am amused but not as much as you. " I believe him because his lip twitching is enough to tell that he found it funny but being the Xander that he, I know is not going to let loose.

He does but rarely and mostly when he is in only my presence.

I don't know why men like him, are not comfortable expressing themselves.

Their reactions are so measured as if they overexpressed then something blizzard will happen.

As much as I love the fact there are things that he has reserved for me only and feel very special about, I want Xander to open up. I want him to express himself apart from his intensity.

Do men like him think that if they expressed themselves, then