Well she hadn’t simply walked away yet, and that was something he supposed. She could have turned tail and left him in the dust, but she had stayed and that gave him the slightest bit of hope. In the end that was all that he needed to take the biggest leap of faith. There are moments that will define you for the rest of your life, and standing before Haven tonight he knew would be one of those moments. For better or worse this is something that will shape his future, for a boy who has always been so carefree and downright lackadaisical to find something worth caring about would forever change him. Time seems to slow as he waits for her reaction to his declaration of love, his eyes so desperately searching her own for any indication of if she was happy or upset with him. Finally those same words leave her mouth and he feels like he could jump over the moon! Was this truly happening? He had dared dream of this possibility, but the fact that it could be a reality was beyond anything he had imagined.

He veritably bounces on the balls of his feet, his dark tail cutting a wide arc behind him as he prepared to run to her when she beats him to the punch. He barely has time to brace himself before she barrels into him, their height difference allowing her the perfect ability to burrow her head into his slender chest. Immediately he lowered his white marked head to wrap around her neck, nuzzling his nose into the thick of her scruff and inhaling mountain and wood and den and everything that was so uniquely her. He sighed in pure contented bliss, his breath ruffling her cream and tan fur. This, he knew, was heaven. How long had he ached to hold her? To feel the warmth of her body pressed into his own was more comforting that he had imagined, as if he was finally whole once more. Ever since that fateful day where he had ran into her, in the most literal sense, and every moment after his world had revolved around her.

They are young, inexperienced, and entirely green in the ways of love and relationships, but in this moment they are perfect. He never imaged he would be able to feel like this for someone, that he would want this as much as he did with her, but let’s be honest he wanted everything with her. For a moment he pulled her tight against him, relishing every moment he was holding her as if it might be his last, before relaxing only slightly. “I never thought I would be this lucky,” he mumbles before pulling back just enough to look into her shimmering eyes. He can’t quite take the separation though, not now when everything about her seems new all over again. Reaching down he peppers a few kisses right between her eyes where her dark dorsal stripe begins before nuzzling her check gently. “You’re brother is going to kill me,” he jokes softly, his breezy laughter so flippant showing just how little he would care. Dying for a few moments with her would be his greatest pleasure.