fall in love at a glance

Chapter 13: Mei

-More than ready! I'm going to go make some popcorn again. If anyone wants to come with me.

-I would like to accompany you.

I exclaim. Valentin smiles at me and turns to Kiara:

-We'll come back in ten minutes, try not to do anything stupid during that time

Kiara gives him a more beautiful smile and replies:

-Do not worry about me. Go make some popcorn, guys, I'm going to get the movie.

I see Valentin roll his eyes and then take my hand. Contact invades me throughout my body. I feel butterflies in my stomach. I squeeze Valentin's hand a little more and follow him.

Arriving in front of the kitchen, he finally lets go of my hand and opens a cupboard to get some corn to pop to make popcorn, then he turns to me and asks:

-Can you take a saucepan with a lid please

I take out what I asked for and put the stove on gas. He puts the corn in, puts the lid on it and turns on the gas. He goes to the other end of the kitchen to get some liquid chocolate, some forks and several bowls. I always look at him when he leans his back on the work surface and looks at me. His eyes look into mine. After a few minutes he smiled I couldn't resist his smile and smiled back with all my teeth. My eyes moved to his lips and he did the same. The timer that Valentin had set takes us out of our bubble. I see Valentin sighs and reaches for the timer to go see the popcorn. He divides the popcorn equally between the two bowls and adds liquid chocolate on top of the popcorn. He hands me a bowl and we go upstairs.

Entering the room we already see Kiara comfortably seated in her bed cross-legged watching TV where the film "The Ouija" is paused.

Kiara turned to us and licked her lips when she saw the bowls. Valentin is the first to sit on the bed next to Kiara and hands her a bowl and a fork. Valentin turns to me and points to the place next to him. I feel the butterflies in my stomach returning. I approach the bed and sit next to him. Once we are all comfortably seated, Kiara starts the film. Valentin and I share the same bowl of popcorn. Its seems so romantic. Sometimes our hands brush against each other which causes less feeling. After less than thirty minutes I'm already starting to get really scared.

Without realizing it, I grab Valentin's arm and squeeze it with all my strength, hiding my face with his arm. Valentin turns his head towards me, looks at me decently, his eyes level with his arm. He gently removes my hand from his arm and intertwines my fingers with his. At that moment my heart exploded in my chest. I squeeze his fingers even tighter and he looks up from our fingers to look into my eyes and smiles. I put my head on his shoulder and we watch the end of the film. At the end of the film I am still against Valentin who caresses my hand. They were the TV and turn to Kiara who is sleeping peacefully then turn to me:

-I was just wondering why we couldn't hear Kiara, now I have my answer.

I burst out laughing:

-Yes

-I think it's better to go to bed.