[Jacques]

I see him trying to breathe, avoiding my furious glance with every bit of willpower he’s got. Lucky me, he didn’t expect me to fight back, so I could knock him breathless even though he’s way stronger than me.

-I can’t stand it anymore, I explode. If you didn’t want me in your stupid life, if you really wanted to learn how to fly with your own damn wings, why do you keep on bothering to harass me?

He can’t even look at me in my goddam eyes. I see his hesitation as the corner of his mouth twitches, as his puppy ocean eyes slowly rise to mine. Then, the answer comes and takes me by surprise:

- Because I’ve tried, but I can’t imagine living in a world in which you aren’t.

Now I see his saddened deep blue eyes, his misery and his pain, and for a moment I feel like we’re just two teenage boys who just got out of our usual fight. His hands start shaking and I can’t help reaching his with mine. I grab his fingers, slowly going up to his palm, and I start to feel all the regrets that piled up since we started college. How we missed each other’s presence, how everything seemed so damned wrong every second of my life he wasn’t a part of. Every. Single. Thing. that happened between us, just like that, was forgotten at the moment he let me in.

I pull his hand on my cheek, smiling and crying at the same time. I still don’t know how he feels towards me, heck I can’t even tell what I feel right now. I’m submerged in this ocean of sentiments and he’s all that keeps me from falling deep in. All I know is that I want to freeze this moment in time, never letting go of his trembling hands. For a brief moment, we’re the only boys in the whole world, crying our heart out, hugging in the middle of the corridor. Some people pass by us, but I don’t care what anyone think. I finally got what I’ve always wanted. But suddenly he pushes me back and looks around:

-What if somebody sees us?