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This is a very short follow up, also inspired by a prompt I found on Tumblr.
It's been three months since that night when he pretended to be her missing date. Three months since he met the woman he wanted to spend the rest of his life with.
You might say that three months wasn't very long, not enough time to know something as important as that, but sometimes when you love someone, you just know.
Miles hadn't been thrilled but he was supportive of their relationship. Even going as far as to back them up when they broke the news to her father and step-mother. The ten year age gap between her father and Maggie helped to ease them into the idea of their daughter and Bass, as did the fifteen year difference between Miles and his long time girlfriend Nora.
It was great to have the support of her family, but they both knew; from the very first night; that it didn't really matter. They were going to be together no matter what others thought about it. And they were. They spent most of their free time together, and Bass stayed over at her place most nights.
And some night, like tonight, when he couldn't sleep Bass would lay beside her and listen to her soft breathing and wonder how he had gotten so lucky.
Right now he was laying on his side, looking at Charlie as she laid stretched out beside him on her stomach. Her hair fanned out along her shoulders and her pillow. One arm tucked up under her pillow and the other hanging off the side of the bed.
He smiled softly as he reached over and lightly ran his fingertips over the freckles on her exposed back. He scooted closer, adjusting his head on his own pillow, and began to use his fingertip to gently trace the words that he's been dying to say, but worried she wasn't ready to hear.
I love you
Again and again he traced the eight letters across her skin, only stopping when she shifted as he hit a point on her lower back that he knows is particularly ticklish.
He reached up and sifted his finger through her hair where it lay on her pillow before pulling the blanket higher, covering more of himself as well as Charlies naked back, before settling in to sleep.
He rolled onto his back and tucked his hand behind his head and closed his eyes. He was just starting to drift to sleep when he felt the bed shift as Charlie rolled over and wrapped her arm around him before settling her head on his shoulder, he face tilted up towards his.
"I love you too." she said before reaching up and kissing the spot behind his ear that he liked.
Keeping his eyes closed, Bass smiled as he wrapped his arm around her and pulled her closer, and then ; together and happy; they drifted off to sleep.
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