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“Well I guess we all need that person in our life, to remind us what we can do,”
I’m wondering if that’s just the way things go in life. Age brought us together, age will tear us apart.
“I’d give her up for you,” I tell her, staring at her relentlessly until she’s forced to meet my eyes again, if just for a second. “I’d give up everything for you.”
Here’s a new decade full of responsibility you didn’t remember signing up for.
“Isn’t that the best person to want? The person that knows you inside and out. The person who has seen you at your ugliest and most beautiful and still wants to be with you. The person who believes in you and has your back, no matter what.” Then his smile fades and his brow furrows. “You’ve always been more than a friend to me, Steph. Always. You have no idea how I’ve felt, how I still feel about you.”
“Yes. I did. I couldn’t wait. I couldn’t pretend.” “Pretend what?” she asks and I can barely hear her soft voice above the noise of the bar. “That I want nothing more than to put you on your back, on this table, and show you what it’s like to really get fucked.”
“Nine years. I’ve been waiting nine years for this. Nine years to finally have you the way I’ve always needed you.”
“When you’re young, you see the world in black and white. When you get older, you realize it’s always been grey. Same goes for love.”
“But really, you’re my everything. And there’s nothing that will change that.”
“And so, I love you, baby blue. I am in love with you. You are love to me. And I’m honored I’m finally able to tell you.”
Life leaves scars. Sometimes you don’t see them until later. Sometimes you don’t know where they’ve come from. Sometimes they fade before your eyes. But the world leaves its mark on us.
“I have been your best friend for nine years. I want to be your whole world for ninety more. You are everything I could ever want – a friend, a lover, family – wrapped up in one fantastically hot package.”
“I’ve learned so much with you all this time and I want to learn more. I want to grow with you, evolve with you, laugh with you, and please you, until I’m old and grey, until I can’t speak or hear, until the only thing I can do is love. That’s the one thing that will never end – my love for you.”
I realize life isn’t a linear journey. Sometimes it’s one step backwards, two step forwards and then a jump out to the side.
Life follows many directions and hopefully, eventually, your mind and body and life and love, all catch up with each other.
