LUKE: Basking in the Glow

I felt the blood rush through my veins, from my head to my heart up to the very tip of my toes as I looked at Mace giving me her most awaited “yes”, her face all-smiles.

I held her hand tightly. “You mean it?” I said, still unable to believe what was happening. “No taking it back?”

She nodded and her brown eyes sparkled as she looked back at me. “I mean it,” she said her voice a little breathless. “No taking back.”

I swallowed hard. “So, we’re really boyfriend and girlfriend now?”

“Yes,” came her answer with an expression on her face that looked the same as when she had laughed inside the pick-up truck when we pretended to be lovers and held hands for the first time.