She needs him more.
She has never needed someone.
It scares her to feel herself functioning off of someone else.
She wonders if he loves her.
Her mother tells her that they need to love her more.
More than what?
More than you love them.
His eyes write love letters inside her body,
His hands smooth all creases,
All lines.
When he kisses her she feels like she'll never stop.
When he asks her to stay,
When he holds her in his bed,
She feels like she'll never leave.
She closes her eyes against his shoulder
And she cries because she believes that
She would never find him.
He smells like home and old books.
Like warmth and dust.
Like he had been waiting so long.