I Promise You (Matt Wachter) Oneshot

FOR ASHLEY!!! :)

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It’s been too long.

Now that I was here, it was hard to know what to do. It used to come so naturally for me, for us. But now, it was as if we were two awkward teenagers unable to fully understand what we were experiencing and enjoy it. I rolled on my side and watched him stare up at the ceiling, the dim light of the bedside lamp created just enough light to see it reflecting off his eyes. His chest rose and fell gently causing the small mist of warm sweat to shine on his flesh.

“What are you thinking?” I asked.

He sighed, taking his time to answer the question as if he were reluctant to answer it truthfully.

“I was thinking . . .” he paused, his eyes never abandoning the ceiling. I let my eyes flicker there momentarily to see if I was missing out on something important up there, but instead I only saw a plain white ceiling and a rickety and might I add unsafe looking fan. “I was thinking about ways to make this last forever.”

“Matt,” I said gently placing my head on his chest “you know that’s impossible.”

“And why is that exactly? Why can’t this work out between us?”

“We’ve gone down different roads for so long;” I started “we’re not the same people we used to be.”

“How so” he asked moving enough so he could prop himself up on one elbow and look into my eyes “Ashley you’re the same girl I fell in love with then, I could definitely be in love with you now.”

I swallowed hard. I wanted this to work, there were circumstances that stood in the way last time but now? Part of me wanted to believe that we could pick up where we left off but the other part, the reasonable part, wasn’t so sure.

“Do you?”

Matt leaned in and kissed me. That was one of the things I loved so much about him, he had this way of telling me things without even opening his mouth (at least to speak).

“Do you think this was supposed to happen, us I mean? Like there was a reason we met up again?” I asked.

“I’d like to think so, whether it was like this or not I definitely think we’re supposed to be together, I always have.” He answered moving some hair away from my face.

“How do you figure that?”

Matt smiled and kissed me again.

“Because there’s no one else I’d ever consider spending the rest of my life with, I’ve always felt that way.”

“Always?” I whispered.

Matt nodded.