083. With You

Lucy knew that she was nothing special for so long. But he challenged that idea. Lucy felt like if she let him, Skyler would go to his grave telling her that she was the most amazing person he’d ever known. As long as she had been around guys, she never imagined that she would ever feel like this around any one of them. But she did. She did whenever she was with him. The feeling of his hand around hers was still unreal, but it was soothing and comforting. She felt safe.

Lucy let her head fall onto his shoulder as she swung her feet, dipping her toes into the warm water. The breeze blowing over them as they sat on the dock tonight made it feel like the summer was on its way out. And that would mean she would have to say goodbye soon. And she wasn’t ready to leave. Right now, she never wanted to leave this moment. It seemed like a dream, and Lucy was afraid that if they went their separate ways at the end of summer, they would both wake up and they would feel like none of this ever happened.

As if he could hear what she was thinking, Skyler breathlessly ran his thumb across her palm and leaned down, kissing her hair. Lucy thought that maybe the reason they both kept silent was because that anything could have shattered this moment that they had to share since the minutes seemed to be so few. But Skyler pulled her closer to his side and she could feel his eyes on her. And in that moment she looked up at him to see tears in his eyes for the first time since she’d known him.

“I love you, Luce. I want to be with you forever.”

At that moment, Lucy’s breath caught in her throat and she couldn’t speak as her eyes welled up with tears. She wanted to say it back. She wanted to tell him how much she wanted the same thing, but instead she just buried her face into his chest as he wrapped his arms around her.

I want to be with you, too. I want to be with you forever.

003. Subtle

Normally, he wouldn’t have pushed quite so hard to get to know a person, but there was just something about Lucy that he seemed drawn to. She seemed different than every other girl he’d known. Okay, maybe that was a little much to say after talking with the girl for a total of fifteen minutes in the past three weeks, but he’d never felt compelled to try so hard to get someone’s attention before. He’d never been given reason.

But Lucy, she was different. There were so many things she did, so many subtle traces of hope that seemed to capture a childish sparkle in her eyes. It was the way she seemed to look for the good in everything. She tried to seem indifferent, but you could tell that everything and everyone around her had some sort of impact on her. There was something about her that made him want to be better, that pushed him to try harder.

And this was the first time in a long time that Sky could remember falling asleep and having pleasant dreams. Dreams that he would never tell anyone about, nonetheless, but pleasant dreams all the same. He’d never cared so much what another person thought about him as he did now…well almost never. And he was determined to prove, even if it was just in the subtleties, the small things that seemed to catch her attention, that he was worth her time. Sky wanted to prove that he wasn’t just another guy.

Another New Blog... I Know

I haven't written for myself in a while. Well, I have. I've blogged about the things going on in my life. But now I'm trying to find somewhere to organize my writing, writing that I do for myself. When I want to escape from reality and evaporate into the dreams of another world, another time, another person. This blog is mostly for myself, and so I don't lose track of anything, should I want to add to it or change it later. Anyway, I don't really expect anyone to read it, but in the event that you do, please be aware that the events I'm writing about on this blog, and the names I use, are fictitious and are in no way true.