the light in his dark

Part 23

I slowly open my eyes just to see me snuggling against James neck. I still have my necklace in my hand

I look up and see James looking down at me with nothing but love in his eyes. I can hardly see him because now it's fully dark outside

We are still in the sand and The night is beautiful. We stay laying like that for again a good 30 minutes at just admiring each other or looking at the sky

There isn't any clouds. It's just the dark sky and the stars that light him

After that James stand up and grabs my hand. He cleans my body removing the sand and I do the same.

I remove my shoes because I have too much sand in it and I don't like it. I walk barefoot in the warm sand with James by my side

When we reach the cars James open my door side and I smile at him. He bends to give me a kiss on my lips and then on my jaw

"Thank you for tonight" I say looking at him. It was really perfect. Being here with him. I feel like him and my mother met

I know it's weird to say that but I feel her here because it was our spot and bringing James here was like presenting him to her

I wish they could met. My mother would have loved him. He is everything she looked for in a man for me

"Anything for you" he winks and walks to his side. I start to enter the car looking one last time at the sea and I see a shadow at the distance

She was standing where James and I were laying 2 minutes ago. Was she looking at us the whole time ? No it would be weird

Who stare at people like that ?

She doesn't move. I feel like she kinda seems like the shadow in James's house but it's not possible right ?

She wouldn't come back after what happen. It would be too stupid knowing how James will react right ?

Right ?

I shake my head and close my eyes. I look down at James and see him texting someone on his phone. I guess he waits for me to finish looking one last time at the sea

When I look back up I see nothing. This shadow wasn't there anymore

See I knew i was going crazy. It's all in my mind and I have to cool down. Nothing is going to happen. James is fine and I'm fine too

Everything is fine

I enter in the car and James starts to drive. It's past midnight so I decide to take a little nap in the car. I feel James eyes going on me at some moment and I feel him stroking my thigh

He lower down the radio and I drift off to sleep.

I'm waking up by James's hand on my cheek. I look around and I see that we are in his driveway. I look at him and I smile while yawning

"How long have we been here ?" I ask while stretching my arms

"since 20 minutes I think" he says looking into my eyes.

I lower my arms and look at him with wide eyes "what ? Why didn't you woke me up earlier ?"

He tilts his head "because you had a very sleepy face and I want you to rest"

"Yeah but what if you were tired too ?" I ask looking at my hands. I feel bad now because I fall asleep really easily so even if he wakes me up I'll fall asleep right after laying in bed

"Wendy I'm not, okay so don't worry about me" he says looking right into my eyes. I feel like he tries to read my soul and it's scary but also very impressive