“All you, baby.” He kisses my sweaty forehead, and I lay back, yawning. “Will your mom be looking for you?” he asks softly, tracing down my naked body.

I shiver under his touch and shake my head. “She went to bed early, she’s still got this flu.”

“So we’ve got all night?” Emerson asks, smiling wide.

“We’ve got forever.”

Emerson

I laid there in her arms until morning, feeling the softness of her body, pressed against me, the heat of her skin against mine. I held her, safe in my arms, and knew that now we’d found each other, nothing could break us apart.

We would be together forever, in love, just like this. We would make it work somehow. I knew it with every atom in my body, every dream I’d hardly dared to think. We belonged to each other now, our lives together were only just beginning.

I was wrong.

THE END…