Anniversary
"Do you know what today is?"
She was hanging upside down from the tree, her hair dangling down all around him like hanging moss. The kind they read about in school that took over whole trees, strangled them to death. He looked up at her face directly above his, squaring his glasses up his nose.
"Tuesday," he replied factually. She had freckles when he looked real close.
Annie smiled, the kind of smile that wasn't really a smile, a sad smile. "It's our anniversary," she said. She hadn't moved from the tree in an hour. Ben had decided to sit in the grass below her. They sat like this almost too much. Both of them quiet, thinking in their own ways; she in her tree, he in his notebook.
The white rabbit nibbled at a patch of clover near his feet.
"Only married people have anniversaries," Ben replied, patting the rabbit's ears.
Annie shifted on the branch above him. "David and Arlene aren't married and they had an anniversary last week," she reminded him. "There was a party and everything."
"We didn't go," Ben reminded her. He rarely brought his father up in conversation, and never identified him. Always some abstract pronoun that she had learned to pick up on. "Besides, they've got to be thirty or something."
"Twelve is more than a third of thirty," she reminded him. Their noses almost touched. "It's nearly half."
She didn't scold him. She didn't even seem mad. She never seemed mad. She was a smile personified. Like sunshine. She even managed to make him smile sometimes. Like just then.
"I could get you something," he offered.
She shook her head. "I just thought you should know."
Ben tilted his head up and pecked once at her lips. She smelled like leaves, bark. She dipped her head further down and gave him another. Longer. Very soft and quiet. It was a present enough, enough to make her laugh and smile.
She climbed back up to sit atop the branch and Ben scrawled the date into his notebook. He'd remember from now on. He'd definitely remember.
AN: Hello, Losties, I'm back! This Valentine's Day, I have literally nothing to do, so I've decided to pick my 14 favorite pairings and write some sappy vignettes for them! Not all of them will be from one fandom, so if you're interested, check out my profile! This time it's Ben/Annie! I think this pairing has the ability to be sooo sweet, especially since we know nothing about it. And wee Ben is just about the cutest thing ever! Hope you like it! Leave some love, and STAY AWESOME!