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He picks up the pace, and I turn and run along the beach, knowing the inevitable will happen as I could never outrun Dylan. Strong arms seize my waist and Dylan attempts to prise my fingers off the shell. "Let me see!”
I giggle, leaning away from him, the joy of the childish moment as refreshing as the breeze coming in from the ocean. In the dream world of rock stars and movie stars, of crazy weddings gone wrong, overdoses and deaths, we have the constant of our bubble world. Wherever I am with Dylan, we're in a safer, happier place created by us.
The shell falls from my hands, and I push at him as he tries to grab the shell before I do. Dylan knocks me over and I land on my back on the damp sand, looking up at him as he kneels over me. His darkened gaze shifts to where the strap of my dress has moved. Lacing my fingers around his neck, I pull him toward me. Our mouths hover close, the familiar sensation of our lips touching, even though they're not, is there. He pushes my hair from my face and brushes his lips against mine.
"What do we do? Stay in the States? Where do you want to be right now?" he asks, dropping tiny kisses across my face as he does. My scalp tingles, body wanting him closer.
"Here," I whisper, "or wherever I am that's with you." I search for his mouth with my lips, but he keeps his at a distance.
"I like here too. We can live here?" Dylan murmurs. "There's no real winter here, so you can always be my summer Sky. Just like I always wanted."
The intensity of the moment translates into the shaking mess I become when he kisses me, the skill of his kiss, and the smell of the ocean pulling me back in time to Broadbeach.
Our first kiss on the beach last year held the promise of something unknown and forged a connection that kept us safe in our strange world by the sea. The hurt girl and the damaged guy came together, and a strange, illogical love bound us together. Dylan taught me that love isn’t something you find in the places you look hardest, but love is something that finds you.
A part of Dylan lives in the centre of who I am—in my body, heart, and soul. He is all my todays and every tomorrow, forever.
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