|Xavier's POV|
She was about to kiss me.
She had wanted to kiss me.
Every instinct of hers was yelling at her to do saw.
I saw the battle with my own eyes before her heart lost and her mind won the debate.
I know it would still be a little while longer before I would be able to taste her lips with my own, before I would be able to see for myself if she truly feels the same fire for me that I feel for her, before I would be able to call her mine.
But the wait will be worth it.
I know as much.
After that car ride, she hadn't left my hand even once and when we were in the diner— the same place I used to come to as a child when everything was happy and good in my life (even though I didn't tell her about that)— I watched her talk to me with a new freedom, a new carefreeness tha
