A Daydream Away

Jack’s POV

We gazed at each other in silence. A small smile played on his lips, but mine were quivering. All the spoken and unspoken words hung in the air between us, and I didn’t want him to breathe them in.
He opened his mouth to speak, but I started first.
“I’m not scared anymore.” I whispered, gazing at the ground “I told my parents and my mom kicked my dad out of my house. I’m not sure what’s going to happen.”
Silence, and then a pair of comforting arms wrapped around my waist.
“Well, you have me. I’m not going anywhere.” Alex’s warm voice murmured into my ear “Everything’s going to be okay.”
I clutched him tightly like I was afraid he’d drop into the earth and disappear again.
We stood there with each other on my front porch for a lifetime before our lips finally found each other. After ten days of loneliness, the warmth felt like bliss.
I smiled into his mouth and reached my arm back to twist open the doorknob. Without pulling away I wrapped my hand around the front of his shirt and pulled him inside with me. I felt his tongue slide over my bottom lip, begging for access. I denied him, tugging harder on his shirt.
“Tease” he whispered into my lips.
I giggled in spite of myself, making Alex do the same. There were butterflies in my stomach and they were fluttering around so fast that I felt like I was going to throw up. My hands shook and I couldn’t stop smiling. We kept walking backwards, and I didn’t even notice we were making our way to the living room until I hit the couch and fell backwards, causing Alex to fall on top of me.
He laughed, pulling his head up so he was looking down at me. “Our life is such a cliché love story.”
“So? I’ve always loved those.” I replied, making him laugh again.
He didn’t respond, instead he connected our lips together again. Every moment was filled with passion, and I allowed our tongues to meet. He took me over in a quick battle for dominance, but I didn’t mind.
Soon, I was being tugged forward into a sitting position. He broke away from me and his brown eyes bore into mine. It was an unspoken question that I’d been waiting to answer. I smiled and nodded, allowing him to pull on my hand with a devilish grin that only came out on rare occasions.
I connected our lips shortly once more before he tightened his grip on my hand, leading me upstairs.
The walk up stairs and down the hallway was the longest of my life. My heart probably beat 5 times for every quick step we took together. I hoped he didn’t know I was shaking from my core out, or that my hands were sweating.
So he pulled me inside of my room and for the first time the blanket of insecurity that masked his face was gone, and he looked like the most beautiful thing every created. I could take the look on his face and compare it to mountain ranges all over the world or every single picture of a sunset and nothing, absolutely nothing, could be as beautiful as him in this moment.
I kicked the door shut with my foot to make Alex laugh. The night air swirled around us through my open window, but we didn’t notice. That night, all we saw, felt, and thought of were each other.
And that, my friends, is what bliss feels like.

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