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I L L U S O R Y : 18

A warmth that I can't describe sparks throughout my entire being as I feel his lips press against mine. I can't help but respond with my own and taste the texture of our lips finally being united. My fingers reach up and run themselves throughout the layers of his wet hair, while his hands keep themselves cupping the sides of my face, as though I'm merely an illusion in front of him. Our breaths are hot and fan against each other's cool faces, and for a moment everything around us disappears, but then reality crashes upon us once more.

Pulling away from each other, I stare wide eyed up at Bridger with fear that I had imagined what had just happened. The panting between each of us, the flustered faces, and the wide eyes that are peering at each other's soul is enough for me to know that this is real. It's not just another dream I've had throughout the months I have been in his friendship, he's here in with his half lidded eyes that I adore.

"I love you too, Jane," Bridger confesses as blushes scatter themselves across my features, and my heart thunders in my chest at hearing him tell me that he loves me.

"What does this leave us?" I can't help but ask, fear still coated in the back of my voice. Stupid, since we just kissed each other like we were about to die and be without each other but still.

Bridger smiles softly at me as he runs his fingers against the side of my face, his smile pure and genuine as I gaze up at him, waiting for his verdict. "Maybe...possibly, you becoming my girlfriend...if you want?"

I can't help but look at him with hope, with the thought of him actually wanting to be in a relationship with me. "I don't know..." I start as I shrug my shoulders, earning a raised eyebrow from him. I roll my eyes and lung forward to wrap their arms around him. "Yes, I'll be your girlfriend."

I feel his arms wrap themselves around me and I can't help but know that I'm finally being loved by someone as unconditionally as I love them.

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Bridger and I look horrible as we make our way through the last of the trees and into my backyard. With branches intertwined in our hair, mud from being wet in the lake and feet coated with both mud and dry grass we almost look as though we had gone missing and were stranded in the trees behind my house. Yet our hands are wrapped together, our fingers touching each other's, as we send each other warm smiles as we reach my back door.

"I...I guess that we should probably go our separate ways...you know...for tonight. So that we can get some sleep and wake up not cranky in the morning," I start rambling as I look down at the grass with my hair falling in front of my eyes again, a piece branch twisted within my mass of lioness hair.

My breathing leaves me once more when I feel Bridger come closer to me and wrap his arms around me, the both of us shivering from the cold winter wind wrapping themselves between us. I know that I'm going to get sick from being wet, especially Bridger. He'll probably get really sick and be out of school for a week but at the moment I would risk getting sick just to feel his wet arms around mine in this cold air.

"Thank you for saving me, Jane," Bridger whispers in my ear, his hot breath fanning against my features as I blush once more. I know though that he doesn't just mean me saving him from a demon, that he also means being there and comforting him since Patty passed away.

"Back at ya," I respond back, feeling my face heat up once more at the non romantic comment I've sent him. It's not my fault that he's stolen the best line, but none the less he knows what I meant and the chuckle from him reassures me that he doesn't think I've completely lost it.