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indecision is coursing through my veins as our idle hands seek and search for home.

"this will be the death of you," she says as her soulful eyes dart to the glistening horizon, her hair floating weightlessly in the summertime breeze.

"i'd rather die knowing that we saw red, together," i let these cryptic words leak from behind my teeth and into her, a monolithic mantra that i hope she will carry and commit to memory when we will be no more.

she stretches the sleeves of her top and clasps the ends into her round, securely-clutched fists. she places her hands atop the dividing concrete wall, her legs dangling and crossed at the ankles as her eyes divert their gaze to the sand below, a saccharine smile a spectacle on her soft, flawless face.

"love you," i announce, with my hands tucked between the confines of my knees, displaying the kind of insecurity and uneasiness that i cannot bear to hide whilst within the proximity of her radiating gait and aura.

without a word, i can see the consensus in her eyes and lips, and as we come to a mutual agreement, we melt.