" my love, i want you. i've wanted you since the first moment i saw you. you are the most beautiful thing i have ever seen."
( unprompted / always accepting !! )
if it were possible for her heart to explode with love, it would pop like a party favour and spill the confetti of her adoration for hikaru all over the floor. she didn't think it was possible to love someone so much, but every day he proves that yes, you can love someone more each and every day that you are with them. just when she thinks he can't possibly make her fall any harder, he says something so sweet and earnest and honest like this and she feels herself slipping, falling, all but running into his open arms — and his open heart.
the moment is so ridiculously sentimental in its simplicity. corinne, hair a little messy after work, the flush from a warm spring afternoon making her skin dewy and ethereal. she'd joked about feeling gross. like a goblin. and then he'd gone and said something like that and, oh, how can she think it as anything but truth. she is beautiful in his eyes. corinne can't remember the last time someone made her feel so seen and wanted.
corinne is halfway across the room, throwing her bag aside and kicking her shoes off, before sliding into his arms, fists in his shirt as she gives him a kiss. then two. then three. his cheek, his nose, his mouth. each punctuated by the breathy admission of ❝ je t'aime. je t'aime. je t'aime. ❞
if he wants her, he has her. always.