Mike and Maria
*P.s please imagine in the chapter before they discussed the time he would come over. : PM
It was : pm. My heart was racing. Breath quickening and getting stuck in my throat from time to time. My palms were sweaty and I suspected had maybe used too much aftershave...
Legs shaved. Bathed, brushed and double tooth brushed. My heart was racing like I didn't even know was possible. I'd been sitting on my bed doing absolutely nothing for the past hour...
I'd been pacing for an hour inside my room and occasionally bouncing a tennis ball against the wall, not sure what to do with myself until : pm...
My bedside clock made a sound that made me jump as the second hand ticked over and suddenly I was staring at : pm. It was time...
It was time. I climbed out of my window and started walking across the grass to Maria's house. I had done this so many times before. Hundreds and hundreds of times over the last ten years, but everything about this walk felt different. This felt like the first time I'd ever walked over to her house and I couldn't wait to see her...
I saw him. He was striding across the grass. I had seen him walking across the lawn so many times before. But tonight, it felt like I was seeing him for the first time ever. He looked so different, he looked better than I'd ever seen him. His head tilted up and our eyes met...
Our eyes met and I felt like I was transported to another place in space and time where only Maria and I existed...
I had existed in a fantasy for so long with Mike. But tonight that fantasy was coming true and I was both excited and petrified. I shivered as I opened the window for him, realizing that we were about to cross a threshold together...
I climbed over the threshold and was in her room. She stood a few feet away and we both just stared at each other. No one moved...
I felt frozen. My brain was racing with thoughts of Mike and what we were about to do, but my body felt like it couldn't move...
I moved closer to her...
He took a step forward and my heart screamed and slammed into my rib cage with such force that I gasped...
She took my breath away and I wanted to kiss her so badly. And I never wanted to stop kissing her. I wanted to kiss her until the day we both grew old and died. That's what it felt like with Maria. As if this was the forever kind of love...
I wanted this moment to last forever. It was perfect and more than anything I could have ever imagined. The way he was looking at me right now, was a feeling I could never get used to and something I could get lost in...
It was only in this moment that I realized how lost I had been all these years without her like this. She was my anchor and when I was with her, everything felt better. And tonight I wanted to make sure she understood that. Beyond a doubt. After tonight I wanted Maria to know just how much I loved and cared for her...
"Hello Maria." I smiled at her and a massive smile swept across her face.
"Hello Mike."
"Can I kiss you now?"
I'm not sure why I asked her that. Because the look on her face told me it was okay to do it. But I wanted to make sure that everything that happened tonight was what she wanted. This was about her, and how amazing she was...
Everything about him amazed me right now. He stepped forward and wrapped and arm around my waist and pulled me closer...
I pulled her closer. As close as I could and...
He kissed me.
She kissed me, and it was perfect...
Mckenzie had been right, this was the perfect time for this to happen. Because everything about this moment felt so right. It was the perfect way to say goodbye and...
"I love you Maria."
Mike- Epilogue
I woke up tangled in Maria's arms. We were both still naked and had slept like that the whole night. Her skin felt warm and soft against mine, and slightly sticky. We'd held each other so long and tight that our skin felt glued together. She was still fast asleep and I took the opportunity to study her. And I felt like a total pervert when I lifted the blanket just a little, enough to look at her once again. I drank her all in, in case I didn't get to see her like this again...
God, how hadn't I noticed her before? She was so beautiful, and she felt even better. I never wanted to leave her. Last night had been the most intense and amazing experience, I would never forget it. Not until the day I died. In fact, I'm sure that when I was lying on my death bed the last thing I would picture before I slipped away was Maria...on top of me.
If I thought I'd loved her yesterday, well, that was nothing compared to now...It was nothing compared to how I'd felt about her when I'd been inside her. In that moment when I'd looked into her eyes and held her face between my hands I had decided that fuck it!
Fuck tennis, fuck the scholarship, this was wear I was meant to be. When it was over she had fallen asleep on my chest, which was about the best feeling ever. I lay there unable to sleep and stared at the walls of her room and smelt her hair over and over again.
And it was in that moment that I realized, I had to
