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February 7 - February 20, 2024
“I’ll walk for days if it’s you I’m walking with,”
“We’re going to go in there and you can pick out a book from every floor and something from the cafe and I’ll buy it for you. If you want special editions, I’ll get those too, no matter how much they cost, and I know how expensive they can be.”
What’s that saying? What’s mine is yours, right?” I squint my eyes. “Yeah, but we’re not married.” He rolls his eyes and slings his arm around my shoulder instead. “Not yet,”
If I knew a bookstore could make my girl this happy, I would have taken her a long time ago.
The best part of having a girlfriend is by far holding hands. Yes, I might have one hand occupied with a basket full of books as we make our way through the shelves, but my other hand is completely tethered to hers. I’ve never truly enjoyed these small acts of intimacy until I met her.
She makes the simplest of touches feel like my whole body is about to erupt. Her kisses are soft and smooth. Her hand-holding is God-like and it makes me want to curl up into a ball and snuggle into her forever. Her hugs make me want to die and come back to life and I can barely fathom the sex.
“Tell me, Cat, have you ever read about a guy finger fucking his girlfriend in a bookstore?”
I try my hardest to swallow back the emotion in my throat as I look at her, but just being with her makes me want to cry with how lucky I am.
She’s managed to calm the storm of my life so easily and I love her more than I did a few days ago, if that’s even possible.
“Yes, my girlfriend,”
She feels like half of my soul.
“You make me sound so smart,” I say, pressing a soft kiss to her lips, “like I actually know what I’m talking about. Like you just get me.’’
“I love you, Connor. I have so much love for you that it drives me crazy. I’m in love with everything about you, everything you believe in, everything that you are. I’m in love with all of you. Wholly. Completely. Everything all at once.”
time I really saw her when I was seven years old and I just knew she was it for me.
“Sometimes, when I think about you too much, I get dizzy. It’s like my body doesn’t know what to do with all the love that I have for you. It’s maddening.”
“You’re looking at me like I’m going to disappear.” “No, I’m looking at you like I love you,”
“It won’t feel good for you.” “Sit the fuck down and I’ll show you just how good it feels for me,”
“You’re the best thing that I’ve ever had, Connie,”
“I don’t think I’d ever be able to let you go.” “I wouldn’t let you, anyway,”
and I get this warm feeling in my chest. The warm feeling.
“Grow with her,” she repeats. “I like the sound of that.”
go. I want to spend the rest of my days on this earth in moments exactly like these. Without thinking, I mutter into her mouth, “Jesus, just marry me already.”
