Chapter 12: Those brief moments with you
'Catch!'
Beyond caught the jam jar on time and looked shocked at Dani. 'Don't throw with my jam, please! What if I didn't caught it? It would be crashed on the floor, that is jam murder!'
Dani laughed, but stopped when she saw Beyond was serious. She rolled her eyes. 'I was pretty sure you would catch it and if you didn't I could've buy you a new one anyway.'
He muttered something inaudible and began to scoop the strawberry jam out of the jar with his fingers. Dani stared with a grin at him as he began to scoop the sweet jam into his mouth. She saw him do this for a few months now. At first she thought it was weird maybe even scary. But now all she could do is smile when she saw him enjoying the sweet substance. Suddenly an idea popped into her head. Dani sat next to Beyond on the couch and before he knew what her plan was she scooped a bit jam out the jar with her index finger. His mouth fell open in surprise when she ate his jam.
'That…that's my jam,' he stammered.
Dani giggled at his expression and scooped again some jam with her finger. 'It's time you learn to share.'
'I'm already sharing my appartment with you! Why do I need to share my jam with you too?'
She nodded. 'That's true, and if you really don't like me stealing some of your jam why don't you push me away or take the jar out of my reach?'
He fell silent at her question. Beyond knew she had a point. If he wanted her to stop stealing his jam he could push her of the couch with ease or something like that.
He sighed and held the jam jar between them so both could reach the jam. 'Fine, take some jam.'
'Thank you! That's really sweet of you!' She gave him a quick peck on his cheek.
Beyond turned almost as red as the strawberry jam and he avoided eye contact. He felt the corners of his mouth going up and before he knew it he was smiling. Sharing his strawberry jam with Dani wasn't actually that bad…
The season changed and the warm summer became a rainy autumn. The leaves of the trees were getting the warm colors of red, yellow and orange and left a colorfull sight on the streets. That day Beyond had agreed with Dani's pleading to go outside. It was a while ago since L had seen them so the chance to get caught was smaller. The rain fell from the sky in big raindrops. That's why Dani and himself were walking now in an large inside shopping centre. He would never confess it out loud, but it was nice to be under the people again. Not that he ever got bored with Dani around.
'Look! Can we do that?' Dani said excited.
Without waiting for an answer she grabbed his arm and pulled him with her to a photo booth.
'Dani, I'm not sure if it's safe to make photo's of us. What if someone finds it and L gets to see the picture?'
Dani stopped pulling him into the photo boot and pouted. Her big brown eyes practically begged him to make a picture with her. 'Not even one picture?'
Beyond stared silently at her.
'Please?' she said and looked back at him with those puppy eyes.
He sighed defeated. 'Alright, one picture.'
After his words had just left his mouth he was pulled into the photo booth.
'Okay, how are we gonna stand for the photo?' Dani asked. She hadn't thought about that yet.
Beyond didn't hesitate and threw his arm around her shoulder and held her. 'Good enough?'
Dani giggled nervously. 'Yes.' She smiled when she felt the warmth of his body close to her. His arms safely around her. 'This should be good enough.'
After the photo was made and Dani took it out of the machine she smiled at the cute picture. She knew it wasn't safe to keep photo's of Beyond and herself, but she just had to have a tangible memory of her time with Beyond.
After they spent the whole day at the shopping centre they were back at the appartement. Beyond had thrown himself on his bed. Tired of the whole day walking. He heard Dani move and a sound of a pen clicking followed. He lifted his head to look what she was doing and saw her writing something on the back of the picture that they made that day.
'What are you doing?' he asked while he stood up and walked over to her.
'I'm writing our names,' she answered and she showed him the names Beyond and Dani on the back of the picture.
'You know that's not gonna help with our safety, right? If you lose it and somebody finds it that person will not only know our faces but our names too.'
Dani thought about that for a moment and offered the picture to him. 'You keep it then. If you're afraid I will lose it you can keep the picture safe.'
Beyond took the picture and looked at the happy faces on it. 'Thanks, I will.'
He put the photo in the pocket of his jeans and felt something else in it. It was the necklace he kept with him for all those years. The necklace with the blood red teardrop charm that was of his mother. Finally he thought of a good purpose for the necklace.
'I've got something for you to keep as well.'
Dani's eyes widened when she saw the beautiful necklace he pulled out of his pocket.
'It's the most precious possession I have,' he said while pulling her hair out of her neck and fastened the necklace around her neck. 'I gave it as a present for my mother when I was little, but I think it suits you just as well.'
Dani was speechless and stared at the necklace that lay around her neck now.
'Dani?' said Beyond concerned. 'Are you ok-'
He was stopped mid-sentence as Dani pressed her lips on his. His eyes wide with surprise. He didn't saw that coming. When he recovered from the shock he slowly closed his eyes as well and kissed her back. The kiss started very sweetly, but as the passion grew the kiss deepened. Beyond threw his arms around her to pull her closer to him. He felt Dani's hands going through his messy black hair and he groaned lowly. After what felt like ages they pulled apart. Still pressed together they tried to catch their breath.
Dani gave him a quick kiss on his nose. 'Thank you for the necklace. It means a lot to me.'
Beyond looked at her slightly flushed face. 'If it means I get this by giving you a necklace I have to give you some more.'
She chuckled and pushed his head to hers to kiss him again.
Beyond woke early that morning and took his time to look at the lovely girl next to him. Dani was still asleep. Of course she didn't have to sleep on the couch anymore. It got colder outside as the autumn slowly changed in winter. The time flew by nowadays and his felt the pain in his heart growing everyday. When he met Dani he would never have expected that he would fall in love with her. But he did though they never had said 'I love you'. Beyond stared sadly at the red numbers above her head. They started to come close to the zero. The year she had when he had met her was almost gone. Still he had hope. Maybe he could stop her death. He would not lose someone else he loved to the red numbers. Beyond kissed Dani's forehead soflty and he heard her murmur something in her sleep. No, he would not lose someone else. Not this time.
I have tried to draw the photo booth picture of Beyond and Dani. It's not exactly like I wanted, but I just have to live with the fact that I'm not that good at drawing :P
For those who wants to look at it can go to my deviantart account (you can find the link on my profile).
I hope you all enjoy the story! Please review if you did :)
