Chapter 3 -- Hearts Fastened

SoundTrack

Nat King Cole & Natalie Cole - When I Fall In Love

Leann Rimes -- I Need You

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As Harry pulled into his driveway, his mother was there on the porch sipping tea. She knew instantly there was something different about her son. As he walked up onto the porch, she said with a soft smile on her face: "You finally met somebody". He just sighed to himself, knowing she was the only individual, male or female, who could read him like a book
and see straight through to his soul. He just shook his head in disbelief. "Here it comes" he thought to himself -- "the talk". "Uh", he stammered...."I don't know yet" he confessed.

"I know" his mother said gently. "I've been prayin' for this day ever since you were a little boy, that God would keep you pure and whole, and only bring into your life the woman HE wants for you and to close off all others from your heart. It looks like my prayers are finally bein' answered son. I can feel it. I can see it in your eyes and read it in your face".

"Everyday I thank God for you momma" he said while looking at all the wrinkles in her face. "You've been my rock when I had no one else.....literally". He kissed her on the cheek and said: "Now I've got homework to do. We have to write a sort of free verse or poetry for English Literature during the Romance Period. It'll be fun" he said while rolling his eyes.

"Oh son, you'll do fine. Deep down you're a romantic. You just may surprise yourself" said his mother.

"I'm not good in the romance department momma. That's why....this girl...she's....she's indescribable", he said as he started zoning out. "I just looked at her today and....the whole world stopped. Not a thing existed....just her face".

His mother looked at him, mesmerized. "He's found the one" she confirmed to herself. "She's it". But she never said a word. This was between Harry & God now. She would just silently pray for the two of them to become one in HIS time.

Harry went upstairs to begin work on his English Literature Romance project, dreading every passing minute. He simply had no insight to romance or women. It wasn't his forte. It wasn't something he understood at all. After a few minutes, he gave up and went to lie down on his bed. He said a silent prayer before God to help him wright a paper that would honor HIM, something pure & right. He closed his eyes and just concentrated. All he saw was Christina's face. He continued to lie on his bed, his eyes filling with tears. He just let them stream where they may and he said a silent prayer to God: "I can't explain it, I really want her to be the one. She's got my heart and there's no gettin' it back".

After a few minutes, Harry had the most beautiful poetic words come to him from the very depths of his soul, bubbling up through his heart:

1.When she walks away from you mad
[ Follow her ]

2.When she stare's at your mouth
[ Kiss her ]

3.When she misses you
[ she's hurting inside ]

4.When she starts cussing at you
[ Kiss her and tell her you love her ]

5.When she's quiet
[ Ask her whats wrong ]

6.When she ignores you
[ Give her your attention ]

7.When she pulls away
[ Pull her back ]

8.When you see her at her worst
[ Tell her she's beautiful ]

9.When you see her start crying
[Just hold her and dont say a word ]

10.When you see her walking
[ Sneak up and hug her waist from behind ]

11.When she's scared
[ Protect her ]

12.When she lays her head on your shoulder
[ Tilt her head up and kiss her ]

13.When she looks at you in your eyes
[ dont look away until she does ]

14.When she doesn't answer for a long time
[ reassure her that everything is okay ]

15.When she says that she likes you
[she really does MORE than you could understand ]

It took him all of 20 minutes to write it all down. The words just seemed to flow out of him like a waterfall spilling into the river. He just kept wrighting and wrighting until his mind ran out of thoughts. When he had finished, he laid his paper aside and climbed into the window sill of his bedroom's big picture window.

Leann Rimes' song "I Need You" started to play on his stereo.

After tomorrow, there would be no turning back for him.....for EITHER of them. He knew once he read his assignment out loud, she would subtlely and indirectly know he was speaking straight to her. He swollowed hard as the butterflies in his stomach started again. All he could do was sigh, as he listened to Savage Garden's "I Knew I Loved You Before I Met
You". He & she hadn't formally met yet, but he was already in love.

He had always felt lost inside -- mentally, emotionally, psychologically, etc. But when he found Christina, he seemed to start finding his way home. He climbed in bed for the night, and, while listening to his favorite radio station playing love songs, he fell asleep to thoughts of Christina's perfect porcelain features.