"hey lailani! wake up!" a male voice whispered and giggled.
"hehehe, austin! get off of me!" she yelled, opening her eyes, staring into austin's beautiful hazel ones glinting in the sunlight.
"well get up then, sleepy head!" he smiled at her, rolling off of her.
she kissed austin's cheek and then got up, completing her morning routine, austin watching her the entire time.
"psst, lani." austin poked the girl, giggling again.
"what, austin?"
"i wanna take you somewhere, c'mon," he picked her up and start carrying her out the door until he heard little footsteps behind him.
a little dog started barking when they got to the door and lailani giggled, "armin! stay inside, boy!"
the dog whimpered and trudged back inside, looking at the two.
"alright, fine, hop up here buddy!" lailani smiled and patted her stomach as to tell the dog to sit up there, allowing the dog to do so.
"good boy, armin!" she smiled as austin shut the door and continued carrying her and armin down the road.
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soon they reached a large, grassy field, where they sat and stared at the clouds.
"hey austin?"
"yeah, lani?" austin said, scrunching his nose up and squinting up at the sky, watching a bird fly past a few clouds.
"what if all of this," she motioned to her surroundings, "isn't real?"
"c'mere," austin opened his arms to her.
she scooted closer, snuggling into him.
"touch the grass." he instructed and she did so.
"now face the wind," he said and she did.
"then touch my face." austin instructed.
she examined his face closely before cupping his cheeks with her small hands.
"does all of this," he placed his hands on her waist and moved them up her sides, "feel real?" he placed a small kiss on her jaw and rested his forehead on hers.
she bit her lip, her cheeks flushing a bright pink color and nodded, smiling.
"then it is real, my dear lailani grayson." austin lightly pecked her lips and smiled.
"good, cos i don't know what i would do without you, my dear austin." she pecked his lips back and buried her face into his neck, slowly drifting off to sleep.
