Until You Came
So, this randomly came to mind as I was listening to Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You from Lady Antebellum. Hope you guys enjoy this :D
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I've been through too much within the past few years, made mistakes I knew weren't worth making, and married someone I thought I loved but I really didn't. I broke a lot of friendships, lost my way around things and I never stopped to take a minute to ponder about what I was getting myself into.
He let me back in, after everything that set us so far away from one another, he opened his arms and invited me back into his life. Despite how much he had begged me not to considering something as idiotic as a marriage to someone I had known for less of a time than I had known him.
I loved him so much back then but at the time I didn't know it, my entire perspective has changed some much over a small amount of time.
"Stephen," I trembled over the phone last night. "I need you," my voice cracked as the tears piled down my face. "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." I apologized. I couldn't take this pain; I was so wrong, terribly wrong.
I know that the bridges that I've burned along the way have left me with these walls and these scars that won't go away and opening up has always been the hardest thing, until you came.
My face hid in my knees as my leaned up against the wall of what was once my bedroom, the bedroom of a fairytale married couple, a fairytale love; a lie. My right hand brushes thru my wavy auburn hair. "Please," I beg.
"I'm on my way," his deep Irish accent finally spoke from the other side of the phone. The line went dead after that, I squeeze my eyes shut trying to ignore the scenes that replay in my head. Broken glass lay on the floor around me, holes busted thru the, once lovely, light orange walls.
I thought my abuser was back for me, I could hear footsteps coming from the other room, crunching the glass beneath him. I felt immobilized; I don't have it in me to move, my fight was gone, at this point nothing mattered. All I ever had never existed to begin with. Although, he wasn't who I thought he was.
Stephen took me back to his place; no questions asked, no 'I told you so,' no curses in Gaelic so I couldn't understand his anger. His blue eyes just peer out to the dark, damp streets that lay ahead as we sit in the silence that was consuming each other. Stephen's pale hands grip tightly at the steering wheel, his eyes never catching mine.
I lean my head against the passenger side window, the rain that trickled down mixed with the soft hiss of his breathing; they were the most calming sounds I have heard in a while.
As we rolled up to his condo, the silence continued. I didn't know what to say, there wasn't anything that could possibly make this situation better but still, he said nothing, instead Stephen guided me across the soaked grass and up to the front door.
So lay here beside me just hold me and don't let go, this feelin' I'm feelin' is somethin' I've never known. And I just can't take my eyes off you, and I just can't take my eyes off you…
Not too long later were we both curled up on his bed, he had hot tea sitting on the nightstand to our right, the television was on low but I wasn't paying too much attention to it. My head lay upon his chest, the soothing sound of his heart beating and the inhaling and exhaling of his breath, was enough to make me fall asleep while his pale arm frosted over my tan shoulders, sending chills up and down my spine and oddly enough, I felt at peace, I felt protected; I felt everything I was missing this entire time…
My eye lids begin to fall slowly, my mind starting to rest, and whatever had occurred this evening was now a lost memory of the day.
"Aimee," his thick accent whispers. My hazel eyes flutter open and trail up to meet his deep blue gems, he shifts his position upward; I sit up brushing my hand thru my hair once again. "Ye need yer rest," his voice was soft.
My cheek laid on the palm of my hand as I tilted my head and my bloodshot eyes came to his clear, beautiful ones. "Don't leave," I say in a broken whisper. "Please, don't leave,"
He lifted his black t-shirt above his head, throwing it down on the pergo wood floor underneath us. Leaning back against the headboard, Stephen welcomes me back under his pale touch. My eyes couldn't stay on the television; they switched back and forth from it to him.
I love when you tell me that I'm pretty when I just wake up and I love how you tease me when I'm moody but it's never too much. I'm falling fast but the truth is I'm not scared at all, you climbed my walls…
So lay here beside me just hold me and don't let go, this feelin' I'm feelin' is somethin' I've never known. And I just can't take my eyes off you, and I just can't take my eyes off you
I woke up the next morning, still brushed against the soft skin of his chest. My fingers trailed slowly down his frost white skin. "Mornin' lass," his voice lightly chuckles. His blue eyes didn't look as tired as mine probably were. They were hypnotizing, I missed them so much, like they were the only thing I needed after all this time. My lips curve up, not a complete smile but it would take some time before I was actually there.
"Good morning, Stephen." My eyes caught a glimpse of my appearance in the mirror on the long dresser to my left, as I sat up. "I look like a train wreck…" my hand presses delicately on my cheek, slightly purple.
"You're beautiful," he assures me, despite the bruise and the tiny cuts.
Something told me he was honest, as much as I tried to detest it, I couldn't. Stephen made everything different, he made me feel important, and he made me feel alive. I wasn't afraid of whatever could come my way, as long as he was there with me. He could break down barriers other people couldn't even push thru.
Off you
Off you
I laid my head back down to his chest, his heart beat kept me grounded. My arm lies across his freckled abdomen but my eyes just kept finding their way back home; to his.
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