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She waited to answer lued to the sky "I can’t find Draco"

I looked up again There were no stars to be seen The black of night was coray of low coastal clouds

She took in a shaky breath and then shot me a look before her eyes darted away like skittish birds "You told ht, no matter where you are in the northern heht What does that mean?"

I reached out and touched her smooth, cool cheek with the back of htly that it was almost impossible to notice "You can’t see Draco because you can’t see any stars tonight It’s the marine layer"

The breath shivered out between her lips and she closed her eyes I continued to stroke her cheek "I want to see it I need to see it"

"You just have to trust me You can’t see it, but it’s there, I promise Do you trust me?"

Her head sank as she lay back flat on the sand I bent over her, looking upside down into her eyes Our gazes locked Suddenly it was hard to breathe I stroked her cheek again Her eyelids fluttered like butterfly wings She was as delicate as one of theht of her in those terms before

She was vulnerable And in many ways she was at the htened

She watchedher hand around my neck as if afraid I would pull away "You knohat I love most about your eyes?" she asked

I frowned, confused at the abrupt change of subject

Her thunore the tingling her light touch evoked I wanted to pull her hand away but she was so breakable And I’d pushed her away earlier

"They are so beautiful--your eyes And so different"

I sighed, tried to laugh it off E It didn’t take a genius to understand why she’d be feeling sorilimpse of my Mia return "Whatever Deal with it Your eyes are beautiful In a totally htened the cla me closer to her Our eyes were inches froaze ht

"They are so dark, so mysterious I used to think of the on inside But tonight I think of the I can see myself in there"

My breath stuttered a little "Oh…" I answered in the set sed up in the aular lap of the water on the shore, the distant hiss of the freeway even in the early"Oh, you’re in there, Mia You are , just feeling,different ways, my top lip sealed over her botto her upside down And this kiss held more than passion, more than a declaration of desire It held love My love Her love They collided like waves crashing against a barrier that prevented theed, unmovable jetty that protected the harbor fro coast

"Spider-ainst my mouth I kissed her chin, her cheeks and the tip of her nose She referred to the famous kiss Spider-man shared with Mary Jane in the first Marvel movie Cohbor, Peter Parker, Mary Jane had peeled back his mask from the bottom half of his face and passionately kissed hiled upside down frouised to her as Peter Parker had been from Mary Jane? In many ways, I was I wore a mask because this wasn’t the tione on between us My lies Her lies Our respective secrets They’d created that barrier between our hearts and there was no telling if they were surmountable But noas not the ti and one thing only Her survival

A thin, silvery tear leaked fro back, stroking her cheek

"I’," she whispered