.-.
"are you okay, rachie?"
brittany looks at her, really looks at her, and rachel finds her mouth opening slightly.
no, i'm not.
i'm really not okay.
i'm-
"yeah. i'm fine."
brittany cuddles into her side, blue eyes beaming into hers like glaciers melting, softly and surely.
"no, you're not." and a warm hand wraps around her waist and draws her nearer, muffling rachel's tiny sobs.
.-.
rachel's always been told that allowing someone to fix you, to mend your broken heart, is /bad/
it gives that person power over you and puts the key to your heart in the palm of their hand.
but rachel's starting to see that brittany's hand is warm enough to hold it and keep it [{safe from the world}]
and really? that's all that matters, right?
right?
if she wants to believe in love and all its prowess, than she should damn well give it a shot.
and rachel almost never swears.
.-.
brittany has a glow of innocence about her that rachel can't get enough of.
it's in the way sunlight falls through her golden lashes, blinking on rosy cheeks.
it's in the way her eyes seem to sparkle especially bright when she dances underneath the moon.
&&it's in the way she managed to steal away into the guarded fortress entitled ^rachel's heart^
and still manages to put a giggle and a smile on rachel's face with absolutely no effort at all.
.-.
sometimes, rachel muses, love doesn't happen gradually.
there's no steponesteptwostepthree
It just..comes so suddenly and enticingly that it's all you can do to hold back.
and with brittany's lips so incredibly close to hers that if she leaned forward a bit, she could just-
warmth spreads through her body and she realizes brittany had the same thought.
she smiles into pink lips and wraps her arms around brittany's neck, bringing her flush against her body,
thinking how lucky she is to be able to have the chance to hold brittany's heart, as well.
.-.
brittany and rachel never put labels on who they are.
there's never any "that's my girlfriend" or "that girl over there? she's mine"
they just think of themselves as two people in love.
for really, isn't that what they should be?
because brittany and rachel are everything to each other.
even if it only took a small leap to get to that point.
.-.