I held Clare so close to me, I felt her heat generate through me. The winter air around us had no affect on my temperature. I always felt warm around Clare. She had this affect on me, I felt hypnotized. She stared into my eyes, her cheeks red and rosy from the cold. Her fingers touched my cheek, and slid down them. I held her closer. Her face moved closer into mine, and I kissed her so gently. We stopped kissing for a moment, just long enough for me to whisper, "I love you, Clare Edwards." She kissed me again, a little more heavy than the last, her tongue slipping between my lips. Both of her hands held the back of my neck, my hands on her back, around her waist, just holding her. It all felt so right. I leaned up against the tree, still kissing Clare, the cold, dark air surrounding us. Our lips broke apart, and she whispered, "I love you, too. More than you know."
I look her hand, and she sat down next to me. We rested against the tree I was leaning against, and her head fell against my shoulder. I stared up into the starry night. I should of been thinking about how much I loved Clare. My future with Clare, my life with Clare. But I couldn't. I couldn't get the image of Julia out of my mind. All of a sudden, I heard Julia's voice next to me.
"Eli, isn't the sky beautiful?" I turned to look at Clare, but it wasn't Clare. It was Julia.
"What!" I was so confused. My head started to have a throbbing pain on the side of my head, but I didn't care. Julia was right in front of me, and all I thought about, was kissing her. So I did. My lips touched Julia's lips, and we started to kiss. It was a soft kiss at first, then turned into such a passionate kiss. I leaned back, my back touching the ground, and Julia on top of me. We stopped for just a second, our faces inches apart, my eyes still closed, when I murmured to her,
"I missed you, Julie-Bear." I went to go kiss Julia again, when she pulled away. I opened my eyes to see Clare on top of me, instead of Julia. Clare's eyes were wide, her eyebrows raised.
"What did you just say...?" I was shocked. What happened to Julia! I looked around the park to see no one, other than us. Where had Julia gone?
"Clare?" I said with a puzzled look on my face. I had been kissing Clare?
"What...? Why are you surprised to see me?"
"No, no...sorry. I'm sorry, I'm just so tired. It's 3am in the morning." I gulped, looking into Clare's deep blue eyes, trying to find if she believed what I had been saying. I saw something in them, something that knew that I wasn't tired, and what I had really said. I was afraid she would get mad. Clare stood up, and right when I thought she was going to walk away, she gave me her hand and helped me up off the ground.
"Then let's just go. I'm kind of tired, too. Morty is over there, right?" She pointed in a direction, where I parked Morty behind a huge tree on the street.
"Yeah, yeah. Come on. It's getting really cold out here, too. You're lips even look blue, Clare." She stifled a grin, took my hand, and we started to walk towards my hearse.
"Are you sleeping over tonight, again?" I looked at her, waiting for an answer.
"Nahh. My mom would flip, again. Besides, church tomorrow. 8am, bright and early." She rolled her eyes and chuckled. I gave her a smirk. I looked up into the sky again, then looked back at Clare. When I looked at her, I swear it was Julia. I closed my eyes, opened them, and found Clare back holding my hand, not Julia. What was going on?