Overlap

Chapter 67: When I'm With You

<10/27/2011 - 22:11 | Link Street, Marietta, GA, USA>

"So with all of these extra little events, there will still be plenty to learn about. I'm told it's mostly stuff about nature. Plus, the weather reports are showing some promising cold days for it." I could barely contain my excitement by now, as I spoke to Lumina while walking down the streets at night with music playing softly in my ears. The song "With You" by Claire Willis set a perfect tone and atmosphere for how romantic my life felt by now.

"It doesn't take a genius to tell how excited you are about this." Lumina accompanied my conversation, as we both spoke by mouth through my music, still using the telepathy as usual to hang out. "But I'm not able to tell which aspect is making you so excited. Is it everything else? Or do you really want to dress up as a girl that badly?"

After having that text the other day about Zero's green light to find me a dress, I knew there was no backing out of it. So, I told Lumina today about the whole costume thing. She laughed for some time, but thought it was a joke at first. "Come on Lumina. You should know by now that it's both things at the same time. I'm more than excited though. I feel so wired, I could explode!"

"..."

"But... Maybe that's not the only thing I've been thinking about lately." I shifted back to my telepathic voice, only to ensure I didn't stutter trying to convey myself after returning to a secret topic I've kept to myself all day. Actually, I've been holding this in thought for more than a week.

"It's not?"

"Yeah..." It's been gradually getting colder again, shifting away from the traumatizing summer I wanted to forget. I've been hanging out with Lumina more often, so naturally, she's been on my mind five times as often since. I really can't ever stop thinking about her. She's my entire life now. She's my every breath, my guiding star, my entire future. "We've been going out for how long now? It's pretty much November, but I started loving you a bit before the summer. So it's what, five, six months now?"

"Must you even keep track?"

"I will keep track. Every little detail matters to me now. Still, the amount of time we've spent together doesn't matter as much as what we both have been through, and more importantly, what we are going to keep going through."

"Don't even remind me," she warned. "I want to keep next summer as far from my thoughts as possible."

"I know. I just, I really have no regrets about the choice I made, the choice to stick with you forever. I've never been more sure of anything else now Lumina. You and I are both true soul mates to each other."

"I'm so glad you feel that way!" Lumina's echoing voice became so up-pitched and happy, flattered to hear me say such meaningful words.

"So it got me thinking..." I continued pressing forward, even though it sounded like I couldn't possibly have said anything better. "I can't ever imagine a time from now where something goes wrong with us, or when things somehow don't work out. There's nothing that can turn me from you Lumina, not even hell or God himself. I could never end up with somebody else. I could never be happy with anybody else. And I know that you understand me deep down."

"Right... But I feel like you have a point to make?"

Lumina! She's always so intelligent, like she can read my mind without reading my mind. I'm still so nervous about this, surely my face is blushing in the night, but I have nothing left to lose. I'm so happy now, that she'll have no proper sense what I feel unless I come out and say it. "I... I know this isn't exactly grand or typical for most people. You and I have such a unique situation. It makes some things complicated, and for that, I'm sorry. But no matter what happens, I'll never stop loving you! We'll be together through the end of time Lumina, no matter what... So that's why, I feel confident enough now to ask this of you."