[Bailey]
I got jostled really hard and felt something tighten around my waist. It wasn’t bad, though. It felt great, actually. I was happy, and I didn’t know why. It had been a long time since I last felt happy.
The feeling was enough to make me want to keep my eyes closed forever. If I woke up, the rest of the world would take it away from me. I wanted to grab onto this feeling with both hands and never let it go.
But as the haze of happiness dissipated, I slowly regained consciousness. The tightness around my waist turned out to be a pair of powerful arms holding me securely. When I opened my eyes, Ian’s sleep-slack face greeted me. He looked peaceful, and a soft smile curved up the corner of his lips. He was like a painting I remembered from a textbook in school when we were studying
