Saving Grace {Haylor}

Mommy

I gush with laughter at the story Harry is telling me about Annie and how she's exactly like how he was. "My buddies were leaving and so I was walking them to the door, Annie thought my beer was mountain due and took a chug, beer everywhere, matched with shrieks."

I hold my stomach, I'm laughing so hard it hurts. "I can't believe she did that?! What did you do?" It seamed like everything was funny at this point. Harry insisted that we needed to lighten up so he ordered tequila shots within our milkshakes.

"Alyssa ran over, assuming the world was ending. But I knew exactly what happened and was too busy laughing to explain." His eyes are squinted and his nose is turned up as his body slams on the back of the booth bench.

Harry wasn't drunk. And neither was I. We've just been way too tense so when an opportunity like this came up, we took it and let go. Harry hope to my slide of the booth and slides my legs up on his lap. The girls had learned to not bug us or judge us. One of them had kinda been a friend of mine back in the day. Another was a sister of Austin's best friend, so they all knew what I had been through. Yet somehow, they were still nice to us. And they still leaned over the counter, awing while we kissed.

That's actually exactly what Harry does. His hand wraps around my hip and he slips his fingers in the back pocket of my shorts to hoist me up even further. I'm a ball of laughter and I'm more concentrated on the glaze in Harry's eyes than the kiss I'm about to receive.

He's concentrated on my lips. Like he's savouring them before they even meet. His hand goes to the back of my neck and he tilts my face to kiss him. His kiss tastes like his milkshake. Peanut butter and chocolate and a splash of tequila. He ruffles my hair as I push deeper into the kiss. This is where my happiness was. In this diner with this kiss and these milkshakes. With this boy and all that our love had to offer. I pull from the kiss and push my forehead against his. "I love you."

"I love you more."

"Har?"

"Tay."

"What's our plan. Are we still moving. What's going on."

He licks his lips. "Do you want to move?"

"I don't think I can leave that little girl, Har."

He nods, "she needs you more than she needs me. I'm a dad. I'm there to beat the guys up that break her heart and you're there for the comfort. If you left... I don't know what I'd do."

I nod slowly, "so, the house. The location."

"Should we buy right away? I heard the market is right. Well, that's what your dad says." I shrug. "It's up to you. I'm making you change your life around completely. You should at least have a say."

"Nashville?"

"Nashville it is!"

I slide off his lap, "do you have that kinda money, to just... Buy a house?!"

"Don't worry about money." I elbow him and he pretends to buckle over, as if it actually hurt. I just roll my eyes and do it again. "I've got enough of that stuff, you won't have to ever worry about money. Even when I'm dead, especially when I'm dead. You and Annie will be set."

"Dear god, I never wanna see that day."

"You won't." He kisses my temple and wraps me in his arms. "So, house hunting. Maybe we should take Annie down to Nashville. Show her around and look at some places. That would be nice. She loves being involved."

"Like father like daughter." I chuckle and look up, our lips press together almost instantaneously.

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