Heart's Love

There came this striking grin on Tony's smile like he's playing a joke on her, "If I stay what will I get as reward?"

Realizing the smile on her face Zetian realized the man in front of her was only playing a game on her.

She purses her lips in faint frustration for him. Turning around with her arms crossed, "I should I have known you weren't serious."

Without hesitation Tony crosses his arms around her neck. Whispering softly next to her ear, "I'm sorry. I didn't mean for you to be so upset."

She stayed a bit quiet for a minute without saying anything. Which made Tony feel like this time he might really had upset her.

In the next second he felt the touch of her soft hand holding on to his arm that hangs on her shoulder from behind.

She didn't clutch his hand tightly. Though there's a small strength there as she holds it not wanting to let go of her grasp from him.

She turns herself till she faces him with her small face look up at him in an angle.

The long shadow of the building covers both of them where they are standing in the garden.

Her eyes contain an electrical magnetic way of making him unable to avert his gaze.

She closes her arms around his waist before saying to him, "I'm serious Zhidu…about us. Honestly, you're the only person I have left."

Her large black eyes seem to contain a touch of vulnerability that hides behind that innocence.

With such a vulnerability she displays before him that he felt the desire to protect her for the rest of his life.

Moreover, to never let anyone else hurt her like before. To make her the happiest girl in the world. To hold her close into his arms.

"I'm also serious about you," his piercing gaze shoots through her heart. There's solemness to his proclamation of the inner feelings that rests inside his heart. "Nothing can make me more serious about us. About you."

She averts her eyes to the ground then looks back into his intense desirous gaze. Asking softly just so he can hear, "Are trying to play with me again?"

"No, I really mean it. I'm not joking this time," Tony uses his long fingers to lift her chin so that her eyes which are away focuses back on him.

"How do you do this?" She asks with her cheeks flushed with an innocent charm to her, "You make me feel slightly intimidated. Do you say this to all the other girls?"

This was the very first time she ever asked him this question. Deep inside Zetian really want to believe in him, more than anything else she wants to have faith in this love.

Yet experience has taught her that no matter how strong the love for someone is. There's no love that exists in this world which will not be extinguished by time.

The power of time couldn't overcome the strength of love from the faint traces in her memory. It always become just extinguished with the slight blow from the changing time.

"One million years can pass

One thousand winter

One thousand summers

This love will not fade

I'll never stop loving you

Like the sun chase after the moon

Waiting in the darkness

Waiting in the frozen cold

Just to tell you my heart's love"

His words were spoken with a deep charming voice. It almost seems to contain a short melody to it that is breathtaking for her to contain in her heart.

Hearing this short poem that he composed on the spot really touches her heart. This is actually the first time that anyone has dedicated something so beautiful as a gift to her.

"Are you really that much in love with me?" she holds onto his arms checking his expression with cautiousness.

With his hand he touches those small dainty red lips. Feeling his heart begging him to kiss them, a tumultuous amount of desire that swells inside.

It has been so long since he felt his heart beat this way for a woman. He also had long forgotten how it felt to be in love, to be just a young boy professing his love for the girl in his heart.

"Every day, I long to see that sunlight in your eyes," he looks straight into her soul.

He placed his hand on his heart speaking deeply, "Sometimes I feel my heart overflow. You're all I ever wanted. And I want to tell you so much, I love you."

Those last three words were only spoken after there was a pause. He spoke them in a whisper as his face was only an inch away from kissing her soft lips.

In that close distance he could no longer control the overwhelming desire to take a bite of her.

When he kissed her, it was like the world and all its drama are loss. Gone they were.

Zetian embraces him tighter continuing the kiss before he breaks away for both of them to regain their breath.

She felt her entire body pulsing with a strange sensation. Like they were asleep and dormant only to be awaken by the sweetness of that kiss.

As she is still regaining her breath, she whispered to him in that close proximity, "I love you. You don't know how long I have waited for you.

She smiles with a childish innocence continuing, "You're the most important thing to me now. You're the most important thing to me forever."

Hearing those words that are spoken from this girl before him made Tony feel his heart ushering a newfound warmth where coldness has been.

The most beautiful thing a woman can ever say to you is that she loves you. Nothing else needs to be said. And everything else is unnecessary.

Her love is more than enough.

In that close distant he could see and feel her heart's love reflected in her eyes. In this moment she's all that he wants, all that makes him alive.