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Authors: Alexia Purdy
Tags: Romance, Literature & Fiction, Contemporary, Genre Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Urban, Two Hours or More (65-100 Pages), Urban Life
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Inside my soul
Sucking my life away
Heat in those words
Dig their way on in
Makes it right
Through the night
Leaves me craving more
Slightly affected
Close to rejected
There’s someone in there
I want to know
More than this
Something to wish
Your words I crave
More of it shows
Leave this craziness
Ride the wind instead
Where the road turns
Mistakes to learn
Stays along with me
Needing this to live
A bit of you, a piece of me
This fusion made
A perfect trade
In need once more again
Slightly affected
Close to rejected
There’s someone in there
I want to know
More than this
Something to wish
Your words I crave
More of it shows…”
Suspending the last note, I let it fade out naturally before ending the music. I couldn’t look at anyone, for now I had a larger audience. Liv was leaning against the doorframe, and Saul was sitting up fidgeting with the thick goatee he was sporting. I wasn’t sure what to feel except maybe to jump up and run. I hated putting my feelings out there like this, hated it. Now they all knew what was inside, and it made me feel like a freak.
“That was wicked.” Liv turned away and disappeared down the hall. Now I couldn’t decide if that bothered me more than her watching me sing my new song. I turned toward Saul, and seeing his grin bursting made my spirits brighten.
“She’s right, you know. You write the most amazing songs. True, natural talent.” Saul joined me on the bed and slipped his arm around my waist. I leaned my head on his shoulder, sighing with happiness as the anxiety immediately calmed. He had that effect on me, and it was better than any kind of drug I could take for it.
“Thanks.”
“I get the feeling you don’t believe me.”
I shrugged. “Of course I believe you. I just…I…” I groaned in frustration and jumped to my feet. “It was a personal song, not meant for anyone to hear it. Now that you have, I’m not sure what reaction I wanted. Maybe something more? I don’t know. It feels anticlimactic.”
Saul looked like he was thinking about what I’d said, and his silence filled me right back up with the anxiety that horded my brain when he first asked me to play the song. It’d been for him, all for him. It’d been of him and about him, for him. How much of my soul could I rip out and hand to him without him realizing it? I hoped it wasn’t going to take too much. The fall was full of pain.
“Audrey, you know I loved that song. I was sitting there thinking, if only it was about me.”
My eyes widened. “How could it not be?”
His instant smile made my heart flip. Could he think I didn’t love him?
He reached out and pulled me closer, his strong, firm arms gently holding me, and I melted into his chest, smelling faint cologne and his sweet skin. I wanted to kiss him but didn’t want to break the moment.
“I love you, Audrey.”
I looked up into his nearly colorless eyes, tears forming in mine. “I love you too, Saul. I’ve never felt like this for anyone else in my life. Tell me it’s not going to fall apart. Everything always falls to pieces.”
He nodded, letting my tear streaked face lean against his shoulder once more.
“I’ll always be here for you. Don’t forget that. I love you more than you’ll ever know, and I hope you can one day know just exactly how much. I’m so glad I took that ride with you and Liv that day at the motel. I could’ve said no and let my love drive away.”
I let the tears soak his shirt, leaving a snotty pile on his shoulder. I felt horrible doing so, but I couldn’t stop the tears from falling. He gave me the best present in the world that moment, and I didn’t want it to be over. The minutes turned into hours as we talked about our lives, until our bodies acted out the words, mingling in sensations I could never tire of. Then we laughed and chatted more, until we couldn’t hold our eyes open anymore and sleep took its turn
Inside my soul
Sucking my life away
Heat in those words
Dig their way on in
Makes it right
Through the night
Leaves me craving more
Slightly affected
Close to rejected
There’s someone in there
I want to know
More than this
Something to wish
Your words I crave
More of it shows
Leave this craziness
Ride the wind instead
Where the road turns
Mistakes to learn
Stays along with me
Needing this to live
A bit of you, a piece of me
This fusion made
A perfect trade
In need once more again
Slightly affected
Close to rejected
There’s someone in there
I want to know
More than this
Something to wish
Your words I crave
More of it shows…”
Suspending the last note, I let it fade out naturally before ending the music. I couldn’t look at anyone, for now I had a larger audience. Liv was leaning against the doorframe, and Saul was sitting up fidgeting with the thick goatee he was sporting. I wasn’t sure what to feel except maybe to jump up and run. I hated putting my feelings out there like this, hated it. Now they all knew what was inside, and it made me feel like a freak.
“That was wicked.” Liv turned away and disappeared down the hall. Now I couldn’t decide if that bothered me more than her watching me sing my new song. I turned toward Saul, and seeing his grin bursting made my spirits brighten.
“She’s right, you know. You write the most amazing songs. True, natural talent.” Saul joined me on the bed and slipped his arm around my waist. I leaned my head on his shoulder, sighing with happiness as the anxiety immediately calmed. He had that effect on me, and it was better than any kind of drug I could take for it.
“Thanks.”
“I get the feeling you don’t believe me.”
I shrugged. “Of course I believe you. I just…I…” I groaned in frustration and jumped to my feet. “It was a personal song, not meant for anyone to hear it. Now that you have, I’m not sure what reaction I wanted. Maybe something more? I don’t know. It feels anticlimactic.”
Saul looked like he was thinking about what I’d said, and his silence filled me right back up with the anxiety that horded my brain when he first asked me to play the song. It’d been for him, all for him. It’d been of him and about him, for him. How much of my soul could I rip out and hand to him without him realizing it? I hoped it wasn’t going to take too much. The fall was full of pain.
“Audrey, you know I loved that song. I was sitting there thinking, if only it was about me.”
My eyes widened. “How could it not be?”
His instant smile made my heart flip. Could he think I didn’t love him?
He reached out and pulled me closer, his strong, firm arms gently holding me, and I melted into his chest, smelling faint cologne and his sweet skin. I wanted to kiss him but didn’t want to break the moment.
“I love you, Audrey.”
I looked up into his nearly colorless eyes, tears forming in mine. “I love you too, Saul. I’ve never felt like this for anyone else in my life. Tell me it’s not going to fall apart. Everything always falls to pieces.”
He nodded, letting my tear streaked face lean against his shoulder once more.
“I’ll always be here for you. Don’t forget that. I love you more than you’ll ever know, and I hope you can one day know just exactly how much. I’m so glad I took that ride with you and Liv that day at the motel. I could’ve said no and let my love drive away.”
I let the tears soak his shirt, leaving a snotty pile on his shoulder. I felt horrible doing so, but I couldn’t stop the tears from falling. He gave me the best present in the world that moment, and I didn’t want it to be over. The minutes turned into hours as we talked about our lives, until our bodies acted out the words, mingling in sensations I could never tire of. Then we laughed and chatted more, until we couldn’t hold our eyes open anymore and sleep took its turn
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