***Zane***
”Please marry me,” Talia repeats, her eyes full of tears as she sets Kota down on the floor.
“W-what?” I ask, unsure if I just imagined her proposal.
She steps on the tips of her toes, cupping my cheeks in her warm, soft hands and repeating the most wonderful words to ever leave her lips.
“I love you,” she murmurs, my heart pounding against my chest as I struggle to hold back my own tears. “And I just realized that I’m going to wake up tomorrow... And you won’t be there,” she shrugs with a sad smile on her face. “And that scares me,” she whimpers softly. “Because I-I don’t ever want to wake up without you. I want your face to be the last face I see at night and the first one I see every morning… for the rest of my life.”
I can’t seem to gather my thoughts and for once,
