The L-Bomb

The other day, (as uncle Travelling Matt used to say) Little Red and I had our first date-like experience.  I hesitate to call it a proper date, considering we're not really official as yet, but enough rambling.
First, we went to a movie.  It ended up being Brave (which I actually did enjoy), since she'd told me before she didn't like scary movies. In retrospect, this was kind of a dumb play on my part.  I probably could have convinced her to go to the scary movie, which would have worked out better in terms of the movie makeout experience.  She was already in the mood, but there are certain things you just can't do at a family movie, even if nobody's looking.
After that, we meandered to a local pub for dinner.  Our waiter was a friendly guy, who sort of reminded me of myself, oddly.  He was getting the date vibe from us, which I suppose should have been expected, so we kind of sidestepped the hints and vague questions.  Dinner was quite good, although it was a rather large meal of fish and chips for me, but the walk to my place helped settle things.
Once we got to my place, we did the usual sort of things we do at my place.  After we'd tired ourselves out once again, we laid there cuddling for a while, and then, possibly due to the beer I'd had with dinner, I used the L-word.  (hint:  it wasn't lesbians)  As soon as the words left my mouth, I felt kind of like this:

So, this led to a long semi-whispered conversation.  Ultimately, Little Red's still not sure about the whole thing.  She likes me a lot and I make her happy, but she's not sure it's love yet.  She appreciated my honesty though, and she still doesn't want to do anything that might hurt me.  Personally, I think that's a sign that there are underlying feelings stronger than she realizes.  I'm not quite sure what happens next with this.  I keep thinking of Amy's comments on my previous post.  Seems she was pretty right about things.  I'm a little scared that what I've done now will change things a lot, and then I'll lose Little Red somehow, but we're still talking, so I guess that's a good sign.  Until then, I'll just keep on speaking my heart to her, and I'll listen to this song when I get scared of those words.