linmanuelmirandas:

❝ This, I think is the first time I dared myself to stare back at him. Usually, I’d cast a glance and then look away —look away because I didn’t want to swim in the lovely, clear pool of his eyes unless I’d been invited to —and I have never waited long enough to know whether I was even wanted there; look away because I was too scared to stare anyone back; look away because I didn’t want to give anything away; look away because I couldn’t acknowledge how much he mattered. (…) Now, in the silence of the moment, I stared back, not to defy him, or to show I wasn’t shy any longer, but to surrender, to tell him this is who I am, this is who you are, this is what I want, there is nothing but truth between us now.. ❞