Lio by Mark Tatulli for January 14, 2011

Lio, you are an incurable romantic.

Lio is set for life, he can run heavy equipment.

If that doesn’t soften Eva-Rose’s heart, what will?

A blowtorch.

Eva seems to appreciate this gesture after all!. The First chink in her armor against Lio it seems :D

Is Eva smiling? FINALLY! A crack in the stone! :)

Another thousand such incidents, and Lio might actually elicit a real smile from Eva-Rose. It’s going to be a long time, though.

And that’s okay - I’ve got time.

Retribution, thy name is Lio!

Yay! I’ve missed you Eva Rose!

@dataweaver lol

I don’t think it’s a smile. I think she is figuring out how she is going to inform Lio to mind his own business and let her take care of herself. I’m betting Lio is about to become the arrow through the heart.

It’s the pointy part of the snow heart the REALLY hurts.

raphae- I’m surprised there wasn’t a stone IN the snowball if the kid knows her at all.

Aren’t they running out of classmates by now?

I wanna see Lio’s heavy equipment operators license

I think Eva’s smile is kind of grudging but I think it’s there. Baby steps count as steps, after all.

the pathways of the heart often require heavy equipment

giggles young love! adorable!

White Knight Delivery Service at your assistance!

Great way to come to her rescue, Lio!

And to complete the sculpture, Lio gets out a harpoon gun and shoots an “arrow” into the heart. This, of course, will cause the heart to slowly become a romantic pinkish color.

Is she ACTUALLY smiling!?!?! Yay she finally relized wat a (sorta) nice kid Lio is!

Gotta love that smirk on Lio’s face…it’s a ‘don’t think you can mess with mah girl’ type of look. Eva’s got that ‘you shoulda been here a minute sooner’ look quickly followed by a ‘but I’ll forgive you this time’ one.

Even though you can’t see it, Eva is rolling her eyes. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Lio, you can do SO much better, hon!

That’s so sweet! D: C’mon Eva, you know you want him. B3