Lily went up to her room and shut the door behind her. Oliver was standing by the window looking out at the woods. He turned to Lily with the same sad look in his eye.
"Oliver, I'm sorry about-"
"You have nothing to apologize for sweetheart. If anyone is apologizing it's me." He walked toward Lily and put his arms around her bringing her close. "If I had never left you the way I did you wouldn't have wasted your time taking care of a dog."
Lily cringed at how Oliver called Jackson a dog but she didn't want to hurt him more by defending Jackson. "You don't have to hate yourself for leaving, I know it was because you were trying to protect me. I'm just glad your back here...with me."
"I'm always going to be here with you, until the end of time."
Lily looked away from Oliver's eyes embarrassed about what she was going to say next. "Um, I have to tell you something."
"What?"
"When you were gone I started to...well I started to hear voices...your voice actually."
"Voices?"
Lily nodded with her glowing red cheeks. "Only when I was about to do something stupid."
"So that explains you jumping..."
"Yeah..."
Out of nowhere Oliver began to laugh. "Lily, some of the things you do."
Lily began to laugh too. "Well I had to do something to hear your voice, even if it meant jumping from a cliff into the raging ocean during a storm with an insane vampire who was out to kill me floating a few feet away."
Oliver let out a growl. "What?" Oliver sat down on Lily's bed to keep from going crazy.
"Maya is still out there." Lily curled up next to Oliver on her bed.
"We're going to find her Lily, I promise you that."
"We? Does this mean you're all moving back?" Lily smiled a big hopeful smile.
Oliver nodded and grinned "I'm not ever leaving you again Lily, I can also promise you that."
"Good to know, that way I don't have to get Miley to kick your butt."
Oliver laughed then kissed the top of Lily's head making his way down to her lips.
Her heart began to race and she could feel it all the way to her toes. This was where she was meant to be, right there right then with Oliver kissing him as if it was there last kiss but she knew it wouldn't be, she knew he would be there because he did want her and he did love her and that was all Lily needed.
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Thunder
