🫧Walty🫧

Chapter 8

Walters pov

He looks so pretty.
He's sitting in between my legs wearing the flower crown I made for him and I'm wearing the one he made for me.

"I love daisies" he says, picking at one he's holding in his hand. Pulling the little petals all off and keeping them all in his hand. "I know you do,you tell me every time we see them" I say thinking back to all the times we would sit outside in the grass when the weather got nice. Every time he'd tell me he loved them and the way they look so nice in along with the green of the grass.

I also liked daisies, they were always in my garden and I loved picking the best ones to make flower crowns. But I think the fact that Henry likes them has made me like them even more.

Every time I see them they remind me of him and how happy and excited he was when we went outside to the grass one day last semester to find that they had finally sputtered back up. We sat there for hours talking and he spent the whole time picking at the daisies. Picking the petals off one by one.

"Not everytime we see them" he says as if I'm over exaggerating, and maybe I am a tiny bit.

"Most of the time" I say settling on a middle point.

He's now done pulling all the petals of the daisy he's holding and instead of dropping the petals back down on the grass like he's been doing for the last five minutes, he throws all the little petals at me, laughing as most of them land in my hair before I can move out of the way.

He's still laughing as I try to shake them off my head without making the flower crown I'm still wearing fall off. It's not really working though so now it's my time to get him back.

I grab a handful of the grass from beside me before throwing it at him. I laugh and he laughs too. But without even trying to get rid of the grass I threw at him he's already got a chunk of grass in his hand about to throw it back at me.

I get up as he throws it. It all falls down beside me and before it can all even fall to the floor he's got more in his hand ready to go. I run away back towards the trees and I can hear him getting up from the blanket to follow me.

I don't get very far since I have no shoes on, and the forest Floor isn't as soft as the grass beside the lake was. He reaches me and throws it directly in my face." truce?" He asks knowing he's won anyway. "Truce" I reply walking back toward the grass before some twig ends up in my foot.

We got back to the blanket and the suns now moved behind a cloud making the part of grass our blankets on all shaded over and dark.

It's not that big of a deal though because there's still sunny patches of grass all around, so we just move our blanket over to one of them.

I picked up the blanket with one hand carrying the bag we brought it in and my shoes in the other.Henry's carrying his shoes and both of our T-shirts.

I walk over towards a tree that's in the sun and lay our blanket back down on the floor. I put the bag and my shoes down beside me and Henry puts his shoes and our t-shirts down beside them.

I sit down laying my back up against the tree, and instead of Henry sitting down beside me he sits back in between my legs like how he was earlier. I mean I'm not gonna complain.

He slowly lays himself back resting his head on my chest. I wrap my arms around him looking out at the lake in front of us.

Today has been so nice and this has definitely got to be one of my favourite parts. It's so comforting sitting with Henry.

I can see his head lifting and falling slightly with every breath I take and I can feel his damp hair up against me. I really want to run my hands through it. I really want to just sit here with him in the sun laying like this for as long as we can.

I can feel my eyes start to close and I'm so comfortable I'm not even gonna fight it.

.....

I wake up to Henry still lying on me and even though I can feel his body heat up against me I'm still a bit cold, and the sun that was high in the sky when I fell asleep is now slowly falling down behind the trees.

"Sorry I didn't realise I had Been asleep this long" I say to him gesturing to the sky that's all pink with barely any light left in it. " it's ok I didn't mind" he says sitting up off my chest and turning around to me.

But he didn't look like it was ok. He looked almost worried and caught up in his thoughts. "Are you ok?" I ask because I'm kinda getting worried. " yea...... not really I think there's something I want to tell you" he says slowly, almost stuttering on some of his words. "Ye okay, what is it you want to say" I ask sincerely wanting to know what it is but not wanting to push him since he already looks sacred.

"Amm.. before I say it though can you please promise me that if it's something you don't want to hear can we please just forget I even said it, because I don't know if it's something you will want to hear but I can't keep it to myself for any longer" he says, now looking a bit more confident in what he's going to tell me.

"I promise," I say trying to think of what he's talking about but I'm still quite tired and before I can think about it anymore he says it."I like you."

I can't tell if I'm dreaming or losing it but I don't even know what to do with myself.

"Like I really like you Walter" he says again and this time it sounds real, it still takes me a minute to click what actually just happened but before I can even think about it I blurt out "I like you too Henry."

He turns around now looking me in the eyes and that's all I need to hear. Before I know it I'm leaning down and kissing him.

I'm kissing Henry and he's kissing me back.

I have dreamt about this moment so many times but it has never been this perfect.

Us kissing in the forest, he likes me, the great day we had, the setting sun, the flower crowns, him, me.

It's all so perfect.
Everything is perfect.