We stayed at Benny'z until it closed and then I drove the sleepy Julian to another spot where we shared precious memories.

~x~

We were walking hand in hand at the park where we saw each other again after my first year of college. The snow crunched underneath our feet, the water was motionless and there was no one else there, just us.

"Remember this place?" I asked as I placed a kiss on---what I wanted to be his cheek but ended up being his ear.

"How could I forget?" He said as he turned to me.

We stood face to face and as he got closer to my face, I began to close my eyes for his warms lips to be pressed up against mine so that the cold could no longer harm me. Instead, he licked my face.

I immediately opened my eyes and gave him a suppressed growl. He ripped his hand out of my grip and started running. He knew I hated when he done that.

I chased after him and once he finally turned to see me gaining on him, he screamed.

"Lucas, stay away! Leave me alone! I'm sorry!"

"Yeah, sorry isn't going to cut it!"

It did cut it but I didn't want it to because I enjoyed feeling like time never put so much distance between our relationship. In just a few hours, we closed that gap between us and went back in time to when we were just...us.

I wanted to live in the moment. The there and now and bask in the gift the universe gave me.

I would've been crazy if I thought that fate, that the universe, did not have a hand in uniting us. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity and I took it.

I finally caught up to Julian and grabbed him from the back to spin him around. We laughed and screamed at the top of our lungs until I finally put him down.

I tried to be cute and pull him into a kiss but I slipped and fell. He laughed but then I jumped at him and he came falling too. We were both painfully laughing.

We couldn't stop either. The more we tried to stop the harder it was to quit. There was not even a point of trying to get up anymore so we just lied there. I couldn't feel the cold from the snow. Once the laughing stopped, we just lied in silence.

I started to blow my breath so that I could pretend that I was smoking some hefty cigarette like I was a kid. I looked over at Julian who was doing the same thing. I extended my arm and gently slapped his stomach that was guarded by his thick coat.

"Stop copying me," I said.

"I wasn't even-" he chuckled, "okay, maybe I was."

I chuckled and then he chuckled again and then we started laughing. "I miss this. I miss us."

"Me too," he said as he started to make a snow angel.

I did the same until I got tired. I sighed and stared up at the stars that were kind of hard to look at. Honestly, the snow just looked like falling stars. "The stars are finally aligning," I said.

Julian started coughing and it startled me.

"Maybe we should get up now," I said.

"Good idea."

I got up first just so I could help him up so that I could receive a thank you and then, when he wasn't expecting it---or maybe he was---I would place my lips gently on his so that our bodies could heat up once more.

I wrapped my arms around his waist and pulled him deeper into the kiss. When we broke apart, he looked me in my eyes and said, "I love you, Lucas."

That was the happiest I've been since the last time that I saw him. I smiled and placed a small kiss on his nose. "I love you too, Julie. I never stopped loving you and I promise that I will love you until the end of time because what I gave you was something that I could only give one person. What I gave you determines whether I live or die. What I gave you, is something that binds my soul to yours forever so that we may continue this in another life."

"And what is that?" He asked as he stared deeply into my eyes.

"What I gave you...was my heart, Jules."

He smiled and said, "And I gave you mine. It wasn't until I saw you again when I finally remembered what it felt like to have a life worth living for."

And so we shared yet another kiss.