Copperline

“What Time is it?” she asked. as they laid down on the top of the hill. the uncut grass all around them.  They stared at the sky.

The stars were out tonight and their conversation grew quieter. She yawned and turned inward. He looked over to her and they made awkward eye contact, they stared into each others eyes through the uncut grass. She smiled and laughed. He loved that laugh.

He broke the eye contact to look back at the sky, singing a few lyrics from a favorite song.

“There’s something in the way she moves,
or looks my way or calls my name,
that seems to leave this troubled world behind.”

“Who was that?” she asked.

“James Taylor” he said into the air.

“James who?”

“Never mind it, he’s a guitar player.”

“Oh, I like his sound.”

He started to sing again.

“And I feel fine any time she’s around me now, she’s around me now
almost all the time.
And if I’m well you can tell she’s been with me now,”

She tried to whistle the tune, she wasn’t doing to well but that didn’t bother him. She stopped, he looked over again and she was giving him a funny look. He leaned in and kissed her.

She was on her side and she rolled onto her back. He leaned in farther, she wasn’t pulling away, she was just taken off guard, off balance. They blended in with the grass, one giant passionate embrace with the earth.

Their embrace ended and he rolled back. He started to sing  once again, this time from a different song.

“First kiss ever I took
Like a page from a romance book
The sky opened and the earth shook
Down on copperline”

She sat up when he was done. It was almost pitch black, he could only make out a silhouette of  her features in the moonlight.

“You’re such a dork,” she said as she laughed. “You kiss well. But you’re such a dork.”

“In a good way right?”

“Yep,” she responded. “You’re a cute, sensitive dork. Like something from the pages –”

“Of a romance book.”  They finished the line together.”

He could see her smile in the dark.

She stood up, looking into the parking lot. “My mom is here” she said as she started to run down the hill.