The Love Box

Chapter 25

I jumped up and looked around the room I was in; I was in the box. Then I looked back down at where I had laid and saw Kai was still asleep.

I smiled as I watched him sleep; he had stayed with me the entire night. Even though he denied our love; I knew it was there somewhere. His arm was spread out across the box as it had been when I went to sleep; I had laid upon it and taken comfort in his arms.

I laid back down on his arm, and I thought about my odd dream. My mind had created an illusion for the fear I had over my friends lives; I knew that, but I didn’t get why it had felt so real. Or why the man was in my dream; my dream had verified my guess on who he was.

But verifying who he was didn’t explain why he was their or why my dream had felt as if it were true; I had never seen or felt anything in a dream that was as realistic as that dream was. My mind couldn’t grab ahold of how I had created such an illusion that I had even fooled myself with. I sighed, and I emptied my mind; I was too stressed to add onto the pile. Nicki wanted to see me, I had a party to attend, we had practice and the recital, and finally my friends and I had to escape.

I rolled to my side, so when Kai woke up the first thing he would see was me. He was a beauty while he slept; I wanted to watch him sleep forever. It was calm and peaceful like reading a book.

Ever since I met Kai I thought I hadn’t really read anything, but I was wrong; I had read Kai.

I always thought that for every person there was one and only one book that was perfect for them and that was why there were so many, and I thought that the book said something personal about its equal; I knew it was true for I had found mine.

Mine was Kai; he was my one and only.

Kai opened his eyes, and his look brought a smile to my face.

“What?” I asked him.

“I forgot how beautiful you were,” He told me; then he leaned toward me and kissed me on the forehead.

My smile grew and I said, “Did our balloon re-inflate over night?”

“It did,” Kai said; then he kissed my cheek. “I thought about how stupid our fight was, and no matter what I know I can’t deny that I love you.”

“I love you too,” I told him. “And you know tomorrow is when our new life begins.”

“I know,” Kai said as he positioned his arm differently and my head fell onto his chest; my head bobbed up and down as he breathed.

“We should probably get going,” I told him as I looked at the vent opening on my side.

He reached his hand to mine and our fingers interlocked.

“Just a few more minutes,” He told me; I silently agreed with him, and I stared at the wall as he continued to breathe.

The movement was calm and constant; it was soothing. I yawned.

“Did you get much sleep?” Kai asked me.

“No,” I answered. “I got plenty sleep. I just, had a bad dream.”

“Do you want to tell me about it?” He asked me.

“Not really,” I said as I closed my eyes and focused on his heartbeat; it was as steady as his breathing, and I wasn’t surprised to find that out. One of the reasons our heart beats was because of our breathing; I learned that in school. The time passed and not another word was said between us until I ruined the silence. “We really should go.”