After seeing cute to me but embarrassing to him baby pictures of Chris we decided a movie would be best to end the night. Since I was the guest of honor I got to pick. I wasn't deep into cheesy romantics or actions movies so I went with my all time favorite movie, Beyond The Lights. I just always felt like I could relate to the movie. Yes, I wasn't a famous pop star and Chris was nowhere close to being a super hero cop, but I could easily relate my life events to the movie. I was a person who often felt alone. I felt like no one saw me, until Chris. He saw me when everyone else laugh at me. He saw the scars on my arm.
I turned to him as the scene where Noni was on stage singing Private Property. I could see his once relaxed face morph into a displeasing frown as Kid Culprit acts out. It didn't take long for his famous smirk to return when Kaz came on stage to protect her. His light brown eyes then turn to mine. We sat there quietly until he finally spoke first.
"You know I would do the same thing for you."
"You mean run out on a stage in front of thousands of people and punch a bad boy rapper for me?" I giggled softly but his expression was nothing less than serious.
"Jace I would do it in front of millions if it meant you were safe. I don't want this to sound selfish, but I never want to patch up your cuts again. Seeing you in such a broken stage was a feeling that I would never forget, and if I felt that way I can only image what you felt like at times like that." He reached over and pulled me onto his lap and I let him. "I want to never see you sad ma. I want you happy at all times. Seeing you happy and full of life makes me happy. I know I'm not prefect, very far from it and all this might sound like bullshit ma, but you just got something about you that makes me would you and makes me want to do better to keep you. You are something I never knew I needed and now that I have you I'm never letting you go." I felt him grip my thighs then push up to were his soft lips met mine once again.
The kiss was slow and passionate. It felt more than right to be in his arms. To have his lips on mine. I knew I needed him, but I never knew he would need me back.
After dinner with Chris and his mom and the movie with just Chris, it was around 10. I went to tell Ms. Shelly goodnight.
"Oh goodnight sweetie. You are welcome here anytime. Feel free to drop by. Our home is always opened to you." she gushed out while giving me another tight squeeze. Chris looked over at me with concern, but I held up a finger to let her have her time. After a minute that felt let ten she finally let me go looking at me smiling. She then turned to her son rolling her eyes as he stared back at her with his arms crossed.
"If you lose her I will cut you. She is so much better than those hoes you had around my house when you thought I wasn't around. I want grand children." As the words "grand children" left her mouth me and Chris both magically started choking on the air making her roll her eyes at the both of us now.
Chris reached for me grabbing my hand. I gladly took if to get away from the awkward air that Shelly created, but knew nothing about.
I said my last goodbye to Lucy now just before leaving out the doorway. Stepping outside the warm sheltered home, I was hit with the harsh temperature drop of the night. We both rushed to the car not wanting to be in the freezing air longer than we have to.
Inside his car, Chris blasted the heat as we listened to the background music.
"I had fun."
"Will you be my girl?"
I turn to the boy beside me shocked as he kept his eyes on the road.
"What?"
"Will you be my girl chocolate? I kinda confessed my love to you already, but I didn't really hit me that I didn't ask you if you wanted to be mine. I just stated that you are, and you are rather you say yes or no. I just thought it would be nicer if I actually asked you." He said with a goofy boyish grin. I couldn't help but look at him as a smile plastered on to my face.
"Oh so you just decided I was yours huh?"
"I decided you were mine when you jumped on top of me in the hallway. I'm just trying to make it official right now mamas."
Hearing saying all this had me feeling more than butterflies, more than any type of high you could never feel. We both knew want we wanted and that was each other. "Yes."
"Yes?"
"Yes Chris. There's nothing I want more right now than to be your girl. Just like the way you need me, I need you." I saw his face go into nothing but happiness. Since he was driving he couldn't do much, but what he did do was grab my hand and kiss it repeatedly. I laughed loudly at his act of love and happiness.
"You already got me doin cheesy shit ma."
"This is only the beginning. I can only image a lifetime of this."
"A lifetime of us huh? That shit sounds perfect."
"It does, don't it?" I said softly turn my eyes back to the peacefully outside world with my small hand still wrapped up in his.
