He smiled as soon as he saw me. I shouldn’t have, but I smiled back. In a few short steps, he was by my side. His arms wrapped around my body and held me like he had a thousand times before. There were no words between us. There never were. We didn’t need words. We were connected in a way that made speaking unnecessary.
His hands slipped down to mine and he began leading me out of the nothingness where we always met and into a garden so luscious and flower-filled that the air was thick with their syrupy scent. In the center of the plants there was a blanket lying on the velvet grass. We laid down and my head immediately fell to his chest. His heartbeat matched mine exactly, slow at first, then speeding up as he began trailing, first his fingers, then his lips down my neck.