I was stuck on what he’d said when he’d given it to me.
“You love me?”I asked.
“I love your big, chocolaty eyes.And I love your pointychin.”
Ugh.
“I don’t have a pointy chin.My face is oval.”
“It’s a beautiful chin,” he muttered before he kissed it.“It’s still pointy.”
“Whatever,” I mumbled.
“And I love how short you are,” he carried on.
For heaven’s sake.
“I’m not short, I’m average,” I told him, though, in allhonesty, maybe I was a tad bit on the low side of that.“It’s just that you’retall.”
“So…short to me.Still short,” he teased.
I pushed at his shoulders (however, it must be noted, I didthis half-heartedly).“Darius, be serious.”
When he looked me in the eyes again, my heart stuttered to ahalt.
Because hewasbeing serious.
Deadly serious.
“I love your perfect nose and your thick lower lip and theshape of your eyebrows,” he continued.
I wouldn’t say my lower lip was “thick,” more like “full”(though, even I liked the arch of my brows, it rocked).But I wasn’t going tointerrupt him.
No way.
Thus, he kept going.
“And your gorgeous skin and your huge smile and the fact youuse words like ‘alcove’ and ‘omnipotent’ that no one else knows what the fuckthey mean.”
I started giggling even though I kind of wanted to startcrying.
Darius wasn’t done talking.
“And I love how you get on with my sisters, even thoughthey’re pains in the asses, and when you’re over, you always help Mom withdinner, and you sit and listen to Dad going on about the Rockies or the Nuggetsor whatever, like you give a shit, when you don’t.”
One must say, I wasn’t a sports person.
But I loved Darius’s dad, and he was, so there you go.
“Darius,” I whispered.
“But I’m not gonna tell you until we’re under the clouds, orthe stars, or whenever we stop talking, even though something else I love aboutyou is that we always have something to talk about.”
Okay, it was safe to say, I was feeling this.
Feeling everything.
I knew what my dad would say about what I was feeling.Hewould say it’s too soon, being sixteen and finding the guy of your dreams thatyou know you want to spend the rest of your life with.
