Sequel: Us

Yugto

his laugh

His laughter started like a newly lit firework; timid at first, then erupting in a loud splash of colors. Tears welled up in the corner of his eyes as air left his lungs in huge amounts. The waves of hilarity left him gasping for oxygen, his cheeks straining painfully. But in that unrestrained burst of radiant energy, she felt her heart soar. Her lips stretched from ear to ear despite the butterflies in her stomach fluttering uncontrollably. It was a sound that she wouldn't hear in a hundred years but would gladly wait another hundred just to hear it again.