Name Tagg

This day has been strange. It started with a bang! My mother's birthday.... I woke up and jumped into action, meeting her at her house to take her out for a mother daughter manicures. We went to the mall and put our names on the waiting list, we were told it would be about an hour, so that gave us time to get a quick bite to eat. After an hour we went back to the nail place where we're told to sit down. We wait yet another forty-five minutes, and right around the time where the fumes start to give us head aches we decide to leave. So we get back to my mothers place, she walks up into her bedroom where I start to hear her boyfriend and her scream at each other, this goes on and on and on and so i say my good-byes and left. My mother is a great person, but her choice in men..... well i'll save that for another time.

I get home, and my uncle is complaining about his latest aches and pains, my grandparents are sick, my brother still in bed at three a.m, and my cousin is looking for an source of attention he can get. I'm tired and in a bad mood as is but decide to cook. I bake a cheese cake from scratch knowing it would kill a bit of time, but even after it was done and cooling my mind was everywhere. I get a text message, and the first sight of Sam's name put a slight smile on my face. "Hello, Love. How are you?" I couldn't possibly tell him all that i was feeling through one text message, so i stepped outside to make the phone call. I walk around the block telling him about my eventful day. He tells me it's all going to be ok, and that he's sorry i was feeling so bad. I couldn't help but smile. But the conversation only lasted as long as it took to walk the block around once. He told me his phone was about to die, and just like that he was gone, and my bad mood had returned. I walked back into the stuffy overcrowded house. I ran through not saying a word to anyone, and lock myself in my room. I turned on my record player, and as it started to play "Across the Universe" i unrolled my yoga mat and began to de-stress. I focused on my breathing, and the lyrics. Before I knew it, the album had ended.

I turned of the player, and turned on my laptop. I sat on my bed and as i waited for my laptop to turn on, i closed my eyes, when i opened them, i felt the presence of someone beside me. Expecting it to be one of my many room mates, when i turned around i was surprised with a kiss. I could tell by the way my breath was sucked from my lungs, and the way the room danced around my head it was Sam. I was overwhelmed by the surprise, i wrapped my arms around his neck and refused to let go until the room stopped spinning. I heard him chuckle at my response, and i finally let go. We went to the kitchen and poured two cups of coffee, and went to the porch to talk. We sat in silence, just sipping our hot coffee, and smiled at the thought of each others company. He talked about his day stopping in between sentences just to smile at me. We finished our coffee and went inside to watch a movie. We sat on the couch wrapped in each others arms paying little attention to the movie, just breathing in the energy that surrounded us.

After the movie we went back to the porch. Again we didn't say much, just sat there and looked at each other, but this time he didn't smile. I asked him what he was thinking, he replied with a long speech about how for the short time we have been together, he cared about me too much, and he didn't want to hurt me though he has no intention of doing anything that could. He loves me. He told me that. And today was the day I finally broke and told him i truly loved him too. We kissed, and once again the world was spinning around me. I looked out to the street trying to focus my eyes on something to stop the dizziness, and i felt a cold line around my neck followed by his warm breath in my ear as he whispered, "Don't take this off until your truly 100% over me." as i griped the necklace in my hand all i could say was, "I won't." it didn't take long to realize what hung right above my heart. It was a tag with Samuel W. Smith written on it with his birthday. It was a tag he's been wearing everyday for five years, something i've come to know as a part of him, and now hangs close to my heart at all times.