Drabble #10: After All
"After all the stops and starts, we keep coming back to these two hearts" – Cher & Peter Cetera
He hadn't been able to get her out of his mind. No matter what he'd done, no matter where he'd gone, it had seemed that she'd taken up residence in some corner of his mind, giving him that smile that made his knees weak, sweeping aside the ebony locks he'd longed to run his hands through.
He'd been determined to stay away, to hold firm to his course and not to derivative from the goal that he'd made for himself years ago.
She wouldn't listen.
And now that she was in his arms, he whispered against her lips, "Thank you."