Lily: You are opening up to him like non other. Laying down your deepest secrets like cards on his table. Giving him access to memories you never wanted to revisit!
Isabella: I try not to. But I can’t help it. The comfort of having a heart that knows every layer of yours is irresistible.
Lily: Knowing that this is not going to work?
Isabella: I told you, Lily, he’s the one risk I have taken knowing it’ll hurt. Realizing I’ll have my heart broken beyond repair. I want to love with all my guards down -- like never before! Never having to regret that this is the side of me I have kept to myself all my life. Knowing that there’s someone who knows me better that I do! I know he wouldn’t stay. But our memories will. And no matter how painful they will be once he leaves, they’ll be mine forever! And I want no ‘if's’ there. I would be content knowing I did all that I could to make him stay, but it just wasn’t meant to be!
Lily: And living with him? How would you cope with the emptiness of a broken heart and lonely house at once?
Isabella: People often say love fades away when you know a person in their entirety, when you live with them, when you deal with them 24*7. You get used to them and sick of them at the same time. May be that’s my only repose. I hope to get sick of him by the time he leaves!
Lily: Isabella, you are not doing this right!
Isabella: Nothing ever felt so right before, Lily! Now shut up and sleep!
She shut her inner voice and hugged him tighter. All her worries were put to rest as she felt his breath on her neck. The silence had her listening to his heartbeat and before she knew it, she was peacefully sleeping in his arms.
The pointless banter continued every night till he turned around and tucked her to his chest.