Only Inches Away
There was yet another awkward pause as they both considered what he had said. “I think I know what you mean,” she said, for once being the one to break the silence. “It’s like one day can change everything.It’s weird cuz I can talk to you about anything. It’s like I feel more comfortable talking to you than to anyone else I know, even the people I’ve known my whole life.”
“Yeah, that’s exactly it.I don’t know how but you just put exactly what I was feeling in words, better than I ever could. How can that happen?”
“I don’t know. I’m not really sure how this works, or why it happened to us, but I’m really glad it did,” she said, stepping a tiny bit closer to him.
“Me too,” he whispered, staring into her eyes.
They both took another step closer.They stared into each others eyes for what felt like forever.She felt like she was standing on the edge of that cliff again, staring out at the world-like she could see everything all at once. They leaned in until they were only inches away from each other…