"Tell me your secret Harry." Eliana said, staring out the large night sky.
So big.
So vast.
"How can you still glow, how can your bones still be of sunshine when you're with me, a cloud, gaping darkness?" She said. Her hair blew back, the stars in the sky reflected in her brown iris.
He smiled and took her face in his ever glowing hands. "Darkness and clouds my love, cannot keep the light out of me." He kissed her forehead gently with his serene lips, silencing her thoughts.
"Say, I'm like the moon. I'll always have light in me, no matter how dim or dark it is outside." He said, a faint smile on his face on his lips.
"But.. but light and dark can never be together. It's not the way life is. It's not the way it should be." She said shaking her head. Harry could only smile at her, he dragged her close to him.
"I fell in love with the way you cradle me to sleep every night. I fell in love with the way you bring me peace in my heart, how you embrace me wholeheartedly every time the sun disappears for me and how you soothe my sunburns with kisses." He said.
He shook his head, evaluating what he said for a moment before continuing. "No, I fell in love with your darkness too much to leave you." He said.
He knew he was in trouble the moment he heard her laugh and his heart danced to the symphony of it.
"Something about you just tells me that I'm going to love you forever."
There was a flower in her heart, it only needed to bloom. And when she let it free, she showed the world that there are certain things, birthed in the dark that can grow to be a beacon of light.
Her flower, bloomed when his light fell on her like rain.
How does love feel like?
For Eliana, it felt as if all that had been lost was now returned with so much more.
All she saw when she looked at him, was someone who had hung the stars, the moon, the sun and the sky that she craved so dearly. All she saw when she looked at him was love.
She fell through great heights for him. It didn't matter if the world came crashing down, it didn't matter if she died right now, it didn't matter if all the stars in the sky came falling down.
The only star she would ever need was right next to her.
"I love you."
She took the fall. She took one last breath and jumped off the cliff, her eyes closed, her heart beating faster than anything.
She fell for him like raindrops, slowly. And that's how an ocean is formed.
He kissed her. He kissed her without warning, without permission. Without even deciding to do it, but simply because he couldn't do anything else. He needed the breath she was holding.
They were passing through the sea between the stars and unknown oceans in simple defiance of the the bounds of earth and norms.
"Take me to Paris." She said.
"You are Paris." He replied.
He looked at her with adore, with amazement, with love. He reached out to caress her face with his fingers. She smiled and bathed in his aura, his scent, his body, his feeling.
He felt like home.
He felt like Paris.
He felt like stars.
He felt like a nebula.
He felt like clouds.
He felt like a dream.
He felt like summer rain.
He felt like love.
He felt like life.
"I promise, that I'll love you forever." She said, looking into his eyes. His eyes watered, he immediately looked away in the other direction.
"I do. I really do promise that. Cross my heart." She said. Harry looked at her, his eyes fixated at her, wondering how could someone be so remarkable and yet so unprecedented, hidden away from the world.
There were no words he could say. All of them had dried in his throat like evaporated water. He could only look at her and let his eyes speak a million words.
He looked at her, her eyes lost in his. And in that moment he realised that his heart would forever be buried within the streaks of amber and chocolate in her eyes. He could not dig out, not anymore.
It would be with her, just like hers would be with him.
"I love you."
The world was spinning only for them. No one could tell them otherwise. No one could tell them that the world wasn't based around them.
But their world was around each other. They were suns around which the planets revolved.
"Get up." She said, getting up from the ledge where they sat. He looked at her with confusion.
"Come on, scream with me! Dance with me! Run with me! The earth is spinning, we can't just stand on it!" She said laughing.
Harry chuckled and got up, dusting off his jeans. Eliana ran down the stairs quickly, Harry followed her, hearing her small screams of excitement.
They entered a large empty street, where the bench was. For the first time in a long time, she came happy there, not with the tendency to break down.
They ran through the cobblestone street, his hand intwined with hers.
She stood at the bench, her eyes looking at the skyline with a large smile only of ecstasy.
What a marvellous feeling it would be, if we could say just how we felt. What a monumental victory. What a terrifying though. What a life would it be.
Eliana and Harry had tasted that life.
They had their hearts broken by people they knew not of well.
They had broken hearts of those people they knew not of well.
That was life after all. They found a home. Finally.
She ran through a large fountain, it soaked her from head to toe but she was too happy to care. She jumped and screamed in pure bliss. Harry smiled, he joined her in jumping up and down. Both screaming and smiling like idiots.
He twirled her around him, kissing her as much as he could. Loving each and every inch of her. The Gods and the universe looking down at them were smiling wide.
He looked at her with a smile, her frame drenched in water completely. He leaned forward and kissed her, water all around them.
Her eyes were incandescence and she glanced back with a gaze pure of love at him.
"You know, in four years, you'll be dancing around our kitchen with a pint of milk, a shitty song in the background and instead of laughing, I'll join you." Harry said, standing next to her, feeling the water soak him fully. He wrapped an arm around her waist, bringing her close to him.
"What a perfectly stupid time we would have."
Fin.