confession / declaration of love, a confession of one's feelings toward someone

to confess / to profess one's love, to confess one's feelings to someone

blinking in surprise

blink in surprise

(formal) Female third-person singular pronoun; she, her, girlfriend

(colloquial) a girlfriend (a female partner in a romantic relationship)

(literary) they (about women or girls)

to open / to make (a hole)

to broaden; to become wide / to develop; to progress; to improve / (of a person) to be enlightened; to be inspired; (perfect tense) to be sharp or clever

sudden