"I don't believe you!" The admonishment slipped from my lips as I spun in his arms, the world moving past us, and I still couldn't manage to keep up.
And I didn't believe him. The blush that slipped across my cheeks, already warm from the cocktails I'd had, belied my feelings...how much did I pray that his words were true? How much did I wish to close the shrinking gap between us? How much trouble would my heart be in if I let myself fall into his expertly placed trap?
Life...little bits of moments strung together for us to collect and look back on. Was this one I would look on later and smile? Regret? Or worse...wonder? What ifs could be the stuff of nightmares. And were, for me. There were, after all, far too many chances I'd not taken. I lived on the side of caution.
Those what ifs haunted me like shadows, and now, the green eyes smiling down at me, sparking in the half-light around us, challenged them. He was threatening to take them down, make me forget, for just a little while. For me to pretend that cowardice did not plague my every relationship.
As if he had chased me through my torrent of thoughts, his fingers stopped my backward motion. I wanted to run, and he knew it. How could he know it?
"You should." Believe him? How could I? When I'd been trained into running from even the remotest threat to my heart?
"How?" I breathed, stilling beneath his beseeching gaze.
"Trust."
To trust...to fall? Could I?
Before I could set my mind whirring on that broad spectrum of questions and doubts, his breath mingled with mine for the briefest of moments until his lips descended onto mine, angling to catch my need, to withdraw my fears that had plagued me for far too long.
As my arms found their way about his shoulders, a single thought crossed my mind for an instant...
Sometimes to be lost is all one needs to be found.
Author's Note: Heyaz! I know, it's been too long, as per usual, but I must remind you that I said this would not be updated often! Well, moving on... I'm talking to someone I thought I'd never really talk to. It just seemed we never had anything in common. But talking to him now, it turns out we have a great deal in common and we're just kind of chatting it up. We happened to bring up the subject to risking hearts. As he is a writer as well, I just had the need to get this out. :) Enjoy, as always!
