Chapter 24

|Every| Maybe it was my imagination. Perhaps I was thinking too much, and I had a whole fairy tale in my mind... Grey sounded so desperate. I've only known him for a few days and never saw that side of him. The way his words came out and stopped, came out and stopped, it was like a lullaby that I could sleep while listening to. I loved the way his eyes moved to mine, shifted to the dirt on the floor and the moon that was growing to a perfect circle in a few days' time. And before I could process what was going on. His face was right in front of me, not the 'in front' I would usually say, but too close, closer than close. I could only see darkness, and I could only feel his stubble touching my soft cheeks. My eyes grew wide, and I stopped breathing because everything felt unreal. I felt something really unfamiliar pressed against my lips, and I didn't know what was happening. Suddenly there went a tiny electric shock-like spark from my lips to my heart, to my arms, to my legs, and