Aaron stepped way closer than we’d ever stood as friends.
He kept his gaze locked with mine and slowly, as if he wasn’t sure what he was doing, he reached out and stroked my hair, gently.
All the while he looked like he was waiting for me to either jerk away or punch him.
I was a mess, and still tumbling headlong.
He looked at me as if both desperate to hear what I had to say and terrified of breaking the tension, because he didn’t know what lay beyond it.
A mass the size of a grapefruit had formed in my throat. I coughed. “Aaron I love you,” I heard myself say.
His hand grasped my shoulder and he took a breath that sounded like something between a gasp and a sob. “I love you, too.”
I took a breath, then another. Yes, Aaron Cooper whom I have loved for as long as I can remember..loves me back.
He was now looking at my face as if I were Venus in all her glory.
With a smile on his face, he leaned in and with a pause to look me in the eye for permission, kissed me, first hesitantly, and then as if he never wanted to stop.
A flood of emotion spilled loose inside of me.
I slipped my arms around his neck and felt his arms go around my waist.
It was a million times more intense than I’d imagined, even at my loneliest times when I’d hugged my pillow and wished he were there.
His mouth warmed against mine as the kiss went on and on, making my heart race and my head spin.
When he broke off, there were tears in his eyes, real tears!
“I’m sorry,” he said as he reached to dab my tears away and I realized that my eyes are teary too.
“For?” I asked to cover my discomfort.
“For taking so long to figure out what’s what.” he said as I dabbed his tears away with my fingertips.
Then he made an angry face and said
“What was I to think, when you were always telling me, ‘How charming Peter is.’”
“I never said that.”
“That’s what I heard. I heard you sigh wistfully too, many times.”
“You’re losing it.”
“I was, I totally was.”
That made me laugh out loud.
"Hey..its not funny.."he protested, and crashed his lips against mine. I don’t fight his tongue for dominance, but allow him to have his way, freely exploring my mouth.
He looked at me with a determined face, and said “From now on you are only mine." dusk was making his eyes look black.
Yes, it is a beautiful dusk.
“And you are mine."
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