Status: wip. 12/13/17

The Rainy Day Fund

VI. Content

"Stop trying to control your future," I said.

He looked at me, not like a confused puppy, but as someone really trying to unravel the meaning themselves. His gray blue eyes calculated me, took in every sharp edge that'd been able to go unintended for so long.

"You know Alex," he said, finally locking to my eyes and staring into my soul, "if it were that easy neither of us would be in this predicament right now."

That's when I knew I loved him, or at least the other part of him. The part of him that wasn't currently ripping shreds into my being with every flick on his tongue. The part of him that was soft, like the way he looked at me when he wasn't trying to telepathically kill me.

"I'm content with you, and if this is how my life is going to have to be in order to be with you, I'm completely fine with that," it was a statement meant with all my sincerity.

In lieu of words he kissed me.