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It’s easy to not realize how much you miss something when it’s been so long, you don’t even remember how it used to be.
And finally, the ocean. Every year I see it, and every year I fall in love all over again.
The water is crystal clear under the sunlight, a blue so deep you’d believe you’re looking at a Van Gogh painting.
“I’ve always been willing to risk a lot of things for you.”
Finally, he concludes his thorough analysis with a simple, “Beautiful.” I feel the word from my hairline to the tip of my toes. It’s not like it’s the first time Will’s ever complimented me, but it’s rarely sounded like that. So breathy. I’m not sure whether I like it or not.
“Send it to me, will you?” he says. “What? Why?”
God, I’m such a sucker. I’ve never been able to resist that smile.
“So there’s an infinity of memories within me, and an infinity of memories within you. But the infinity between us? It’s even grander.”
A minute after the storm starts, my bedroom door opens, and in comes Will with a pillow and his navy-blue comforter, socks I know he will lose at some point during the night covering his feet.
My heart falls off the bed.
He was just a kid like me, so small and frail, but when I told him I was scared, he puffed his chest and acted like my knight in shining armor. Ever since that night, when there’s a thunderstorm during summer, he comes to my room and sleeps on the ground.
Until my bedroom door creaks open and my pulse spikes to two hundred. In complete silence, Will comes inside with the same pillow and navy-blue comforter he had as a teenager, before placing them on the ground next to my bed. I’m frozen in place under my covers. I don’t think I’m even breathing.
This is so fun! We’re sharing so much!
LOLLL i can't. she thinks its fun because of the meds
But right before I’m taken away, I vaguely hear his answer. “You. I think about you.”
I WOULD DIEEEEEE
“I’ve been so proud of you, even from a distance.”
awwww
Every time I think I know everything there is to know about you, you find a way to knock the breath out of me.”
I don’t get most of Will’s drawings on the first try, but I don’t complain, only because I’ve never felt anything better than being touched by him.
“Besides, I could kiss you all night.” He drops a peck on my lips. “You don’t know how long I’ve waited to do this.”
“You’ve always been mine, V, and I’ve always been yours. We just didn’t realize it.”
“I would’ve made more of an effort for you.” “Always my knight in shining armor.”
“I know when you look at me, you see everything that went wrong, but when I look at you?” He licks his lips. “Violet, when I look at you, I still see the love of my life.”
Time stops. My breath freezes in my lungs. The world stops turning. Sounds cease to exist.
“And I really did miss you.” He pulls my head back to his chest, both hands squeezing me hard. “Oh, baby, I really missed you too.”
“I can’t believe it’s a coincidence that out of all the people in their engineering class, your mom and my dad met and connected, and that that connection somehow led me to…” He gulps. “Led me to the most important person in my life.”
“But there’s no other you, Violet. You’re it for me.”
“I love you,”
“I love you, too.”
“We’re not just good. We’re perfect.”
“Because it’s always been you.”
“Oh, you have no idea. Will, hand Violet the phone. We have so much to catch up on.”
crying.this moment is so cute
I’m in love with this man. Again.
“That’s my girl,”
“I’m sorry, baby, but you’ll need to say all that again. I’m still stuck on the ‘I love you’ part.”
“When you left, you said you wanted to be my forever. That’s what I want.”
“And I don’t get an ‘I love you’ back?” He smiles, a supernova in the cosmos. “Oh, baby, I’ll give you a million.”
