Greeting Death Like An Old Friend

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Dan's POV

Everything was black...Was I dead? My heart was still beating but somehow my breathing had ceased. I felt hands push on to my chest several times before I started gasping for air. Blinking my eyes open to see a slightly dusty and burnt Phil with tears streaming down his cheeks, laying on top of me. "P-Phil!?" He quickly pulled me close, his tears staining my shirt, I smiled and cried with him, "You fucking twat! I thought I told you to run!?" his eyes met mine.

"I couldn't leave you" I smiled, as much as I wished he didn't come back to get me, that he left and was safe...I was blessed that he came back and saved me. I slowly pulled away from our hugs and pressed our lips together, when I pulled away the air was thinning faster than the speed of light, "We need to get out of here" I nodded as he helped me to my feet. My legs were burned and in overwhelming pain, Phil took my shoulder over his head and attempted to help me down the last two flights of stairs.  We were almost to the last flight of stairs when more of the roof caved in and blocked our only exit. My heart was racing. This was it. We were going to die here. There were no windows and absolutely no other way out. I gripped Phil's hands and motioned him to sit on the floor with me. "No! Dan! We can't give up! We-There's-Maybe-What if we-" tears started forming in his eyes. 

I Pulled him close and slowly together we sat on the floor, "There's no other way Phil...This is...This is our only option..." He started crying into my chest as I held him close to my heart, "I love you Phillip Micheal Howell-Lester" my eyes drifted to my hand where my wedding ring was, "I don't ever want to imagine what would've happened if we didn't meet in 2009...I am so bloody h-honored and blessed to be able to call you my husband and the father of my children" His crying had ceased as he wiped away his tears and stared at me with those deep blue eyes. "You make me a better person and these past nine years with you has made me happier than I've ever been. You're my best friend, my soulmate, my husband, my boyfriend, and my world. So from the very bottom of my heart, I love you, Phil" my eyes met his, I smiled when I realized how pathetic I had just been but I didn't care. 

He smiled and placed a soft yet passionate kiss on my lips and then looked deep into my brown eyes. "Daniel James Howell-Lester," his thumb wiped away my tears, "no words can express my feelings for you. You make me comfortable in my own skin and you bring out the best in me every day. You make me laugh like no one else and when I'm with you I feel safe. I can be myself around you and honestly, I wouldn't trade that day you messaged me on Youtube for the world. I don't know where I would be without you but I do know I don't want to be there. Sure we confessed our love when we were horribly drunk," I smiled and laughed, "but we grew and felt comfortable with one another, to tell you the truth, I am so glad we confessed when we did because I don't know if I could ever live to see you with another person. I love you, Dan." Sure the lack of air was suffocating me to no end but still, I pulled Phil into a kiss. My heart and my mind were both finally on the same page, they were forcing me to hope. To hope that this wouldn't be the last time I got to kiss Phil. 

Everything around us was shaking, Phil and I were gasping for air as we looked into each other's eyes. We both nodded and smiled as everything went pitch black.

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