You Don't Know You The Way I Do- A Team Starkid Fanfiction

Chapter 16

He walked to me slowly, picked my chin up gingerly. I refused to make eye contact with him. "Eli... look at me." I focused on his hairline. "You're looking at me, but look at me." I forced myself to meet his eyes. For the first time, there was no ocean behind him. It was a frozen over lake.

"Way too low," I said lowly, my voice quivering. He nodded, tears forming in him eyes as well. "You don't love me anymore, do you?" I asked hollowly.

"I will always love you," he said, attempting to wipe the tears off my cheeks. I jerked my head, so he wouldn't touch me.

"So you're breaking up with me," I said.

"Never."

My lip quivered, and I allowed myself to break in his arms. I didn't care we fought, I didn't care what he said, I just wanted to be comforted. I felt him lowering us down to the floor, his arms still protecting me. I shook, snot mixing with my tears, my heart literally breaking. 

He took my face gingerly with his hands, placing his forehead on mine. "I love you more than anything in the world, Elizabeth Grace Kanesne. You are literally my world. We are two puzzle pieces that finally united. Just, sometimes, people don't like puzzles. And they want to tear them apart. But sooner or later, that one little kid will make the puzzle complete again, and never dismember it."

I smiled slightly, wiping the tears away. "That was deep man." He chuckled, kissing my tenderly, trying to heal the wounds in my chest. I pulled away. "We had to get that fight over with sometime or another," I whispered. 

"Yeah... I'm just a jealous, pretentious, clingy, temperamental boyfriend," he said.

"And I'm a moody, attention-seeking, lying fool in love," I whispered back.

"But you're perfect," he breathed.

"Perfection doesn't exist. But there is such thing as being perfectly imperfect," I said. Joe jerked his head back, giving me a shocked smile.

"That was deep. Deeply golden."

"It's those silly fish," I said. Joe seemed to hesitate for a moment. Then, he crashed his lips against mine with such passion, only one message was conveyed. I love you.

-oOo-

I sat on the ground with Joe. We didn't care how uncomfortable my floor was, or how much we needed a blanket. Just cuddling with each other, sending our nonverbal apologies.

His fingers traced up and down my arm on his chest. "Hey Eli," he said softly, "what was that secret you wanted me to tell you?"

I sat up, leaning against my couch, pulling my legs in my chest. "It seems silly now that I was worrying about it now. But... Denise told me, last week, to be careful around you. And you and Dylan keep talking about revenge. I was just wondering..."

Joe sat up and took a deep breath. "Just let the record show I used to be the biggest douche in the entire world."

"Noted."

He smiled. "Well, as you know, I dated Denise a while back. But before that, it was Dylan who was with her. And she wasn't happy with him. And I could tell... so one day, we just kissed.... and this whole thing spun out... and Dyl found out, he was really hurt... then just to appease him I dumped Denise." He ran his hands in his hair. "It's one of my biggest regrets. Those two would've broken up sometime, and same with her and I. I just wish it could've been more gracious."

"Dude, it's a thing of the past. Unless, you're gonna cheat on me now. Which is not okay. But, if you say you regret it, and you changed, it's nothing."

"You are... the most amazing girlfriend in the entire world," he said, leaning in for a kiss. I stopped him an inch from my lips.

"I could say the same, muscle man." He smiled as he allowed me to straddle his waist, kissing him passionately. I felt his hand roam up my back, pulling my shirt up with them. A sinking feeling swooped over me as I remembered one important fact before we went any further.

"Ah, Joe?" I asked awkwardly.

"Hmm?" he moaned, trying to pull my shirt up.

"I'm kinda... bleeding..."

"Where, your finger?" God, why did guys have to be so clueless?

I broke apart, looking from Joe down to my crotch and back up. It took a couple seconds before he realized. "Oh..."

"Yeah..."

"Well... maybe some other time..."

"Oh yeah, definitely."

"I'll book it on my calendar."

"Sounds like a plan, man." The look on Joe's face was so priceless, I couldn't help snorting, which got him laughing, and resulted in straight laughter for about ten minutes.

Maybe coming clean wasn't the most enjoyable thing in the entire world. But, once it hurts, it can only heal. And Joe and mine's relationship was at its strongest point it's ever been.

But soon enough, it a couple months, it would all come crashing down in flames.

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One spicy helluva chapter! I love when you guys make predictions of what's to come, so predict away!

Only one more chapter left in this POV. And this time, I don't think I'll do anything to hurt your guys's feels

I just don't know if I can say that for the other endings. *DUN DUN DUN*

~Tootsie Megagirl