To the Moon

•••A story about Michael falling in love with someone who's been falling in love with him for a long time•••

“and I texted you back.” Michael tipped his head covered in flaming hair to the side and took a step closer to me. “but you didn’t answer.”
I tried to remember what Carmen had said about playing hard to get, but I couldn’t hear my thoughts over how hard my heart was pounding and how green his eyes were as they roamed intensely over me.
“Did you?” I took a deep breath and a step back, not messing anything up for myself by gushing all over him, “I didn’t notice.”