soon.

xc.

̶ ̶ xc. YOUNG LOVE, PART TWO.

with your father on our tail,
breathless but in love, 
i reached for your hand 
and held it out for the world to see that here we were,
uniting together to create what too many people call untouchable.
we shouted,
the stereo of your car
echoed more than just cliche lyrics.

the hill tucked the sun goodnight and you swore you saw more light in my eyes than there was in the sky. 
i believed you; i still do.

just like how i love you.
and my heart jumps at the sound of your name. 
and my hand reaches for you just like it did that summer day of twenty fifteen.

you made me realize that there is more to the word people tend to spit out like any other vocabulary in the dictionary. when those three words slip from your voice, it's ethereal, 
angelic, ungodly.

it's a language that i would
spend the rest of my life learning 
just to be able to whisper back

i love you too.