Chapter Twenty-seven: KISSING COUPLE

Lesley's POV

'You by the light

Is the greatest find

In the world full wrong

You're the thing that's right

Finally made it

Through the lonely

To the other side'

From the loud sound system, the song could hear in all corners of ML Academy.

'You said it again

My heart's in motion

Every word feels like a shooting star'

Everyone here at the ball feels light. Everything looks magical.

'I'm at the edge of my emotions

Watching the shadows burning in the dark'

There's a lot of pairs dancing in the floor but I felt like they weren't existing.

'And I'm in love

And I'm terrified

For the first time

In the last time

In my only life'

Gusion and I wanted to savor this moment as if we both owned this world. We just simply swaying with the music. Eyes closed. My two hands were on his shoulder blades. One side of my face leaning on his chest. Gusion's hands clasping at the back of my hips. His face on my hair, murmuring sweet nothings.

"Babe.."

"Hmm?"

"Babe.."

"Why?" I asked almost a whisper, without even looking at him.

"The song has ended."

"Huh?" That's then I saw, we're the only pair left in the dance floor. And we weren't really dancing. We were just standing in the middle hugging each other. I laughed heartily. "Sorry."

He smiled. "We were carried away."

He held my hand and we were about to walk away when everything went black. All lights turned off. Jeez. Blackout?

Everyone gasped with shock and fear.

I held Gusion's hand tighter. "Don't leave me." I'm not afraid in the dark. But there's a lot of people here. We might separate through the huge flow of men. And through this darkness, I wanted to feel his warmth.

He pulled me closer to him. "I won't. I promise."

I hugged him back. "Thank you."

I don't know if it's the darkness or the happiness we both feel, but we ended kissing each other.. there. An ardent kiss. Expressing what we felt. Showing how we missed each other. We only parted when a circular ray of light focused on us.

"What the hell." Gusion muttered.

I whispered. "I know. Heck, we're in spotlight."

This is embarrassing. Someone spoke from somewhere. "Ladies and gentlemen, our Kissing Couple of the Night, Miss Lesley Vance and Gusion Paxley!"

The crowed cheered for us. Jeez! This is getting more humiliating. Obviously the facilitators planned the lights off to find the kissing couple. And unluckily, we were that. Shucks. I could feel my cheeks heating up. I leaned again my face to Gusion's chest to cover my embarassment. "I wanna die."

Gusion just laughed.

********