"Isn't it weird that... electric eels can generate shocks up to 600 volts? I mean... they don't get shocked themselves during the process right? Since they're in water all the time."
I looked up, to see her face had become a quizzical look. One of her eyebrows were arched, lips pursed and that little nose of my sweetheart crinkled up that formed creases around the nasal area. She was curious, dumbfounded by her query.
" You know, I never actually thought of that. I know that they use shocks to communicate with other electric eels. Possibly to attract a mate as well."
" Imagine if humans did that. Instead of flirting we would shock them instead. I know I wouldn't like that at all." She giggled and put some of her hair behind her ear as she looked up at me. I smiled back, admiring my doll.
So childish. That's why I love her.
We sat facing each other, actually, we were sat like this for a couple of hours now. It wasn't awkward, not at all. To be honest, it made me feel... safe. Just looking in to his eyes made me feel I was secure from any danger. I was vulnerable to any type of danger before I met him. It being psychical or mental danger, he was there to protect me, it was like he grabbed my hands and lifted me up from a pit of disgust and distaste of everything that had hurt me. A scream can be as just as silent. His chestnut hair had covered his forehead and sleek eyes that refused to turn it's piercing gaze away from mine. I think, ever day we had spent with each other, I had loved him a little bit more each day, each hour, each minute and each second, there was only one boy in the whole entire universe that made my feelings turn from one to a thousand, and that, was him. To others, they only existed when they were needed, but I existed to him. It's weird pleasure actually, to be in center of attention, but I know I'm his and he is mine.
She wasn't just my shining star, she was the whole dark sky that I had become juxtaposed in, so I could shine with her.
"Do you remember that time in the coffee shop, where I had met you?"
" Yeah I do!"
" You were sat by yourself at the table in the corner, outside all of the noise in the center of the shop. I remember I asked to sit with you, and we sat in silence for two hours until one of us finally something."
" Hmm, do you want another coffee?"
" Yeah, that was it. Then a couple of days later we fell in love."
She smiled warmly which made me all tingly inside. She gave me butterflies, actually, no, I feel like an entire zoo had been set free in my stomach when I first met her. It was strange really, after 120 hours, 7200 minutes and 432000 seconds, we had already fell for each other. We had already moved in with each other when my parents died, we taking over the house afterwards. Depressing, but we were together. Her leg had crossed over her other one, disturbing the water as it was still for the past couple of hours. After that, we were silent again, left only with each other and our thoughts. I could sit here forever with her.
I feel like Narcissus, when he fell in love with his own reflection. I can see myself when I look at him. We were so similar. Every sixty seconds I spent in happiness just adds on to all the time I have in the world for him. We even shared our sadness, anything that ever bothered me was eating away inside of him. Sometimes I feel like shit when I'm upset, but all I can do... feel it. My sadness, in such a short amount of time, was always replaced with something beautiful. Him. Thinking back at the time we had moved in, we had decorated the walls seven and a half times. That half being only half of the house, then deciding we didn't like it. I still hate the color of our walls. It's okay though, nothing wrong with a bit of pretending. Unless it eats away at you, then you know when to stop.
" Tell me that story."
" What story?"
" You know, the one where the moon dies every night to let her breathe. That one, or the one where life sends death gifts everyday and he keeps them forever."
" You basically just told it, but whatever. Yeah, it was one that my dad told me before he and my mum had crashed in to a lamppost. Breaking six bones in her neck and fracturing her ribs. My dad, however, died of a brain hemorrhage during the crash."
" Spare me the details. How do you remember all of that?"
" I remember everything."
" You couldn't remember the story I wanted you to tell me about."
" I was too captivated in your gaze. You get under my skin whenever you're around me."
" Likewise. You hypnotize me."
" You left me spellbound to you."
" I love you."
" I love you too."
" I'm still thinking about electric eels."
" For god sake."
We both laughed for the last time, then, our gaze still intact, we knew it was the time.
" Shall we do it now?"
" Yeah."We both smiled at each other, knowing we will go together, knowing we would never be apart. Ever.
And just like that, the toaster was dropped and left to drown between us.
