Lauren Jauregui Imagines

Perfect

This is based off of Ed Sheeran's song off his new album. I may do a few more.

We were 13, young, free, and unafraid. We went to those stupid middle school dances together and danced in the corner with our friends. I would wrap my arms around her shoulders and she would wrap her hands around my waist. There would always be a gap between our bodies, not that it bothered us at all, as we swayed to the music or jumped up and down to some vibrant music. We would laugh until we were in tears with this stupid smile plastered on our faces the entire time.

On our first date, we went to the mall and since neither of us could drive, our parents drove us. I vividly remember the short black dress that she was wearing that day as she walked in through the entrance of the mall. She was frantically trying to fix her hair, or her "mane" as she liked to call it.

"Sorry I look like a mess." She mumbled and smiled shyly at me.

"You look perfect." I said underneath my breath but I think she heard it as she looked me right in the eye with those piercing green eyes with a gentle smile on her face. I felt my face heat up and I looked down.

For the rest of the date, we nervously held hands and walked around the mall, laughing, getting to know each other better, and fighting over who would pay. I always won. But those stupid smiles never left our faces.

We entered high school together but by then, we were back to just being "friends." It took me until about junior year to finally get the guts to ask her out again. Thankfully, she said yes. I picked her up and she looked gorgeous as usual and drove her to the place. Our date place was some grassy hill that my friends and I found. We climbed up, it being a small hill so it wasn't that bad, and I lay out a little picnic for us to have. We talked and talked until the moon replaced the sun.

I took out my speaker and softly played a song we called "our song" and asked for her to dance with me. The moon cast a soft, golden light down on us and with both of us having taken off our shoes, we danced barefoot on the grass and sway to the music. This brought us back to our middle school days but this time, there was no space between us. I hugged had my arms around her shoulders and her had her wrapped tightly around my waist. The music flowed out of the speaker while we sway to the music in silence. We didn't need to talk to express how we felt.

When the last chord struck in the song, she slowly unwrapped her arms around me and fixed her hair.

"Sorry I look like a mess." She apologized shyly.

"You look perfect tonight." I said. We both smiled at the familiar conversation.

I looked her right in the eye and I knew for sure that she was where my future lay. I could see a family with her, I could see myself growing old and gray and on the front porch in our rocking chairs talking about our past memories, still laughing until we had tears in our eyes, watching our children grow up and fall in love just as we did, see grandchildren be born into the world. We would watch them grow up and play in the front yard, running around, flailing their arms and we would love them unconditionally.

By then, a lot of things would change. It would go from just being the two of us to a full house of kids. They would all grow up and leave the house. We would see loved ones pass away. We would see our children fall in love. We would see grandchildren be brought into this world. Life would evolve around us. Different experiences, and our life finally slowing down to a comfortable lull. We wouldn't have to be running around taking care of other people. The only person we have to take care of would be each other. And through all of these up and downs of life, the only thing that wouldn't change is her. I will always be there for her and vice versa. I would always feel those butterflies in my stomach every time she touches my skin.

That, would never change.

And I knew right then and there, I was in love.

I was in love ever since she walked in that mall with that short black dress. Ever since we were kids, not knowing what love was. She would always be perfect to me.

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A/N
Thanks for reading!! Go check out Ed's new album, it is absolutely amazing and I've had it on repeat for this entire day and I'm obsessed. I'm sorry for any typos or grammar mistakes, I'm horrible at editing. Also, I apologize if this makes no sense, it's really hard to have something in your mind that's so vivid and then putting together words to exactly paint that picture so I tried my best. I know Lauren's name isn't in this but her physical traits are and I don't think putting her name in her directly was fitting. So I decided to its describe her instead. I hope you enjoyed and pease give me some prompts for me to write off of, I'm running out of ideas. I'll try to go AWOL less often. I promise. ~N.H.