The song ended but Tom and I remained standing there on the dance floor. "This moment feels unreal it's so perfect and your so beautiful..." He trailed off. I kissed him. "Stop being so cute!" I said smiling at him We kept on staring into each others eyes. We weren't even speaking but we were having a conversation. Funny how that works. I know, it doesn't make sense. "Come on let's get out of here" he said pulling me away from the dance floor. We ran to the nearest exit. "I'm not entirely sure where we're going but I do know we are lost" he said turning to me. I laughed. "That's okay" I placed my hands on his face and kissed him. "Come on" I pulled him to the nearest door. "It looks like some kind of garden or something" I said looking around. Tall hedges surrounded us and roses were everywhere. "It is pretty though" I said admiring it all. We walked through what we decided was a garden until we found two swings. I sat down in one and he in the other. I kicked my feet slowly. The small creak from the swing set was somewhat eery. "This is cool" he said looking around. I held out my hand and he gladly took it as we swung back and forth . "Come on let's look around" I said getting off the swing. I took my heels off and held them in my hand as we walked slowly. I looked up at him. He was smiling and looking up at the moon. "One day I'm gonna go up there" he said. "To the moon?" I asked. He nodded. "Yup" I said. "I used to want to be an astronaut so I could go to space and see aliens and look at the stars and galaxies" he said. "I don't know theres something about space that's so appealing and beautiful it's weird" he said. "I think if blink doesn't work out for me I'll go to space" he said still staring at the moon. "My little alien" I said kissing his hand. He laughed. "Isn't space so exciting- I mean it's so big out there and it's really hard to believe that it's only us you know, there has got to be another species of something out there, there is no way we're the only ones" he said. They way his eyes lit up when he talked about space and his hand gestures, showed he truly cared about that stuff. This wasn't the first time I listened to him talk about space and aliens, it was so cute to see how much it interested him.
"So like, what got you into all this space stuff?" I asked as we kept walking. "Well when I was younger I originally wanted to be a firefighter but when I was 10 I looked through a telescope for the first time and so taken back by how many stars and things I could see that I just developed a passion for it" he said. "Well I hope you get to space" I wished as we stopped at a small stone bench. We sat down. His arm was around me holding me tightly. Our fingers intertwined together. My head resting on his shoulder. "I love you Thomas Matthew DeLonge" I whispered my eyes closed. He kissed my forehead. "And I love you Lea Christine Johnson" he replied. I looked up at the stars to see a shooting star fly across the dark sky. I made a wish. I wished that Tom and I would be together forever.
"Did you see that?" Tom asked excited. "Yea I did" I replied. "Did you make a wish?" He asked. "Yes" I replied. "What did you wish?" He asked. "I can't tell you or it won't come true" I said. "Oh yea I forgot about that laws of Wishes" he said. This felt like a romantic comedy movie. All of it was one giant cliche after another. But I couldn't help how amazing the night turned out.
No matter how cliche it was. Now that I think about it our love really was like one beautiful, giant Cliche.
There is something about young, teenage love that's is so thrilling. We're at the age when nothing matters to us rules are nothing but words and consequences are nothing but small threats. Nothing applies to us because we feel that we know everything and everybody else is just trying to tie us down. So through out school, and parents and new responsibilities that we are given day by day we find an escape through love , and we want- no better yet crave someone to share our dreams and hopes for the future with we want somebody to get lost with. Someone to have late night conversations until 3 in the morning, somebody who will show us the world from a more happier and freer perspective. Somebody to show us that for those few rebellious filled years , the world doesn't suck as much as it does because we have that one special person to share it with. To make lasting memories with, memories that when 20 years from now we can look back on with happiness and not be sad or regret anything we ever did, and It makes me so happy and so thankful to say that Tom was my somebody...
