As we stood face to face in the doorway, rain falling beside us and silence in the dark night. My world stopped. This was years in the making. Years of friendship, hanging out together and years of waiting.
I was so nervous. My friends had told me what to do, but this was different. She was right in front of me with those wide brown eyes looking straight into mine. I could smell the perfume that had been haunting my dreams for the past three years.
Brushing her long dark hair behind her ear I had to go for it. I leaned down towards her tilting my head to the left and moving closer. I could see her eyes close as she moved in the same way, closer and closer until our lips met.
In that moment we were alone in the world and I knew exactly what to do. It was like were thinking from the same mind as our heads and hearts moved in tandem.
As everything outside our circle faded away, everything in it became so much more real. I could taste the cherry from her lip gloss and smell the scent from her shampoo. Time no longer meant anything as long as we stayed like this.
All the flirting and jokes, arguments and disagreements melted into one moment. This was where we were meant to be.
All the advice meant nothing. All the movies and TV shows that I had watched meant nothing. Everything that I needed to know was being taught to me right here and now. Both of us unsure and hesitant to begin but growing into it more and more as we figured out what was right and what wasn’t. Working in unison and it just felt amazing. Neither of us willing to break away and end what was a special moment in our life.
Finally after what seemed like a second but could have been an hour, we broke apart and just looked at each other. A smile crept up the side of my face and all the tension left. She started laughing and as we walked back to our friends hand in hand, we knew that it was just the beginning of a chapter.