Status: that sorta took a turn

In Your Eyes

please love me too

His eyes were fixated on her entire being – the way her hair softly curled its way down her back, the way her eyes couldn’t rest on anything from more than a few seconds before they flicked away, the way her face was all sharp edges and jagged lines but when she smiled all he felt was warmth.

She looked up, her eyes meeting his before he looked away sheepishly. She smiled – that warm, sunshine-filled smile – and pushed his shoulder lightly.

“What?” she asked, turning to lean against his arm as she lifted her book in front of her face.

“Nothing,” he answered, the words almost catching in his throat. He wanted nothing more than to rearrange the words in his mouth -- I love you, please love me too – but he just smiled at the back of her head, trying his hardest to counteract the heaviness in his chest with a lightness in his words.