Mad Woman✓

19. Quiet

"Why don't we find somewhere quiet? Quiet.... I wanna go home with you, yeah we can do whatever you want to." 

   Joe

I find a spot in the small McDonald's parking lot and park the car there. We just arrived in Bakkafjörður, the village in which we've bought a house. We can pick up the keys to the house tomorrow.

We don't have anywhere to sleep tonight - there are no hotels nearby. So I guess we're sleeping in the car. In this parking lot.

The way here was long and.. Interesting. Especially when Taylor was 'feeling hot' and zipped open the complete front of her dress.

I never thought to have sex on the side of a road in an old chevy truck, but you can't predict everything in life so it seems.

I would do it again, though.

"Stop thinking about me naked on top of you. Here, this one's for you." Taylor places a box with a burger on my lap and then hands me my fries and the cup of sauce.

"Did you know that there was this ten-year-old burger and fries from a McDonald's in Iceland that survived, like, ten years or so? Without becoming mouldy!"

"Ew, no! How is that even possible?"

"I have no idea. I don't think they even froze it or anything. It just sat there for ten years." "Nasty", she says, scrunching her nose before taking a bite from her burger.

"Very nasty", I agree, bringing multiple fries at the time to my mouth, "These are good though."

Taylor nods, her gaze finding mine. I smile at her and she sighs.

"What?" I ask.

"I'm just so incredibly happy with you.... I really hope that everything is going to end well.. With you."

"I am incredibly happy too. Everything will end well. For both of us together", I say. And I know that it is a dangerous thing to promise. But I really think we will be fine.

We will find a way to end all of this.

After finishing our food, we're both tired and lay in the trunk, staring at the starry sky and the large moon above us. We're covered in warm blankets and lie close to each other.

"You see that?" Taylor says pointing up towards the sky, "It's the shape of a frog." "That cloud or those stars?" I ask and she laughs, "The cloud, you idiot." "It looks more like a rabbit if you ask me." "Well, I didn't ask." "Okay then", I chuckle.

She places her head on my chest and only a few moments later her breath turns deeper and she's asleep. I twist her hair in my fingers and sigh.

When I first met Taylor, I thought she was beautiful - gorgeous - but I had never expected to sleep with her that night. Let alone see her ever again after that.

But there she was and now here we are.

Even though we're both scared. So scared... I don't think I have ever loved someone as much as I love Taylor. I don't even think I have ever been this happy before. It is a weird feeling. There's so much happiness, yet so much fear...

But every time we touch, that fear seems to be disappearing.

I know that we're still in the phase where we can't stop touching each other... But it's different than it was with other girls before I met her. I love her so deeply.

I would risk my life for her. Literally.

I don't think I ever would have risked my life for anyone before, except for Mom and Patrick. But they're family.

And Taylor...

Taylor Alison Swift is the love of my life.

Once this is all over, I will ask her to marry me. Ask her to have my child and grow old with me. Be with me forever.

And I hope she'll say yes. I hope she loves me as deeply as I love her. I'm a hopeless romantic. People have made fun of me for that.

But now I have Taylor and maybe I haven't been super romantic towards her... I definitely feel like a hopeless romantic. Because the only way I see my future is with her.

I never believed in soulmates. I never actually thought about it much. Grace was always talking about how she and Draven are soulmates. And I always nodded along, cause yes; they are perfect together. But me having a soulmate? I didn't think anything of it. Couldn't even imagine it.

But now this beautiful woman is lying on my chest. A woman who is scared to death. And yet, she trusts me. And I will do everything to keep that trust. To be worth her love.

"You're the love of my life", I whisper, "My soulmate." And it sounds so right...

-

I wake up to cold spatters of rain on my face.

The sky is getting lighter even though it's raining. Taylor is moving off my body, "It's raining. We should get inside the truck." I nod and help her silently out the trunk.

We're both cold from the chilly air, our noses red.

"What time is it?" I ask and she shrugs as she lies down and her eyes flutter shut again. I smile, kissing her cheek. I check my phone to see it's almost six am. It is early, but I'm awake now.

I decide to let Taylor sleep and slip out of the car to get a coffee at McDonald's.

When I come back, Taylor is staring angrily at me, her eyes basically shooting fire.

Ohhh, God......

"Why didn't you tell me where you were going?" she yells at me, "Don't you know how worried I was? I thought they had taken you- I thought they'd found us and silently pulled you out of the car and then slaughtered you! Or whatever they're planning on doing with you. Don't do this to me again!" The anger in her eyes softens, but I can still read the panic in them.

Tears swell up in her eyes and I pull her against my chest, "I'm so, so sorry. I didn't think. I was gone for only five minutes and you were asleep. I didn't want to wake you up. I know how little sleep you get."

"That's- so nice of you." She sighs and pulls my face to hers, "Don't do it again." "I won't. I did get you coffee."

"Did you get me coffee, or did you get yourself two?" "I got you coffee. But I would not have let it get cold.." "Hmm. Right answer. Kiss me now." "Alright then", I smile, closing the few millimetres between our lips.

She wraps her arms around my neck and I pull her closer. She breaks away and grabs a cup from my hand, "I love you."

"I love you", I say and she smiles so brightly. I would do everything in my power to always see her smile like this.

"Not as much as I love you", she says, her cheeks flushing red and I shake my head, "Impossible." 

Bit of a filler chapter but the next ones are going to be much more exciting I promise((: