Ten Ways To Say I Love You

50 Words: 50 Sentences

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.~ Rudyard Kipling

A/N: I hope you guys like this one!

1. Smile: To him, it's like the sun rising, an ethereal glow that just makes everything about her better, more beautiful, more her.

2. Promise: For her, it's not something she takes lightly, the way they live. Which is why when she makes one to him, he knows she means it, with all of her heart. She's already gifted it to him anyways.

3. Kiss: It's what he drops on his sleeping wife's forehead, before climbing down the stairs to drive his children to school, letting her sleep for once.

4. Flowers: She's crying as the little boy apologizes, then sweeps a crushed looking bouquet of wildflowers from behind her back in an attempt to get her to calm down. The effect is instantaneous, and soon, she's looking down at a fancier one as she walks toward him, in her white dress.

5. Picnic: They lay together under a canopy of green, losing themselves in the sounds that aren't there for a change, instead of the nightmares that plague them every time they close their eyes.

6. Sick: To her, it's when he's at his weakest, even as he wraps his arms around her and kisses her all over her face, trying to get her sick too.

7. Necklace: It's not a fancy one, or a remotely expensive one. But it's value is so much more than words can begin to describe. It's her, with him.

8. Hair: She touches it gently, the lightest caress sending off a zillion animals in his stomach, and that's the moment that he realizes he's in love with her, and he would break the rules all over again do go and save her.

9. Feathers: Light, they dance upon the wind and flit through the park, as they fight off the monsters that are creeping up on them.

10. Hands: It's how she lets him know she's there, even in the darkest places that they have ventured through. She pretend it's to give herself strength, but really, it's so that they can share it together.

11. Loss: He sees them, watching their laughter as they shove each other playfully and their fleeting touches, and his heart aches for the girl with the honey hair and the beautiful eyes, the one he was forced to leave behind.

12. Sunsets: Something she always loved, but the joy of the night is shocked out of her when he bursts out of the lake, dripping wet, and soaks her from head to toe. This results in a nearly two hour session of her chasing him around the camp and him screaming for help from laughing campers.

13. Glass: Her heart shatters like this when she faces the boy who had promised so much to her, but is instantly mended when the boy with the green eyes places a hand on her shoulder, letting her know he's there.

14. Danger: It being a practically everyday occurrence for them doesn't make his heart beat any less faster when she sets off by herself, and it only slows down when she's back in his embrace.

15. Touch: Cursed, she jerks her hands away from him, fearful about what could happen. She remembers the myth of Midas, and runs away, her gown causing her to stumble over her feet, away from the stable boy with the eyes like the sea.

16. Lines: When he was younger, it seemed so clear, the word, but as he grows older, he sees that not everyone fits into boxes, especially not the girl with the gray eyes and blonde hair.

17. Butterflies: She stumbles upon a grove of them, their iridescent waves fluttering around, one deciding to land in her hair and pay her a little visit. However, they then vanish into a sky the color of their wings, melting into the background until they are all but gone.