The fair and pure joy

Lucas 

We said I love you and I am still hiding the truth from him. I hate that I haven't told him the truth. I hate that I am terrified that he will hate me once he finds out that I am the boy from his past.

"This is delicious," he mumbles as he takes another bite of the chicken. I smile as I watch him eat.

Last night and this morning was perfect. I wanted to take him out to eat for dinner but he didn't want to get out of the room. He didn't want to break the spell we were in.

"I can see that," I reply as he devours the chicken.

"Do we have to go back to being leaders, can't we just run away and never look back?"

He is messing around and I like this side of Gabriel, I like the carefree nonchalant Gabriel.

This is everything to me.

"I mean, we could but then what about our lives and the people we love?" I ask.