ways to say i love you ► @resurrectedher sent - “i can’t have you gone. i need you here.” @ miguel
Papers are spread out on the table in front of them, red underlines and circles covering different newspaper articles and photocopied pages of books, with Miguel pouring over them. Trying to find the missing link, trying to piece the puzzle together. His brow furrows together, so deep in his concentration that he doesn’t notice when she seats herself across from him. Then she speaks, and his attention is on her almost immediately. “What are you talking about?” Miguel studies her, searches for meaning behind her words in the lines of her face. He knows her better than she knows herself, he likes to think -- actively, he ignores that feeling that prickles at the back of his neck. One that taunts him, that she isn’t who he thinks she is. Instead, he reaches his hand out across the table and covers her own. His thumb runs over the back of her hand, a sweet smile across his face. “I love you. I’m not going anywhere, I promise.” A pause, he knows for people like them, that will always be a lie. Miguel tilts his head to one side, trying to make her smile with a goofy scrunch of his face. “At least, not right now.”