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Day 18: March 30, 2022

Alice

7:43 PDT

Los Angeles, California

I yawn as I pour hot water over my tea bag, blinking blearily out the kitchen window. Very slowly, my sleep patterns are being interrupted more and more. It's been two and a half weeks since the lockdown started, and there is still no end in sight.

It's getting harder and harder to maintain any sort of focus. The school has barely communicated to any of us—Jasper is the only one left with a regular job anymore, and to top it all off, we've discovered a host of new shows on Netflix.

It's absolutely killing my productivity.

Thank god Jasper is up every morning to check in with work. It forces me up out of bed too.

I set the kettle down, picking up my teacup and hugging it between my hands. It's a little cool this morning, and all I want to do is curl up back in bed, preferably with Jasper.

I glance through the kitchen to the dining room, where he is setting up his laptop, and I can't help smiling.

It's strange to get a sense of what our life might be like one day when we are currently in a lockdown, but that's what this feels like. This could be how our lives sort of go. He may not always work from home, but waking up to him every morning? Yeah, that feels right.

There isn't a single question in my mind; Jasper is it for me. He's the best person I've ever known. He's sweet and kind and thoughtful and wickedly smart and patient. He's funny and hardworking, and getting to spend every day with him is like a miracle. He's my future, and I couldn't be more grateful for that.

My heart swells with my thoughts, and I move out of the kitchen into the dining room. Jasper looks up at me as he starts up his laptop, giving me his wonderful, crooked smile that pulls at my heart. "Are you workin' in here today?" he asks, motioning to the table. I set my tea down and reach out to him, taking his face between my palms. I see the look of surprise on his face as I bend to kiss him. He reacts immediately, his lips meeting mine eagerly as his hands come up around me, stroking my back, pulling me closer to him. I shift, crawling over him so I'm straddling him in the weak dining room chair. His thighs are strong under me, and his wonderful scent, fresh from his soap and a faint dryness that always smells of the desert he grew up in, washes over me.

Jasper's fingers curl in my shirt around my back as he nips at my bottom lip, and I gasp, my mouth falling open. Our kiss breaks, and we both suck in deep breaths, our foreheads pressed together. "I love you," I whisper, my eyes meeting his. His smile is almost heartbreaking; it takes over his entire face, lights up his beautiful brown eyes.

"I love you more than the stars above, Mary Alice," he murmurs, his fingers stroking up and down my spine. I'm lost to his touch, to the gentle twang of his words, to the love in his eyes. We're too young to get married. There are things we both want in life, and though we are certain of each other, we're also not in a rush.

But I know, if Jasper were to ask me right now, I'd have only one answer. I'd marry him today if he asked.

My hands are still cupping his beautiful, precious face, my fingers scratching lightly over his smooth cheeks.

"You're my forever," I whisper, my throat tight with how much love I hold for him. His eyes soften even more, and he reaches up, his hands coming around to hold my face as tenderly as I'm holding his. He leans up, capturing my lips softly.

"You're my forever," he murmurs back.

Some sweetness remains in the house! These two really are just *swoon*

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