i love you

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We clamber up the stairs eagerly tripping over each other as we ascend. Eventually we arrive at my door and I turn the painfully rusted handle to allow us access to my chambers. I plop down onto my bed and await Luna who is standing awkwardly by the door.

"Come" I speak and she wanders over to me. As she nears I notice her shaking hands and immediately take them in mine. It takes me a moment to realise that her whole body is trembling. "Is the foul temperature much to your distaste?" I joke. "No, in fact it is extremely pleasant" she replies with no hint of humour displaying on her gorgeous features.

I study her intently possibly anticipating a break in her serious facade. After a few moments I detect a flash of hilarity in her eyes and she notices that I have indeed defeated her weak facade. Following those events we break into hysterics.

After a while we return to our regular state and reality hits me with immense force. The only reason we came up here was to ready me for some misogynistic suitors. It pains me that I can not just come up here with my love and spend a lifetime staring into her cerulean eyes. It torments me that in this life it is a sin for us to be together. It tortures me constantly how she is right at my fingertips yet I am unable to hold her closer.

My heart and soul ache for her. What would I be if I were deprived of her? I would suffer. The thought brings me great discomfort.

"Elizabeth?" Luna's voice startles me and I look up from the floor that my gaze had settled on, much to my unawareness. "You must get ready" she states factually. "Would it be such an inconvenience if I did not?" I ask her, dreading my meeting the suitors. "Yes indeed it would be such an inconvenience, now get ready" she replies fiercely and turns away from me.

"Luna"... she ignores me. "Luna" I say a little louder yet still she remains silent. "What thought has the honour of occupying your mind so?" I inquire gently. "It is just incredibly difficult to believe that after all this, you are never going to be mine". Her answer has me at a loss for words.

I stare at her in bewilderment. "What?" I ask her, ensuring that I did not imagine. She turns around and meets my gaze "oh do not act so foolish Elizabeth, you can not be so unaware to the fact that I am deeply in love with you." At the words that fall from her beautiful lips I feel my whole body go rigid.

"Do not tease me so Luna, you can not mean that" "I am utterly surprised that you had not deciphered my affectionate actions towards you sooner" "so you are truthful?" "Yes Elizabeth"

I stare at her in awe of her newfound boldness. "I know it is wrong to love another like me but I can not ignore the longing desire for you which I posses" "I share that desire" I state and nervously anticipate her reaction. She advances closer to me from her seat to my side on the bed.

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