BELIEVE {BxB}

TWENTY TWO

Angel

One thing that I can say that I learned from all this is that I was missin' out on sumn' that was right in front of my face my whole life.

Angel being somebody that I strongly love with all my heart.

We're close to our destination and still have some time to shake off. Maurice sat in the passenger seat, quiet.

When we drove to the open runway that was in nun' but surrounded fields, I couldn't help but to get nervous.

Thea' was still no sign of a plane.

I shut the car off and turned to face him, pushing my seat back to give him some room. "Come hea'."

Maurice has a look of sadness as he then climbs into my lap. "Whateva' happens, just know that I'm with you every step of the way. I wasn't bullshitting when I said that we are going to make it out togetha'. You hear me on that?"

Maurice nods his head.

I leaned forward to capture his lips with mine. Man, I wish I could just hold him this whole time and keep him protected from all this.

"Fuck, I'm so scared, Angel," he muttered against my lips.

"I kno' and I am too, but we doin' this shit togetha', right?"

He rests his head on my right shoulder. "Yeah," he muttered, agreeing. "We are."

My nerves is jumping through the roof right na'.

"I had this crazy ass dream when I was knocked out. We were both at peace at our new home, and you gave me this gift that you made to celebrate our anniversary we had. On the pendant, it was an old picture that we took togetha' as kids."

Maurice smiled from what I just told him. "That's cute. How did the dream end? Did we get married?"

I nervously laughed. That is the part that I don't wanna tell him. "Well, we had this dinner on the bench until you said that you wanna walk on the beach."

Damn, I should've neva' brought this up.

"Suddenly, a SWAT Team came outta nowhere and t-they shot you."

It's like Maurice's whole face fell afta' hearing that.

"But it was only just a nightmare. Nun' of that was real, Maurice."

"That's really scary to think about. I'm the one who got shot?"

Na' I got him really worried. I wasted no time hugging him and kissing all over his face to calm him down. "It was only just a bad dream. See, we're here togetha' afta' all this time."

Maurice still had doubt in his eyes. "That's one of my worst fears is that we would lose each otha'. You always been with me, Angel."

"We're not gonna eva' lose each otha', and I can make that promise to you. Na' quit lookin' all scared and shit and put up a smile. I love seeing your smile, baby."

I get to poking his cheek just so I could see that small dimple he had. It didn't take much until he begins to smile wide.

"Cute ass smile," I chuckled.

Our lips hungrily joined fa' anotha' kiss. This time, this kiss really means sumn'.

Hope we make it outta this safely because I would lose my mind if anything goes wrong.