Across the Miles by Kristen Dickerson Page B

started babbling,
nervous that Rose would reject him. He seriously hoped that he
hadn't screwed everything up.
     
    “So ask me,” Rose replied, as if it was the
most obvious thing in the world. Liam was shocked.
     
    “What?”
     
    “Ask me to be your girlfriend, Liam. I
promise that if you do I'll say yes,” Rose winked, pulling Liam
close again, resuming the slow, intimate dance that they had just
been doing.
     
    Liam smiled brightly at this.
     
    “Okay. Ummm, well... Rose Moore. I love you.
You're the most amazing person I've ever met and I would love
nothing more than for you to be my girlfriend.”
     
    “Yes, Liam Walker, I would love to be your
girlfriend,” Rose responded, sealing the deal with a kiss.
     
    “Mmm... I'm happy.” Liam stated, eventually
pulling away from the kiss, continuing the slow dance with his
girlfriend. His girlfriend. Yeah, he liked the sound of
that.
     
    “Me too.” Rose replied.
     
    “Can we just stay like this forever?” Liam
asked
     
    “We said that we would stay like this forever
the other night when we were laying in bed, too. You can't have
both. You'll have to pick one.”
     
    “Well that's no fair. I want it all,” Liam
pouted.
     
    “Well I already have it all.”
     
    “You do?”
     
    “I have you, don't I? That's all I'll ever
want.” Rose replied, smiling up at Liam. Liam spun Rose again, but
this time when he pulled her back, he placed a kiss on the top of
her head.
     
    They continued to dance some more, content
with silence. After a few minutes, Rose questioned, jokingly,
“So... when do you start showing me off?”
     
    Liam pondered ideas silently for a minute,
before finally replying with the one thing he had been dying to do
again since that night almost a month ago.
     
    “Sing with me?” Liam asked Rose.
     
    “What, right now? I don't know this song,”
Rose questioned, confused at Liam's request.
     
    Liam laughed.
     
    “No. At the show in LA. It's the last show,
and I want you to sing with me. Not for the whole show, or
anything. I think the fans might kill me if I did that. But sing at
least one song with me.”
     
    “I would love to, Liam. But we haven't even
practiced anything together.”
     
    “We sing together all the time on the tour
bus! And we sang that song together a month ago without any
practice and it was perfect. Besides, we can always practice all
day tomorrow before my show.”
     
    “Oh, all right. Fine. But only for you.
Because I love you.”
     
    “I love you, too”
     
    “Let's not go back to the bus tonight,” Rose
suggested suddenly, not wanting to leave her boyfriend's arms.
     
    “What? Where do you suggest we go
instead?”
     
    “Nowhere. Let's just stay here. Let's just
dance the night away. You said you wanted to stay here forever,
right? Well, I can't give you forever, but I can give you the
night.”
     
    “Not that I don't love this idea, but what
about sleep? We need sleep.”
     
    “Coffee. There's a 24/7 coffee shop right
down the street. When we get tired, we'll go get coffee. Until
then, I'm currently running off of the adrenaline caused by being
with you. So can you please just continue to hold me tight and
dance with me?”
     
    Liam chuckled at his girlfriend's craziness,
but couldn't refuse to dance with this beautiful woman in his arms
all night.
     
    “Fine. But when you're dead tired tomorrow,
don't blame me. We still have to practice that song at some point
too, remember,” Liam responding, trying to be somewhat
practical.
     
    “It will all be worth it. Trust me.”
     
    Trust me... that was something Liam could
surely do. He had never trusted anyone in his life more than he
trusted Rose Moore. So he held on to Rose even tighter and
continued to dance with her until the early hours of morning.
     
    On their way back to the bus, at around five
in the morning, they decided to hit up that coffee shop. As they
were waiting on their coffees to be made, Rose said