*Fall's POV*
After a month and half of counseling, it still wasn’t helping me with the one most significant piece of memory missing of Kylar. I knew everything I did before, but that one bit was bothering me so much. It felt heavy. It was getting harder to hide from him that I remember our memories together, and him in general. I was proud of him for being patient with me, but I wanted nothing more than to hold him in my arms the way I used to, but doing that without ‘remembering’ him would make him grow suspicious. It’s time.
“How was today’s session?” Kylar helped me into the car after I came out of my counselor's office. I shook my head with a deep sigh. Biting down on my lip, my heart felt heavy.
“Can you stay with me tonight? I think that might help.” The words slipped out before I even had a chance to change my mind. Kylar looked at me surprised. It wasn’t something I had asked in almost eight months now. He gave a soft smile before nodding, and then started driving towards my house.
The moon shined brightly down on us as we swam in the pool. Kylar laughed brightly as I splashed water at him jokingly. Swimming towards me, he picked my body up and dunked me under the water. Emerging from it, I laughed genuinely. It had been a while since we could laugh like this, and it broke my heart. Why did Haven hate our love so much? All we did was love each other deeply. How was that so wrong?
Both calming down from our laughing fits, we slowly approached each other. Kylar held me in his arms, while I wrapped my arms around his shoulders and hugged him close to me. His wings filled my view as my head rested on the top of his shoulder. His muscles made my back tingle as he held the back of my head. His embrace was warm and felt so safe that It almost made me break down and cry.
It wasn’t fair. We had to run and hide all the time just to love one another. He didn’t know I knew this, but he would take me on little trips to throw the government angels off of our trail. I could tell he was getting tired of it. He was growing weak from watching over me all the time, every day. Finally, I built the courage to talk to him.
Pulling out of the hug, I grabbed his hand and pulled him towards the end of the pool, and we sat on the little bench inside of it and looked up at the moon. “There’s something I want to tell you.” The words were quiet, but I knew he heard me. It was hard to tell him. I knew how he’d react, and the thought that he might leave was utterly painful.
“You know you can tell me anything.” Kylar wrapped his arm around my shoulder and pulled me close to him. His entire aura made me not want to speak, but I knew that it would eat me alive if I kept hiding this from him.
“I…” I took a deep breathe trying to calm my racing heart. “I remember you.” I pushed it out before I could back out of the decision. I could feel his body tense up next to me. “Our memories together...how we started dating...and that...you’re my guardian angel..” He now moved to look at me, his wings spreading out behind him, glowing brightly and pulsing from the shock.
“Is that all you remember? Wait...how long have you remembered?!” He was more shocked than I was expecting. It was almost hurtful that he wasn’t happy or excited…
“Well...remember that day I kissed you for the first time after my coma? All our memories hit me at once during that moment. I remember up until you took me to Haven. After that, it’s just blank though... I do know that the government angels are after us.” Kylar looked infuriated but sighed in relief regardless. “Aren’t you at least...a little happy? Do you know how much, every single day, I’ve wanted to hold you and kiss you as if nothing had happened? As if my memory was never gone?”
“Silly,” Kylar pulled me close to him and rested his chin on the crown of my head. Even his wings folded in and hid us from the world. He pulled away from the hug and looked down at me, tears rimming his eyes. “You have no idea how happy I am. I was afraid that I would never have a place in your memories again.” He planted his lips on mine, and that beautiful, in-tune orchestra, was finally back. Our bodies instinctively moved closer, his wings, brushing my skin, causing goosebumps to form on my back.
I was happy I told him; otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to hold him like this again; however, I was worried about what was to follow. Not only because of the decisions he might make, but also because back when we first faced the government angels, it was easy for them to find me because I had my memories of us together, and that was probably why they couldn’t find us for the past six months; Now though, it would be a different story. I will protect Kylar, even if he refuses to let me.
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