Always Been You

by Q.B. Tyler

“Hi, beautiful.” I can hear the smile in his voice too, just like whenever he talks to me. I fucking melt.

The way I feel as if I can’t breathe when she’s around. The way her voice, her scent, her everything disarms me. The way that my protectiveness has slowly morphed into something else. Something closer to possession.

“Gabrielle.” He turns around and I can see the anguish in his features. Does he…feel the same things I feel? “In another life…” he leans down, “I’d make you so happy, and it just kills me sometimes that it can’t be this life.”

“This has nothing to do with me being drunk,” I whisper. The last thing I want him to think is that alcohol caused these feelings. “If it is, I’ve been drunk since I was thirteen.” I speak the words of finality. The words I can’t take back. The words that make it very clear what I feel and how deep the feelings go. “I want you.”

“I want you to do anything…everything to me. Fuck, James. I want you to break me.” She whines. “Turn me inside out and fuck me in a way that’ll make me yours forever.”

“Am I there?” “Where?” “I’m trying to fuck my way to your heart.” “You’re already there,” I tell him. “You’ve always been there.”

“It’s going to be tough, but what is realistic anyway? The beauty of life is we can create our own reality.”