AUTHOR'S NOTE: I wrote this just now, it is something of an inspired piece...I have found that my muse tends to come whisper into my ear at the most random of times, her soft words trickling into my mind and heart.

Read and review, if you want I guess;


A Question


"Do you understand love, Chizoru?" He asked me that question while his feet were kicking in the ground on the Whitebone Beach, creating little hills as his collided with the loose sand and piled it up on each other. We were just barely out of the nighttime tide reach, but it was quite easy to hear it wave s lullaby in our ears.

I looked away from what my boyfriend of the moment was doing in the sand, and into his quiet eyes. It was so unlike him to say anything of a probing nature about me, as we had an unsaid agreement when we first me to never ask about the other s past. I knew that I had secrets to hide, and I figured he probably did also.

"I think I do", I mused back him quietly. "Love is just that...love. Nothing more, and nothing less. It s being able to not have to say anything, but instead just being able to show it with your actions. If I have a bad day, I don t want you to say anything...but instead be able to just look at me and then take me into your arms and hold me."

My beloved only lifted his right foot out of the warm sand in return, and casted the few grains left upon his toes towards my bare leg playfully.

I tore my eyes away from his own and turned my attention instead out towards the reflection of the crescent moon upon the ocean s surface, it s image only broken by the rippling waves rushing towards shore.

"I love you...like a shooting star, bright and strong as it flashes across the sky until it disappears...yet it s image still lingers on, burned deep within me."

"Is that so, Chizoru?" he asked me as he stepped up behind me, wrapping his arms around my slender waist and his lips kissing briefly against the salty sweat of the nape of my neck through my long brown hair.

"All that it means is that I love you as I love you. It means that I love you as I have never loved before, and will most likely never love quite again. It means that you have made your niche within my heart, and I doubt that I could ever truly eradicate it, no matter how much I might try."

I paused for a moment.

"Do you understand love? " I finally asked him in return.

His only response was to kiss the back of my neck again.

His warm breath rolled down the back of my shirt, setting my arm hairs at attention. I felt the small of my back shift against his form and I closed my eyes as my hands started to fall limply at my sides, only to let them dangle there. The sound of the ocean waves mixed with the soft sounds of his breathing as we simply stood together against the gentle wind.

-fin