The Key Lies Between Both Worlds

Chapter 32

Amy

   Jack followed right behind me as I walked randomly into the forest, not knowing where I was going. I kept on walking until I came to a stop because a tree had fallen in the middle of the forest.

Jack's brittle but soft voice filled the air as he said softly to me. "Can I tell you something?"

I turned on the balls of my heels, towards Jack as I seen he had almost a pained expression on.

I asked whole heartily. "What is it?"

Jack looks up at the sky as he explains. "That mark on your neck is still there, you know."

I don't look to surprise as I admitted. "Well yeah, hickeys don't usually disappear until a couple of days or maybe even a week at most. Depending on the size of it."

  Jack shook his head as he rubbed the bridge of his nose. "Please, just sit down and let me explain everything about that mark."

   I took a seat on the big tree that had fallen as I wait for him to explain this big thing about a simple hickey given by a boy that I don't even barley know. But then Jack stood in front of me and explained this whole chaos about the mark on my neck and how he needed to overlap it for it to go away.

   I might sound insane; I might sound like some crazy high schooler girl that didn't know any better. But I actually believed his sorry ass. I believe every single damn word that came out of his mouth, no matter how insane it sounded. I believed it all because of this stupid feeling I felt in my gut, in my heart, in my bones, and through my veins, it felt like it coursing through my veins as we spoke.

   Something is drawing me to him and I don't understand what or how. I have seen and met multiple guys, and I have never felt anything like I have if I'm around him. I have heard how high school girl's crushes drives the girl to do unspeakable things or how their brain plays a trick on them to make them think they are in love every single time.

   I wasn't going to be a fool to love, no matter how I felt in the moment. But it hit home when I started to remember all the fairy tale books, I have read about true love at first sight, and what love makes you do. How love makes you do the craziest of things somehow. I always thought it was a bunch of bull shit sometimes because I never even had a crush, and thought it was just a story like everything else seemed like.

Until I took Jack's hand that day and everything changed.

The way the fairy tale stories described how love felt was exactly how I was starting to feel.

The way his smile melted my heart.

The way I felt when I was around him.

The way I noticed every single detail about him when I didn't even mean to.

The way I couldn't stop staring at him.

The way I felt comfortable with him even when I barely knew him.

The way I felt as if I knew him already from the very first moment, we met in the lunch room.

The way everything, I see or do now reminds me of him or I think of him.

The way I felt like I was on top of the world when I was around him.

The way I wanted him to hold me in his arms and just kiss me, that desire right there was starting to be unbearable right now.

The list could go on and on for miles on end, but every single word on that list would be true.

   But the oddest feeling I have never felt before, but I felt with him was, the feelings of being safe. I felt absolutely safe when I was around him, like nothing or no one could ever touch me or harm me ever again. I have never felt safe with no one before, but when I was with him, it felt so different. But honestly the feeling was weird because I have never felt it before.