Flaunting LDR

Chapter Twenty One - I Can

It's been a couple of weeks since I left Chicago. Don't get me started with how hard it was for me not to get too emotional when I left.

"I hate to see you go," Marc said, tucking my hair behind my ear. "Can you not leave?"

"I wish."

We were at the airport, and I was about to board in. Rosalie and Travis were taking care of some clarifications with Uncle Ross.

"Why so soon?" He said and looked at me in a pleading and joking manner.

"Marc."

He smiled then chuckled, "Alright. Alright. You won't run away with me to Naperville."

He's been trying to convince me to run away with him to his Gammy's house in Naperville. He says his Gammy loves him the most and would do anything to make him happy even allow him to live in her house with his girlfriend.

I grinned and he mirrored. "I'm going to miss you, Mich."

"Of course, you will. It's me you're talking about," I joked, trying to light up the mood.

"And how conceited you are," he said as he pinched my nose. "And this nose, and your Asian eyes, and your brutal honesty, and your height and your everything."

I know I was beginning to Tomato because he looked at me like "There's the Tomato I like."

"Athena! We must go now!" Rosalie said from afar.

Marc's smile faded and the worry in his eyes worsened. He pulled me in for a tight hug and when I did, I buried my face in his chest. "Take care, Michelle."

I sighed, "I will," I felt my eyes start to well up, and my throat tighten, "for you."

I felt him kiss the top of my head and hugged me even tighter. "Oh God, letting you leave is so hard."

My chest tightened and my eyes started to feel chilly in trying to hold back my tears. I began to sob and my tears flowed to his hoodie. He stopped hugging, held ny arms and moved back to look at me. I looked down to avoid his gaze, and for him to not see me crying.

He lifted my chin and looked at me with concerned eyes. He wiped my face with his thumb and smiled. "Seeing you like this is making me want you not to go all the more. I would grab you from here, since Rose and Travis is not looking at the moment, and I wouldn't even allow you to take your luggage from them cause I am most certainly gonna take you away right here, right now. And we would go away to Naperville with my Gammy. We would have to work our butts off to help Gammy with expenses. I would have to work in McDonald's and you would have to work in Starbucks, since it is an easier job there and I am not allowing you to take a job that requires more effort than I will. You would have to live with just my clothes and Gammy's clothes the rest of your life since we couldn't go out to buy clothes often. And we couldn't just make out anytime cause Gammy would be checking up on us most of the time. So it would be hard to make children. Now you wouldn't want that, do you?"

I couldn't help but smile in the midst of crying. I shook my head and giggled. Marc's face lightened up and he continued to form circles on my cheek with his thumb. "There's the Michelle I know, my Michelle." I smiled when he said my.

He moved his face closer and came in for a kiss. No, the kiss.

As our lips savored each other's taste, I kept thinking. This is what I wouldn't be kissing for months? Or possibly even a year? Now, that's gotta be depressing.

And another thing: Distance. 

Now that is something. 

Soon after that, I left. Marc back in Chicago, and me on the way back to the Philippines. Let me tell you, I cried and laughed and cried the whole way.