campfire

six

let me like you.

let me like you.

let me like you.

those words, those four words lingered inside her head in an unrelenting way. it wasn't even a direct I like you, but a let me like you that is clearly him requesting.

she pressed her lips together, trying to gather her thoughts for an attempt to say something, yet there were just nothing, and making it even more impossible for her when he cleared his throat.

"what did I just spew out?", he uttered, and due to how perplexed her mind was, she wasn't exactly sure if his question was for her or was only just for him. .

and hence, she replied with an awkward questioning hum.

he held his gaze onto her, his eyes doing the confused blinking.

their conversation literally made a bewildering turn, she was confused about what he confessed, he was also confused about what he said so himself, and now, she was even more confused that he became confused.

joshua in some way, somehow managed to sort his thoughts out in a matter of time, whilst her, she was still like how she used to from about a minute ago after his confession, yet who could she blame, he was the one who started all that, he could at least try to crystallize it first.

"there's this feeling that in a way just grew inside somewhere where it's beating. . and I couldn't find any better way to express it than saying like with you in it."

she felt her heart halting from beating in the middle of him talking, yet as soon as he had concluded it, it pounded a thousand times more.

if it wasn't for the butterflies, his words could almost completely comfort her. it felt new but great for her to know that she made someone feel something for her and like her even if he saw her at her worst.

if she could just shout a big yes, she would, or anything to agree to his confession, because hell, she likes him too, and it took her him to tell her that he likes her for her to realize she feels the exact same way.

"if by any chance, at some point in our time together here would you find yourself feeling the same way towards me, just. . tell me.", a small yet unfeigned smile plastered on his lips. "even if it's in an unideal time, I would listen."

a giggle came out from her, then her lips curved into a smile and it reached all the way up to her eyes. "will now be a good time?"

his eyebrows hitched by her question and by how sooner it came.

"I don't feel the need to prolong the time of when I get to tell you how much your confession means to me. you're my favorite person tonight, and I do like you."

when all her life, all she knew was to tell people lies to make it seem like she fits in, she never really knew how easy it was to tell what she actually felt like, to say what is truly inside her mind.

joshua didn't fight off the urge to reach for her cheeks even at the second when it came, he just did it as if he was already used to it. "only tonight?", he gave her a smile, one oozing with expectance.

the corners of her lips lifted as she slowly shook her head, bringing her hand up to grasp joshua's wrist, the one that was holding her cheeks.

that gesture of her's told a lot of things, and one of it he was certain was her being alright about the way he was holding her cheeks, and any moment now, when he leans in for a kiss.

his eyes fixated at her own, they could feel themselves drowning, yet it was the warm type of way, and then gradually, his eyes fell down to her lips.

second thoughts were non-existent to him when it came to the thought of wanting to press his lips on hers, therefore he did. in the most flawless time and way that she could ever think of.