him.
As time went by, Israel moved around to different spots, slowly making his way closer to her. He even sat on his knees on the ground in front of her, like they were two magnets slowly being pulled together. Eventually he pulled himself onto the hammock.
The sun had gone away. For those few hours, nothing else seemed to exist. They were now laying together in the hammock talking and he was playing with her hand. She noticed that he smelled the same way as he had in her dream.
Aira turned and looked into his eyes. She stared intensely into them. They seemed to sparkle more in the night.
“Your eyes are really beautiful, I’ve never seen anything like them.”
“I don’t really look at my eyes,” he laughed lightly.
“You should. Right now they look exactly like that.” She pointed up to the stars in the sky.
Israel looked up, then he sat up and turned to his side a bit and looked at her.
“Let’s see your eyes.” Looking curiously into her eyes, his mouth half open, he smiled.
Israel’s back deck light went on and he looked up towards his house.
“My parents are home,” he said, looking back down at her.
Aira came back to reality.
“Oh crap, my parents.” She quickly tried to get up, the hammock flipped, and they both fell onto the ground. Israel was on top of her.
“Are you okay?” he asked overly worried, moving her hair out of her face. He thought he crushed her.
She laughed out loud and he sighed with relief.
“I’m okay… I should get back though. My mom likes to worry.”
“Okay...” He slowly pulled himself backwards off of her and sat on his knees. “Actually, I have something for you.”
Aira sat up and watched as he reached into his pocket. He felt around nervously, and then pulled his hand out, making a fist.
“I fell in love with it the first time I saw it.”
He opened his hand and dangling on his finger was the most delicate white gold necklace with a very tiny white dove pendant. The necklace was very thin.
“Israel...” she spoke almost breathlessly.
He opened the clasp and reached over her. She closed her eyes as he put it around her neck, and goose bumps ran all down her.
She placed her hand over it to feel it and just looked at him.
“What are you thinking?” His eyes seemed slightly worried.
She was nervous to say what she was thinking, but she did anyways,
“I love being with you.” She spoke very simply, but all the emotion she felt came through her voice and through her eyes.
He sat there on his knees looking at her for a moment, and in an instant he rushed forward and kissed her. His lips were so cool.
When he pulled away, it felt like slow motion to her. Looking into his eyes, she then looked up and the Big Dipper was right above them. It was almost like they were sitting right inside the cup of it. She looked back at him and touched her mouth.
“Ah...” he said, scratching his head and smiling.
“What?” she asked, nervously hiding her smile with her fingers.
“Your eyes sparkle too,” he smirked.
Aira let out a giigle and shook her head.
Israel stood up and held out his hand to help her up. They held hands as they walked back to his car, and he drove her home. The drive for Aira was like a long, drawn out goodbye she didn’t want to have to say.
He pulled up to the side of her driveway and put his car in park.
“Your truck is still at school. If you’d like I could pick you up in the morning.”
“Okay.” She smiled. Even though he was right there, she couldn’t wait to see him tomorrow.
“Hopefully you’re not in trouble.”
Aira looked at the time on his car radio, it was 8:59pm.
“My curfew is actually at nine.”
“Well that’s good, I wouldn’t want to leave a bad first impression.”
Aira smiled and bit her lip. Looking at her front door and thinking for a second, she looked back at him and decided to just kiss him. She then pulled away and he smiled. She smiled feeling painfully shy because it was so
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