I Know

Song: Tonight feat Janelle Monae

Iggy

The morning was spread out before us. Rougue rays of sunlight splayed out between my eyes and into the blind irises. Ella's warm hand pressed against mine. It didn't matter where we were going, or why -

I was with her.

We could forget the nights when we were so terribly afraid they we'd mess up and and up destroying the world. But we did it. We saved the world.

Not alone, of course.

Fortunately, I had Ella to come back to. Weary and torn from battle, I could lose myself in her lips. Lose myself in her. For a wingless girl, she would never cease to amaze me. How did she manage to drive me crazy with love and also be my worst enemy at the same time?

I guess that you can call that love.

It is with that last statement that, standing on top of the Empire State Building as dawn broke, wind caressing our cheeks, that I came to a conclusion. I loved this girl, this Ella. My best friend's sister. Many people think that Fang was my best friend. Maybe at one time, but not now. He wasn't there for me when Max broke down. I smiled. Max. How astonished Fang would be if he saw how much stronger she was without him. He was stupid to lose her. Perhaps he was my best friend at one time.

Not now.

Now...where was I? Ah, yes. The most beautiful girl in the world. My Ella. Somehow, whenever I was with her, all my mistakes vanished. She made me forget. And before you carry this into unreasonable, perverted proportions...

No. Not that. Not until...

I decided. I bent one one knee and pulled from my jeans a ring. One pair of wings wrapping around it, the inscription on the inside reading,

Always you, Ella

From The Pyromaniac Blind Mutant Freak who loves you: Iggy.

Tears rose in Ella's golden brown eyes. She shook her head yes. Relief flooded my mind and heart. Ella...mine? Her and me?

I never would have believed. Me and Nudge, maybe. There was a time.

I cringed. That time was most certainly not now. I pulled my wings out and surrounded Ella in their white feathers. She giggled, and kissed me on the nose, followed by other kisses. Reluctantly, I stopped her.

"You can kiss me now." she said. I smiled. I smiled a smile that meant everything to me, unimaginable happiness. Like bliss incarnated. Oh, God. Do I get to feel this every day for the rest of my life?

Win.

But with Ella, things were different. For a moment before kissing Ella, I felt it...I felt sight again. I spoke to her, an answer to her statement.

"I know."