It could've seemed that they were an eighty year old couple dancing like they had practised every Friday night for the past sixty years. They stood in the middle of Rick's lounge room in each other's arms slowly moving from side to side and leisurely making their way to one side of the room then back to the other.
A song was playing through the stereo that Kate didn't know the name of. It was somehow stuck on repeat but Kate didn't mind because it was the perfect song for this flawless moment.
The only words she could remember and sung softly when they came by time after time were:
"At my most beautiful I've found a way to make you
I count your eyelashes secretly.
With every one, whisper I love you.
I let you sleep.
I know you're closed eye watching me,
Listening.
I thought I saw a smile.
I've found a way
A way to make you smile."
Rick didn't sing a word of the notes that flew by every time the song replayed itself. He loved Kate's voice. Every time the song played through he waited for the verse where she knew the words and would sing along in the softest way. She sung so softly that his ears wouldn't have picked it up if he wasn't listening. He absorbed her words and let them release into his body and make his heart flutter. He had fallen for this girl. It was the type of fall where he wasn't squashed onto the concrete below, but he was cushioned by a soft bed of feather like clouds.
The song was over. It had paused minutes ago but they didn't care. They still stood there slowly moving around the room, never losing touch with each other. Their music wasn't one which had a beat, it was only the simple words that developed from Kate and flowed around the room. Sometimes Rick joined in on the words which created a kind of harmony in the loft. The deep, uneasy voice of Rick collided with Kate's soft and delicate one but they couldn't care. They just continued singing those words and dancing around like there was no tomorrow. For all they knew the sun wouldn't rise in the morning and this was the last moment that they'd spend together. If so, it was the perfect moment. It was a moment of pure love and affection. It was a capsule of time that would never be taken away in either of their lives, a moment which they'd think of in their last moments of breath.
All they could say was:
"At my most beautiful I've found a way to make you
I count your eyelashes secretly.
With every one, whisper I love you.
I let you sleep.
I know you're closed eye watching me,
Listening.
I thought I saw a smile.
I've found a way
A way to make you smile. Because darlin' I love you."
So this is actually one of my favourite chapters. I know it's incredibly corny but who cares haha! Have a good day guys:)