Page 51 of Forever and Ever

I empty you

you… empty me

I’d love to see what we can be

Search your heart for the piece of me

I’d love to bring us back to life

what’s dead inside, what’s dead inside

But

Rainbows don’t reach pots of gold

And darkness is where stories are told

I’ll sing for you, a lullaby

But you won’t find your peace tonight

Take it all

They said they’d take it all away

Breathe it out

Even if your life starts to fade

Swim away with you

I’d love to… swim away

But in the breath that fades

I bury you

you… bury me

I bury you

you… bury me”

I breathe the final note out and realize my chest has been fluttering the entire time.

“I’m still ironing out the rest,” I say, slapping my notebook shut and pulling my hair off my face. “But that’s where I’m at.”

Noah opens his eyes but doesn’t lift his head as he tips his face to look at me. There’s that same unreadable expression in his eyes from the morning at Adrian’s recording studio, and it slices straight through my skin. For a man who’s usually so easy to read, I can’t figure out what he’s hiding in that look.

“That was beautiful,” Noah says.

He sits up and leans his elbows forward on his thighs, dipping his chin. When he turns to look at me again, he’s smiling.

“That was…” He tucks his hair behind his ears and sits back again. “I loved it.”

“Thanks, Noah.” I feel my cheeks heating.

Why am I so nervous all of a sudden?

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