Together
Cherish by The Association
THE PROFESSOR PARKEDhis sports car by the curb and stepped out, a picture of elegant perfection in his tweeds and dark aviator glasses shielding his leonine gaze.
With the sun in a particularly good mood on a Saturday afternoon, there were more people than usual on the streets, and all of the females who happened to walk past the professor weren't able to resist staring at him.
An all-grown-up, smoking-hot, fuck-me-now angel.
That was how all of them saw him.
An angel, who also happened to be in love.
This, too, was the public consensus, with the professor's austere expression only softening when a dark-haired girl come out of the hospital across the street. They watched him take his glasses off as the girl came running down the steps, they saw their eyes meet, and they knew. There was just no doubting it, with that look in his eyes.
That man was head over heels...and so was she.
Color had blossomed in her cheeks upon seeing her beau, and the moment the pedestrian lights turned green, it was as if she had grown wings, with the girl dashing and practically flying in her haste to be with the man waiting for her on the other side.
"Whoa."Once again, her sudden weight threatened his balance, but also just like before, Matthijs' proved too strong and too powerful, and soon Diana felt his arm going around her waist as he regained his footing.
"Hello."
Her smile was irresistible, and he found himself smiling down at her. "Hello."
So far, so good, Diana thought impishly, and so she raised her face for a kiss.
But her wiles didn't work this time, and she burst into laughter when the professor responded by rolling his pretty golden eyes at her.
"Too soon?"
His eyes bored through her. "What do you think?"
"Well, maybe this could help..."
The professor took the envelope Diana handed over and saw her confused surprise when he shoved it straight to his pocket.
"You're not going to read it?" After everything she had done for the past ten days, just to make sure that she could kiss and touch him without having him to worry he might hurt her—-
"I don't need to."