"Meghan, please, please, please read another chapter! What does Mia say?!" the brunette girl asks.
"I think you know exactly what she says," Meghan responds.
"Nuh-uh. Do you, Hailey?!"
The black-haired child, Hailey, shakes her head, her curls bouncing.
"See, Meghan, read us another chapter!"
Meghan chuckled at the girls' antics. "Fine. But only one more chapter." She glared at the two little girls. "Then you both have to go to bed."
The question had knocked the breath out of Mia. Out of every single sappy thing she'd ever thought of, including how she accepted her last engagement, the only thing that came to her mind was one word. However, that one word was not her answer.
"Yes. Yes! A million times yes!" Without missing a beat her soft gentle lips crashed on to his wind chapped ones and passion erupted between them. James traced her bottom lip with his tongue. Mia gladly obliged and the kiss deepened considerably. Faintly, Mia noted the significant feeling of her engagement ring being pushed onto her finger.
The heavy kiss was shorted due to lack of air when Mia pulled back and smiled. "I love you with all my heart," she whispered. "I couldn't dream of a more perfect man to marry."
"I hope I'm the only man you dream of," he teased.
Mia bit her lip and plastered on a look of guilt. "Well… the one that's my fiancé. The rest are just friends and family."
"Oh, are they now?" he asked. "Friends you say?"
"Mm-hmm, like Smee and Peter and Leonardo, Tate's boss," Mia explained. "That enough about my guy friends. You've just won the heart of the princess! What are you going to do next?"
James just gazed at her, his pale blue eyes boring into her darker ones. How in the world did he end up with the greatest woman in the world?
"I would bet my life like I bet my heart" she sang softly.
That you were the one, baby
I've never been so sure of anything before
You're driving my heart crazy
I can't hold out
I can't hold back now
Like I've done before"
His icy eyes looked away and into a candle flame. She was absolutely perfect, if his word was anything to go by. Since her return his observation had only proven truer. She had such a kind heart, a wonderful personality. She actually managed to calm a lot of the animosity on the Jolly Roger, shockingly.
"Darling, look at me
I've fallen like a fool for you
Darling, can't you see
I'd do anything you want me to
I tell myself I'm in too deep
Then I fall a little farther
Every time you look at me"
A small smile graced her lips as he looked back to her and she blushed a deep scarlet. "I'm sorry."
He brushed a stray lock of her hair out of her face. "Never apologize for being you."
"How do you do that, babe?
Make me feel like I'm the only girl alive for you
I don't know what it is that makes me fall like this
First time in your arms I knew
The way you held me
I knew that this could be
What I've been waiting to find"
Mia wrapped her arms around his neck and snuggled into his chest. He hugged her tight, kissed the top of her head, and sighed contentedly.
"Darling, look at me
I've fallen like a fool for you
Darling, can't you see
I'd do anything you want me to
I tell myself I'm gettin in too deep
Then I fall a little farther
Every time you look at me"
She yawned, her exhaustion from the long day finally catching up to her. She snuggled closer ad shut her eyes.
"Every time you look at me"
They sat in the moonlight, sounds of the ocean and beach washing over them, until the soft sounds of Mia's even breathing echoed in his ears. She'd fallen asleep.
Sighing contentedly, he stood and began walking back to the ship. He'd send Smee to pick up.
A/n: I apologize for the shortness of this. I found that I loved it just the way it was.
The song in this chapter is Look at Me. Of course it's a Carrie song.
Thanks to all my readers, the few of you that there are. 3
Lyra Raine Sparrow