I do not have wings, love, I never will... Soarin' over a world you are carryin'... If these heights should bring my fall... Let me be your own Icarian carrion... If the wind turns, if I hit a squall... Allow the ground to find its brutal way to me... If I should fall on that day... I only pray, don't fall away from me...♪
You always found a way to fall in love with Natalie Scatorccio. Whether it be hookups at party's when you two were young and no worries at all, meeting at random after the crash, or being at your highschool reunion.
Respectively, this highschool reunion sucks. The spiked kool-aid is watered down, the food bland, and the people even blander. It also didn't help that Allie kept staring at you while talking to other people.
You were primarily waiting for Misty. She was the only one who really tried to keep in contact with you, even if she was Misty fucking Quigley. You drink your watered down punch and quietly watch Randy and Jeff laughing about something.
Then the door opens and the woman you were just reminiscing about walks through, suddenly you're 17 again and back in the Wilderness.
Wilderness, Late Summer of 1997...
Damn Shauna... She's just damned us all. Wanting to stay?! We have the chance to leave. We actually have a chance now! No matter how small it is. You think, pacing around in Natalie's and your shared hut.
Then you hear Nat come in and you almost start breaking down, she quickly hugs you. You could almost cry qsas you bury your face in her shoulder. "Are we ever going to leave this place?" You say, voice cracking, and she holds you tighter.
"We will. We have to." Nat replies and you look at her, she has such beautiful eyes.
You kiss her and she kisses back before you two go back to holding each other. Gentle comfort. It was easy to relax in her. She guides you to your shared bed and you lay on her chest. She kisses your head and rubs your back.
"We will get out of here. I swear it." She mumbles against your hair.
Back to the present...
You quickly lock eyes with Natalie and your body moves on it's own, going straight (nothing straight about this, tbh) to her side. It was as if you were Icarus and she was Apollo. You would fly too close, even when she burns you. She burned you, not always necessarily meaning to.
You loved her like a moth loved the light. She loved you like the Sun loves the Earth.
She awkwardly glances at you and smiles, your hands brushing. You heart jolts and again you fall, hitting the ocean as you let yourself drown as always. She looks at you again and in her eyes you see that the feeling is reciprocated, that Apollo also loved Icarus even when he knew he would burn him to ashes.
You, Nat, Tai, Misty, and Shauna all find your table with Jeff. Quickly you entwine you hand with Natalie's, she doesn't pull away.
"How have you been, honeybee?" You smile, softly brushing you lips against her temple, as if no time has passed between you two and she rolls her eyes at the nickname.
"I've been... fine. Do you always have to call me that?" She grumbles and squeezes you hand.