Hot summer nights, mid July
When you and I were forever wild
The crazy days, city lights
The way you'd play with me like a child
Lily stood on the porch, hands on the railing, leaning back, letting the breeze blow through her hair and lift her spirits to the sky like the autumn leaves. James leaned against the railing beside her, his gaze fixated on her. The smattering of freckles across her nose. Her fiery hair, glowing a darker shade of red as the sun went down and the city lights turned on one by one, like fireflies scattered across the country.
"James," she said all of a sudden, turning to look at him, concern in her eyes. "Why do you love me?"
James blinked, taken aback by the question. Why wouldn't he?
"You're beautiful," he said, after a brief pause. "Everything about you is exactly how it should be. You're not perfect and that is why I love you. I can be me and you can be you and we're happy."
The corners of Lily's mouth curved upward, just a little. "Ok, but what about when I'm old and wrinkly and can't really walk anymore and whinge about it all the time. What about then?"
James took a long moment to think. He caught of strand of her fiery hair blowing in the wind, watched in awe as the last rays of the dying sun caught it and turned it to flames. He tried to imagine it white as snow.
"When you're old and wrinkly, I'll love you even more, because I will have had years to get to know every little thing about you and as every day passes I'll realize more and more that you are the best thing to have ever happened to me."
A single tear traced down Lily's cheek and she wiped it away hurriedly, hitting James playfully on the arm.
"You're so cheesy, you know that?"
Will you still love me
When I'm no longer young and beautiful?
Song is 'Young and Beautiful' by Lana Del Rey. Review pleaseeee xxx