Hollow Highs [h.s]

20.

"Tell me your secret Harry." Eliana said, staring out the large night sky.

So big.

So vast.

"How can you still glow, how can your bones still be of sunshine when you're with me, a cloud, gaping darkness?" She said. Her hair blew back, the stars in the sky reflected in her brown iris.

He smiled and took her face in his ever glowing hands. "Darkness and clouds my love, cannot keep the light out of me." He kissed her forehead gently with his serene lips, silencing her thoughts.

"Say, I'm like the moon. I'll always have light in me, no matter how dim or dark it is outside." He said, a faint smile on his face on his lips.

"But.. but light and dark can never be together. It's not the way life is. It's not the way it should be." She said shaking her head. Harry could only smile at her, he dragged her close to him.

"I fell in love with the way you cradle me to sleep every night. I fell in love with the way you bring me peace in my heart, how you embrace me wholeheartedly every time the sun disappears for me and how you soothe my sunburns with kisses." He said.

He shook his head, evaluating what he said for a moment before continuing. "No, I fell in love with your darkness too much to leave you." He said.

He knew he was in trouble the moment he heard her laugh and his heart danced to the symphony of it.

"Something about you just tells me that I'm going to love you forever."

There was a flower in her heart, it only needed to bloom. And when she let it free, she showed the world that there are certain things, birthed in the dark that can grow to be a beacon of light.

Her flower, bloomed when his light fell on her like rain.

How does love feel like?

For Eliana, it felt as if all that had been lost was now returned with so much more.

All she saw when she looked at him, was someone who had hung the stars, the moon, the sun and the sky that she craved so dearly. All she saw when she looked at him was love.

She fell through great heights for him. It didn't matter if the world came crashing down, it didn't matter if she died right now, it didn't matter if all the stars in the sky came falling down.

The only star she would ever need was right next to her.

"I love you."

She took the fall. She took one last breath and jumped off the cliff, her eyes closed, her heart beating faster than anything.

She fell for him like raindrops, slowly. And that's how an ocean is formed.

He kissed her. He kissed her without warning, without permission. Without even deciding to do it, but simply because he couldn't do anything else. He needed the breath she was holding.