After 28 long hours of driving 1,468 miles, we were finally here. Springtown, Texas. The queasy feeling in my stomach peaked when I saw the Shell gas station sign looming in the distance. I remember the nerve racking 30 minutes spent waiting for a car to pull beside us; a car that you were driving in, hopefully having the same feelings that I was. The nerves were again tripled when my phone began to ring. It was your friend James
“Hey, are you in the silver car parked in on the side of the building?”
“Yeah, that’s us” I said, voice shaking.
“Okay” He hung up.
A green truck pulled beside us, the figures inside unrecognizable from the tinted windows. We got out and walked to the truck, the windows rolled down. The excitement was quickly replaced with disappointment when I looked inside to see that you weren’t there at all.
“Where’s Josh?” I asked, quite confused at this point.
“Oh, the dumbass fell asleep. But don’t worry you can wake him up whenever we get there.” I had permission to wake you up. I pictured your face as you woke up to the girl you loved three months ago for the first time. I then wondered if I would look okay compared to what you picture I’d looked like.
Jump forward to us following the green truck up curvy dirt roads. Farm land was to our left and right.
“Five minute drive, my ass.” I mutter under my breath, anxious to get to this house so I could rest. So very tired..
“You have got to be kidding me” my sister says from the passenger seat as we pull up to this run down trailer five minutes later. “Is this really where we’re staying?”
“Oh it’s not that bad…” I state as I open the car door.
The smell of smoke hits me as I walk into the trailer. I can’t tell if it’s the smell or my nerves that were making me nauseous. This trailer didn’t look bad at all.
As we made our way into the living room, I hear “Josh, JOSH! Wake up, the girls are here man!”
So much for me waking him up myself.
I walk down the hall with my head down, focusing on my feet and my suitcase so I wouldn’t have to see you just yet. After I slowly place my suitcase down, I look up. All I see is my sister embracing this boy. I know it’s you, but I’m too shocked to process it. My palms are sweaty, my breath short and uneasy. My sister finally backs away, and I see you for the first time.
I remember exactly what you were wearing: gym shorts and a gray Hollister shirt that read in red letters “Malibu” that I’ve only seen on you in bad quality mirror pictures up until this point. After scanning you from head to toe, I start to focus on your face. It was then that I realize you were staring straight at me. I panicked and went back into the living room where James was sitting. We had a small conversation, the details I can’t really remember now. You walked in the room and sat in the recliner chair in which we would spend countless hours sitting in in the weeks to come.
I remember pulling out the cigarettes I bought for you five hours ago. Camel Crushes.I had never really smoked a lot before this day, but remembering that I told you otherwise, lit up a cigarette and took a long drag. The taste of tobacco hitting my taste buds and the sting of smoke filling my lungs made me somewhat calmer.
More conversations passed before I thought of a plan to get you alone.
“I’m going to get the other pack of cigarettes out of the purse.” I say as I head down the hall to the back room. You’ll follow me, I know you will. I think as I stoop down to reach into the purse on the floor. It was then that I hear the footsteps of someone running down the hall and the weight of a boy tackling me onto the bed in front of me. Gotcha.
“Why haven’t you talked to me all night, meanie?” I hear that oh so familiar voice ask me. I was too scared.
“I don’t know” was really all I could muster.
“Well, get what you need and come out in the living room with everyone. You can sit by me” you say as you get up and walk out the door.
Jump ahead to us in my car a couple hours later. Come to find out, the trailer belonged to your other friend Michael’s grandmother. We had to leave for a couple hours because she was coming to get some things. We decided to go to the gas station to get more cigarettes.
That green truck is in front of us, once again. I look at my phone to check the time; 4:20AM. I was way too tired, so I let you take the wheel. I never let anyone drive my car; I thought it was a big step.
On the way back up to the house, we started talking.
“I’ve missed you, I’m so glad you’re here.” These were the words I would never forget. These words meant I had come down here for the right reason; we might just get back together, after all.
My heart skipped a beat.
Fast forward a bit to me laying in that bed you were sleeping in not too long ago. I close my eyes, breathing the scent of the room in.
“Hey, can I come in?” I open my eyes to see your silhouette in the doorway.
“Of course you can” I reply, scooting over to make room for you. What follows, I will never forget.
You lay down next to me and pull me close to you. The smell of your skin; to this day I can’t find any words to describe it. The sweetest smell in the universe. I can not believe I’m here right now. I start to poke your chest.
“Oh my goodness, I can’t believe this is you!” Still poking. “You’re 3D!”
“Haha yup, that’s me.” That smile. It could light up the darkest room.
We lay here for a while, processing the fact that we were living the night we dreamed about so often of in months past. After a brief period of silence, you speak.
“You know, the only reason I ignored you all these months was because I didn’t want you to know I missed you. You don’t know how hard that was. I’ve always missed you.”
We continue to talk of our old relationship, and what has happened since then. After the conversation died down, you hoist yourself on top of me, proceeding then to give me ‘raspberries’ repeatedly. You do them on my forehead, my cheeks, my eyelids, then my nose. Eventually I stop laughing and you look me in the eyes. Those beautiful blue eyes; they looked straight through me. You gently grab the sides of my face and you kiss me. The moment I was waiting for for so long was here, and it was everything I thought it would be. Fireworks went off in my head, the hair on the back of my neck standing straight up. At that moment, with your lips on mine and this electric feeling pulsing through my veins, I knew. I knew I was kissing the boy I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. The love of my life. We had finally made it, we were together. From that point on we were invincible.
I fell for you that night; I haven’t gotten up since then.
submitted by: sweetxblasphemy
