KISS NOTE

Chapter 10~ELIAS' POV~ A warm Thursday afternoon of February.

I have never seen such a beautiful sight like this. I just recorded the kiss scene of Chase and Kate. It reminds me of one of my favorite movies, "The Notebook" of that rain-kissing scene. I love that movie so much, although I cried at the end. I stopped recording it from my smartphone, but suddenly I saw a profile picture of me kissing Aurora's cheek. I think that's Aurora calling me. I picked and held the pink notebook in my hands; I put the pink pen and the scarlet lip balm in my pocket. I answered her call and put it on my ear.

"Hello?" I spoke.

"Hey, Elias." She spoke.

"Hey. Where are you?" I asked her.

"I just went out from school though. I helped Mrs. Nuñez to prepare the heart-shaped cake for the dance night." She spoke.

"Oh, that's nice. Hey, would you mind coming to the Botanical Gardens later?"

"What for?" She asked.

"I need to tell you something." I spoke.

"Sure! What time?" She spoke.

I hoped that it won't take long to get there.

"In...an hour or so?" I asked.

"Okay. I'll see you later then!" She spoke.

"Okay. Bye." I smiled.

"Bye." She spoke and I hung up.

I sighed deeply to calm down my shakiness. I looked at the pink notebook (Kiss Note) with hope. This was it. It was my chance to tell her and I cannot lose it. However, my hands are shaking nervously and my heartbeat was quickening. Suddenly, the rain stopped; Chase and Kate are gone. But I guess that they went home. I walked out from the bus stop through the sidewalk. I know where the Botanical Gardens are. However, it's bit a far away from the bus stop. I walked to the right and then to left. The rest of the time was straight ahead to the Botanical Gardens.

I went into the Golden Gate Park and went in the Botanical Gardens. I walked to Redwood Trail and saw a bench.* Gosh, my feet felt so sore after an hour of running and walking at the same time. I sat on the bench, letting myself to rest a while. Dark, greenish trees surrounded me; the dim light of the clouds shone on me. I opened the pink notebook to find a blank page. But first of all, I saw previous love notes my friends wrote to their girls. I was surprised then chuckled while reading it because it's sweet and romantic at the same time. I felt ready to take my turn to Kiss Note. I took the lip balm out and removed the lid from it. The color of the lip balm turned from scarlet to hot pink. Aurora loves the color hot pink.

I wear the lip balm on my lips, it felt smooth and soft. I took the pink pen out and wrote: "Aurora, you're more than my crush; my girl, my flaming desire, my dream girl, the beautiful you, my love, my everything. –Elias."

I sighed deeply, waiting for the love of my life to come here. I stood up from the bench, walked towards the McBean Wildfowl Pond.** I stood front of the pond. It was misty, no ducks were swimming there and the boulders half-submerged. I took off my thin, white jacket; left my white tank top on. I wrapped my jacket around the waistline of my blue denim jeans. I slowly through the pond, submerging from my ankles to my knees. I stopped there and the wind began howl quietly. I closed my eyes that I could hear the beautiful howls from the wind. Those howls gave me goosebumps but it felt relaxing. I felt the soft breeze cooling my body, tousling my soft, dark brown hair.

Suddenly, I felt soft fingers caressing gently on the curve of my jawline. I shivered in sensual pleasure. Its fingers kept stroking up and down, from my jawline to my neck. Those caresses made me turned on. I felt the hand massaging my shoulder, like I wanted to hold it. I held its held, opened my eyes and behind me, it was Aurora. She was wearing an off-the-shoulder tee and blue denim jeans. I don't know if it's her exposed shoulders made me turned on more or her looks. We were like inches apart. I sighed deeply while staring at her chocolate brown eyes, feeling ready to confess.