Excerpt from a book I'll never write

6:26am (edited)

' "I'm afraid," She whispered into his chest as she laid on his warm torso, listening to every heart beat as if it was the beat to her favorite song.

"No you don't have to be," he whispered in her ear as he kissed her forehead ever so gently. "You are perfect just the way you are."

She smiled, "you don't get it I'm not perfect. I'm a mess. I screw things up, and I don't do it intentionally. I say thing that are stupid and I don't want to lose you over that. Hell, I don't want to lose you at all."

He lifted her off his chest and looked at her in the eyes. "I think you are perfect. Every misplaced hair and flaw. Everything you hate about yourself. I love twenty times more than my favorite parts of you." He waited a minute before he said his final fifteen words. "You're not going to lose me. I love you too much to let you go."

~excerpt from a book I'll never write∞