-Hope-
“You know if we do this, I will mark you,” Phoenix mentioned from behind me.
I looked over my shoulder, somewhat surprised to see him leaning against the doorframe in his walk-in closet. This morning, I found him watching over me again, sitting in a chair beside my bed. Then he had instructed me to pack my things. If we were really doing this, he said, then I was going to be in his room. He didn’t want to be apart from me even at night, and I had happily agreed. So, now I was putting away my clothes in his room.
“Okay,” I replied, and folded a pair of pants.
“Okay?”
I nodded, not even looking at him. I felt nervous, as I always did when he was around, but it was a good feeling. I just didn’t want him to see through me and think I was starting to change my mind, because I wasn’t
