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“Cherumoran Kosowens?” He grinned.
“It’s super hard to make well, but I waited until I had perfected it and got a seal of approval.”
He looked up at me, surprised. “You made this?”
“All the food tonight, besides the candy, was made by yours truly,” I said. He stared at everything all over again. “Do you like it? I didn’t want to make it too girlie—”
“This is amazing.” He reached up and touched one of the notes I’d written. “Wow. I’m very touched right now.”
Thank God.
“Dear Gale—”
“Don’t read it out loud!” I gasped, and he glanced down at me.
“Why?”
“Because it’s…it’s embarrassing?”
His eyebrow rose. “Your love is embarrassing?”
“I only want to do one super embarrassing thing right now.”
“And that is?”
I made a face before I grabbed the guitar.
“You wrote me a love song?” He gasped, grinning wide.
“Stop looking at me like that! You are going to make me mess up.” I bit my lip while sitting in place before him. “I tried doing the whole love letters thing. I didn’t feel like they were as good as yours, so I decided to switch back to what I’m good at—music.”
“Now I’m very excited,” he mused, leaning back on the pillow to watch.
I rolled my eyes and focused on my fingers. “I’m not as good with this as the piano—”
“Encore!” he called out, pumping his fist in the air.
“I haven’t even played yet!”
“Doesn’t matter. I’m in love, and I’m going to want more,” he said.
Oh God…focus.
Trying to ignore him, I began to play, singing the first verse, “Before I met you I never knew, how bright the stars shine at night, I never knew how sunshine made every morning all right, how beautiful the world is when I wake up, and you are the very first thing in my sight…”
The thing about music for me was that once I got started…once I was into it…everything faded away, and I could just melt into it. The song, the sound of the music…it felt like swimming in the current of memories…and all the memories of this song was of him. From the first time, I saw him, to us laughing together, teasing each other. It hadn’t even been two whole years, and yet everything felt like…magic.
“Loving you is like magic, Gale—” Before I could finish the words, his lips were on mine, his hand cupping my face.
When we separated, he rested his forehead on mine, his eyes glazed over with lust. “I don’t think I can handle much more right now…I want you too badly. Can I have you?”
“You already do,” I replied, kissing him again.
He took the guitar from me, put it to the side, and then hugged me to him. Falling back onto the pillows, we rolled over as he kissed me. The more he kissed me, the more my mind began to do that thing where it turned to mush. But I wanted to say this now.
“Happy birthday, Gale. I love you.”
He stared down at me, breathing in through his nose. “Bevilën…strip quickly. Before you make me lose all control.”
