Maddox just chuckles as he walks us over to our bedroom.
Our bedroom. Now it’s our bedroom.
Once we’re in the vicinity of the bed. I get places on the mattress and neither Maddox or I have the patients to stay dressed.
Clothes start to fly everywhere and start landing everywhere but the hamper.
It's as the final article of clothing disappears and our lips connect that I realize one thing.
My life didn’t change when I agreed to be a professional athlete’s girlfriend.
No, it changed when I agreed to let a complete stranger walk me home after a shift at the coffee shop.
That night changed everything.
That night we were just two people having fun, in need of a release.
As Maddox slides his tongue against mine, I remember the note that he left me before he left.
That night will be embedded into his mind.
It was, without a doubt, embedded into mine and I thank all the gods in the world every single day for bringing this man back into my life a month later.
We’re not perfect and there are things that we are still learning about each other but we have the rest of our lives to be together.
And I yes, I do mean the rest of our lives. Maddox and I may have only been together, officially, for a few months, but I’ve known for a while now that this fake relationship that we started is made to last forever.
Maddox pulls away from my lips and starts moving his mouth down my body, but before he can get far I stop him. I slide a hand through his hair and bring his face back up to mine.
The second his hazel eyes meet my brown, I feel every single electric current that ran through us that first night.
“I love you.” I tell him, hoping he can feel every ounce of love in my words.
“I love you too.” He says and for a second we just stare at each other.
It’s just the two of us in this moment. Two people brought together by fate. I can see it in his eyes that he’s feeling the same thing I am at the moment.
It all started with a dark roast, and it's continuing with a silent vow of forever.
Fake to forever was never something that I thought would happen, but yet it did.
And I will take every single ounce of it.
THE END.
