We had one day left until we go back to school. The week had gone by so fast I could barely separate each thing that happened. It had been the best kind of hectic where it all just keeps going and you feel like you are above everything. I didn't want it to end.
Fred, Angelina, George and I had gone to a small lake for the day. Though Angelina had refused to go into the water, I had practically run into the water, stripping off my jeans and jacket, but keeping my t-shirt on as I ran into the unseasonably warm water. The others just stared at me from the bank in bewilderment. "Warming charm!" The words sparked something in them, but George didn't want to leave Angelina alone so opted out of the swimming, while Fred stripped all but his boxers and came out to meet me in the water.
"Why are you out here?" he asked after arriving beside me.
"They can't hear what we say from here." I said, nodding to where George and Angelina had curled up together under a tree. "and if we move this way." I began swimming to my left, "they can't see us either." I smile at him while he just looks confused. After an embarrassingly long moment it clicked.
He swam over to me and wrapped his hands around my waist, pushing us further from their line of sight, waiting until he got to a part where he could stand with his head above the water to kiss me. The butterflies again, filling me from head to toe. His lips hot as they crashed against mine, despite all that had happened, the fear of being caught still played both of us like puppets, which made this moment so much more. I wrapped my legs around his hips and held him close to me, my heart thumping in my chest so loud that I could hear it.
He leant his head back, just like that; he hummed and pushed his forehead to mine. "We can't keep doing this." A pit falling in my stomach as I sunk back down into the water, "not that I don't want to keep doing what we're doing, I just." He paused as if searching for the words, "I'm worried that it's going to get too far and that you'll regret it." The worry in his voice stunned me, he was so concerned that I would regret being with him that it hurt.
"I am not going to do anything I will regret with you, I promise," the words falling into place in front of me. "I love you."
"You… love me?" he was waiting for a response but this time there were no words. "I love you too." The words spread through me, more than the butterflies, more than anything I had felt before, his arms envelope me, in a way completely differently to how it had been mere minutes ago. "I promise you that."
Then it was like gravity, our bodies drawn to each other, no thoughts, just us. We were trapped inside that moment and it was safe. Our lives tangling together into a knot we couldn't break, but that was okay. When we broke apart this time there wasn't a sadness that had been there before, we were going to be okay, there was plenty of time for more, it could wait.