A Random Act of Kindness!

Chapter Twenty-Two "It's Just a Dream."

I heard him lay back, and I felt Luke snuggle further into my body. "Your house is so quiet." He laughed, "I love it."

"Is your place noisy?" I asked.

I felt his whole-body shake, and a low chuckle escape his lips. "Yeah, the guys can be very loud at times."

"I bet." I wondered what it would be like to live with my best friends and travel the world with them. "But I have a feeling that you enjoy it." I questioned him.

"Yeah, I guess I'm pretty lucky." Luke told me. I laid there feeling the slow rise and fall of his chest while he breathed, and I wondered what it would be like to wake up like this every morning.

"I get to do something I love, and I get to share it with my three best mates." He continued, and I smiled because he seemed so relaxed this morning.

"That sounds so amazing Luke." I marveled, and I couldn't help but be a little jealous. Luke and the guys got to travel all over the globe, and I was probably going to be stuck here in Texas for the rest of my life.

"It is." He told me, and I felt him lay his head on mine once again. "I had never been out of the town I grew up in before any of this."

You could tell how excited Luke was at each new place that they went as a band, and I wondered what he thought of Texas. "Now I get to go on tour with 1D in a few months, and I'll get to see so many new places.

"I envy you Luke."

"Do you love?" He said, and I couldn't be sure or not, but I could have sworn I felt him press his lips into my hair.

I was really loving the way that Luke felt so at ease with me. "Yeah, before the accident we used to travel all over the states. I've never left the country, but I've been a lot of places here."

I tried to cover the sadness in my voice, when I thought about our past family vacations, but Luke always seemed to see right through it. "What's wrong MJ?"

"Nothing Luke, I promise." I tried to bury my face into his chest, but he pulled my face up to his once again.

I felt his warm breath against my skin, and I knew how close his was to my face. I wanted to reach up and touch his cheek so badly, but I wouldn't. "Baby, please tell me what's wrong? I really want to know." He persisted with his questioning.

I smiled to myself, because he called me baby just now, and I wondered if he knew that he had. Little things like this were driving me crazy, but in a good way. I had to try and stay calm, because I didn't want to freak him out, and I was afraid that at any moment I would say the wrong thing and ruin it. "It's just that I'll never be able to travel the world the way that I've always dreamed." I admitted to Luke.

Thinking about my limitations was hard for me, and I was trying not to start crying now. "I'll never get to see Paris in the spring."

I took a deep breath and let it out slowly. "I'll never get to explore the Pyramids at Giza."

I knew I was working myself up, knowing that my blindness held me back from so much of the things I wanted to do was hard on me. "I'll just never get to travel the world, not like you, Luke."

I knew I was crying when I felt the tears roll down my cheeks. "I'm probably going to be stuck here forever." I finished.

I felt his rough hand caress my cheek softly. "Shh MJ it's okay." Luke said, I knew that he was trying to comfort me, but I was still so sad at the thought of never leaving my town.

"Just because you are blind, doesn't mean you are limited." He whispered to me, and I remembered a similar statement from my older brother Keith not that long ago.