19

"Maybe. But like I said in Blanca's office, there are only a few things worth fighting for and love surpasses them all"

"You are a pervert with substance," I scoff at him.

"No, I'm a desperate romantic"

And instead of continuing to argue about it, we kissed instead.

Night falls and the world around us changes. He and I sat shoulder to shoulder on a fallen log, watching in comfortable silence as the last rays of the setting sun bled into the slowly darkening sky, turning it into brilliant shades of burnt pinks and oranges with just a hint of purple. here and there. To say that it is beautiful is an understatement, yet no other word fits so perfectly.

My head instinctively falls against his shoulder and his head rests softly on mine. When a gust of cold wind blows against the grassy mound we sit on, the temperature drops, making me shiver and fully aware of how we are still in the middle of winter. Travis's hand moves quickly to my arm and rubs it up