Life Moves On • Zach Herron

thirty nine

i walk over to zach and wrap my arms around him "you like it?" he asks me as i pull away from him, his hands move down to my hips and he gently pulls me closer to him

"i love it, it's amazing" i say looking around me before looking back at zach

"i'm glad you do" he says and i lean up to kiss him

"how about we go and sit down?" he says and i nod following him to go and sit down

i look around at the place zach brought me to, we were sat on a patch of grass on a little picnic blanket which had a picnic set up on it, all of which was next to a lake which held behind it a view of tall trees, hills and, of course, the sky

"how did you do all of this?" i ask still not quite believing this was actually happening

"well i had some help with working out where this place actually was and then i needed someone to set up the picnic before we arrived but i'll tell you about that later, let's just enjoy our date for now" zach says and i nod and smile

he hands me a little cup of apple juice and i take a sip

"what do you think everyone thought when they saw our posts?" i ask

"i don't know, i put my phone on silent so that it wouldn't interrupt if they started spamming the group chat" zach says and i laugh and nod "i did the same but they probably have"

"do you wanna check or should we wait until later?" zach asks and i think for a second

"let's wait, i wanna enjoy this without having anyone else being a part of it" i say and zach nods in agreement

we talk about random things and laughed a lot while eating some of the items that zach had put into the picnic

"you know, while you were gone there wasn't a single day that went by that i didn't think about you" zach said and i smiled

"really" i ask before laughing "why did i say that? you wouldn't of said it if it wasn't true" i said and zach chuckled at me

"i meant it thought, i basically dedicated myself to you in case one day i found you again"

"well you did, after you realised it was me" i say and laughed at the memory of zach realising who i was

"i can't believe i didn't recognise you" he said while rubbing his forehead as if he were remembering his own stupidity

"well at least we are where we are now" i say looking into zach's eyes before smiling, our faces grew closer and our lips met

however this was more than our usual kisses, it was slow, meaningful and held a hint of passion behind it

"i like you" zach said once we pulled away "i like you too" i say smiling, feeling a slight blush creeping onto my face

"i like you more" zach says and i laugh and put my head on his shoulder "i'm not starting to do this" i say

"whatever could you mean?" he asks in a slightly sarcastic voice "now where've i heard that sentence before" i ask meaning the comment we left on each other's posts from earlier