Chapter 2: Diet Mtn Dew
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"Do you think we'll be in love forever?
Do you think we'll be in love?"
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Heart-shaped sunglasses resting on her nose, bikini covering up her most important parts and the sun shining down on her already bronzed skin. The sun was causing her hair to lighten up with blonde streaks. The sun was shining on her glittery belly ring. She looked like an angel.
"You're no good for me, baby," I muttered to her. She turned toward me, looking at me over her sunglasses.
"I'm what?"
"Uh ... too good for me, baby!" I corrected. She smiled and shook her head. Smooth, Ron. Very smooth.
She smelled like coconut mixed with her favourite peach body lotion, and it was simply intoxicating to me. I loved her to no ends.
"Hey, Hermione?"
"Yes, Ronald?" When she said my name, it sounded as if the angels were singing it.
"Do you think we'll be in love forever?" I had to know. If there was no future without her, well, I was afraid I had no future at all.
"What is love, really?" She asked. "And how do we know we're in it? We have to experiment around, really, before we know what's real. I could say yes, and you would have these hopes and dreams dancing in your head of us, married, old, with children running around our house. But what if it never works out the way you'd like? You'd be disappointed and hurt. So, I can't say for sure if we'll be in love – or together – forever."
My face fell. I was sure of it. I just wanted reassurance that this was the real thing, not just some passing fling. She noticed my change, and she reached over and touched my leg,
"Ronald, I can assure you of this one thing though. Right now, in this moment, I love you. I love you beyond the stars in the next universe. I love you until Pluto is no longer a planet. I love you so big you would never be able to comprehend it. Right now, I love you. Tomorrow? Who knows? I am living for today, and today you're all I want."
She winked at me and picked up her bottle of drink, taking a sip of her Diet Mountain Dew.