The Eleventh Ward

Chapter 18

We spent the night celebrating my victory. Calum had gone off to his room because he was mad he lost, and as the night went on the others started to disperse as well, leaving just me and Luke sitting on the window sill. "Why didn't you tell us about Lea?" he asked. I sighed and looked over the cars rushing around beneath us.

"Ever since it happened, I've always been 'that girl who killed her best friend and says she can't remember'. But when I came here and found out nobody knew, I wanted it to stay like that. I didn't want you guys to see me as a murderer like everyone else does."

"You can't remember what happened, and if nobody else knows about it then you can pretend it really didn't" He was staring at me, the moon light seeping through the windows made his skin glow in the darkness. His ocean blue eyes had become darker as the sun disappeared and the ring through his lip shone as the light from a car's headlights hit it. "Yeah" I whispered.

"I could never see you as a murderer"

"What do you see me as?" He slid off the window sill and started moving towards me.

"I see you as this incredibly strong, beautiful girl that just doesn't know how beautiful she really is. I see you as someone with a really fucking great music taste, as someone who's a bit confused right now but its fine because we all get confused sometimes. I see you as someone who can make me feel better just by being in the room, as someone who can make me laugh and smile and want to stay up until midnight sitting on a window sill just so I can talk to them. But more than anything, I see you as someone I want to be with, to hold and kiss and love through everything. I see you as the girl I've fallen in love with" I sat staring at him. His lips were just a few inches away from me. I slowly lifted my hand up to rest against his jawline and stroked my thumb down his cheek. "I love you too". I leaned forward and kissed him, our lips slowly moving in time together, moulding against each other as if they had been made for each other. I don't know how long we were there, kissing in the moonlight, but eventually we had to say goodnight and go back to our own rooms. I don't know about Luke, but I could barely sleep that night I was so happy. I may have only had one thing on my list, but I did it pretty damn well.