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"Kiran," I sighed again, wrappinghis scent

"Main," he whispered hoarsely into ain?" I asked, confused for the htly so he could look ain," then he snature smile and I fell in love with hi for the first time that I sounded different to him too "I love your accent" I stated plainly, as if my point was more valid

"And I love you," Kiran stared deep intoto me the intensity behind them

"I love you, too," I said, out of breath

Suddenly our ain, a firework of adoration that exploded into our y He kissed me fervently as if to take all of my soul in this one embrace I let him, without hesitation I couldn't stop him if I wanted to Our two spirits intertwined like a coinning from the end And at thattorn apart or all of the obstacles we had to face to be together We had each other And that was all we needed

Eventually, the kissing slowed down and I leaned back against the grass to catchwould work out It had to

"Are you all right?" he asked, sliding onto his side next to me He propped his head up with one hand and rested his other on hbut that hand

"Now I aory details of the day

"I hate all this," Kiran said sadly, tracing his fingers around the wrinkles of h Me too," I admitted "Can't we just stay here forever?" I looked around at the perfect backdrop of the forest, the sky alight with stars and buzzing with fireflies, and I couldn't io back to the awfulness of my everyday life

"We could," Kiran smirked and then buried his face in my neck "But that probably wouldn't be very safe for the rest of you And I like the rest of you," he laughed in the depths ofthe joke

"Yes, you know, your sleeping body, the one in the real world," he lifted his head up to kiss me sweetly on the ain He was very distracting

"Oh, right That one," I realized he was right "Someone would find it, and kill it and all that"

"Yes, I suppose so," Kiran stopped kissing ive me the intensity of his aqua eyes

"Like Sebastian's Guards, or your dad or even Seraphina? Actually probably Seraphina," I grumbled

"No Not like them," Kiran replied sternly, like I offended hi to do with that attack?" I couldn't believe he was serious

"Eden, Sebastian is my cousin, and one of my closest friends since birth; he would not lie toarreenery

"I hope for your sake, you're right," I sat up too, the intimate ly

"A threat? What? No Iwiththis day

"You're fighting with me," Kiran looked at me with a serious face, but cracked a smile despite himself I couldn't help le up to him and I obeyed There wasn't the warmth there was before in his arms The perfection of his presence had disappeared but this was better than fighting

"I' to excuse hed and then kissed the top ofht I should probably, like actually sleep anyway," I looked up at hi s, but he did give me a sweet, short kiss on the lips before our Dream Walk was over, and I ake in my own bed surrounded by my pillows and buried deep beneath the folds of my thick coet the day and forget the way I left things with Kiran But I couldn't Even the refuge of sleep, that I usually used to drown out the difficulties of life, escapedtill the birds were awake and the sun was streah myThere was too much on my mind and too much to think about I didn't kno one person could handle it all Everything School, I seemed so hopeless