The urge to jump into his arms and feel the warmth of them surrounding me is so powerful, I wonder if it's medically possible to be addicted to another human being.

I'm ready for something private, private and real

When my eyes meet his gaze as we're sitting here staring at each other, time stops. Those eyes are piercing mine, and I can swear at this moment he senses the real me. The one without the attitude, without the facade[...]

Nobody really knows herExcept the chosen fewHer secrets are kept hiddenBehind that sun-kissed hue.If I reach out to touch herShe’ll just run awayMy Forever and AlwaysWill have to wait another day.

Maggie squeezes my hand. It’s a silent message that everything will be okay. Somehow I believe her. In the end everything will be okay. But hurdles have to be jumped through first.

My brain tells me it will be better to just let him go.My heart... not so much.

Tell me what we had was real, I whisper.

I don't belong here. It doesn't matter, because even if I don't belong in this place, she's here and I want to be where she is.

Who am I kidding? I have no reason for being here other that the fact that I want to be near her.