It felt like a literal eternity had passed in the time that we just stood there, hugging one another as if nothing else mattered, as if the rest of the world didn’t exist. But in reality, it was probably nothing more than a few seconds, a few good seconds that had been well-spent. My heart almost broke when he started to pull away from me, and by the way that his arms still lingered around me, I knew that he was as reluctant to separate as I was.
“I feel like we’ve done enough hiding up here for one day. My parents are still downstairs, and I feel like I’m starving. Maybe we can convince my mother to make us breakfast.”
I pulled away a little bit farther away from him, so that I would be able to see his face more clearly, and I realized that he was serious. He was absol
