Into The Drink

For someone who made his heart feel swollen she sure was sitting far away. Mike barely resisted the urge to move closer to her, to touch her. Instead he sat and listened to what she was saying.

"I hope that she'll be all right staying there." Mike frowned. He had only met Clara briefly but he liked her instantly and any friend of Ora's was a friend of his. Likewise her enemies.

Her confession about not seeing him again shocked Mike. What if she had changed her mind and had just disappeared into the night? He definitely didn't like that thought. "I'm glad you didn't run." He whispered softly.

He patted the space beside him hesitantly, as if his hand was betraying his mind. "I'd discovered some other girl?" He was puzzled for a moment, then when he realized that she was concerned. "I don't know what i can tell you that expresses how wrong you are. You are very, very wrong."

Her sudden confession made him break out in a wide grin and he shifted towards her and lited her chin in his hands, planting a slow kiss on her lips instead of answering.

He chuckled, pulling her into him so that his chin rseted on her head. "What are we going to do Ora? We read each other like closed books." It was a joke but a strained one. This was not going to be an easy relationship. But he was willing to work with it, so long as she was.

"Do I still need to be careful? I don't want any hurt feelings or another episode when I don't get to see you for days and days." He absently stroked her hair, fingers trailing down to lightly touch her barcde.

He sighed contentedly, knowing that if he died now he would die happy. It seemed like a spell that would break if he did or said the wrong thing, but this was a pretty weird relationship anyway. He played with her hair, one hand resting on her shoulder.

"You make me happy. But I guess I'm going to have to share you with Clara?" He didn't want to share, it felt like it would be two kids and one cookie. Ora was that cookie. He shook his head with a grin and rested his gaze on her face. "I'll be careful." He murmered, his heart swelling when she called herself his girlfriend. It would take him a while to figure out that this was not a dream, but the real thing. She made him so crazy. One minute he wanted to yell her name from the rooftops and the next he wanted to just stay in his room with her forever, not sharing with a soul.

"That's... good? Bad? I don't know." He grinned, unsure of what things could possibly mean if she hid here. He wasn't going to lie, he loved that she was here. Things just seemed so different now, and for good reasons.

"Do you think you should be worried?" A small laugh escaped his lips when she moved towards him. This was so unreal! He had never in a million years thought that things would be this way. But he knew that sooner or later they'd have to register her, and she'd move into a room that was not his, and was in the girls dorms. He would feel a little uneasy sneaking into her room at night. Almost like he was intruding.