The scope of love

Chapter 12

It has been a couple of weeks of bliss for us Romantically speaking. We go out every Friday and Saturday. We mostly spend the time cuddled up in each others arms or plotting. Not that we have come up with any ground breaking ideas. We want to expose the program for what it is, but we don’t want to out ourselves. That is the big problem. If we do in fact get a way to expose them and it fails we bring ourselves down. So until we know one hundred percent that we can bring it down we are staying in the dark in this planning phase of ours. The last thing we need is for the program to ruin one more good thing - which is us. We have thought of taking all of this social. Social platforms is the most universal thing that we can do, but it can be traced back to us, other than that it could have been brilliant. I just need to keep reminding myself that this is a large organization with its claws in almost everything in our world. They have power, enough power to destroy us. Just thinking about how they can take away your chance at education, occupation, martial relationship and any form of income is scary. What we are doing is scary, but it’s the right thing to do. This started as me the lone ranger rebelling against the program and rules set out for me, then it became ‘just the pair of us’ fighting the program and rule to stay together and now it is much bigger now we are the advocate for anyone being wronged. Who asked us to do this? No one. Do they want our help? No Do they intend to follow the rules blindly? Yes. Why do they do that? Because they feel like they have no choice. Why are we doing this? Because we chose to and that is what we want for everyone else, a choice. If there was just a obvious way to go about all of this. It’s times like these I yearn for my life to be a movie. Everything is so easily obvious in the movies. We spend Fridays enjoying each others company with no talk about the programme and then on Saturdays we brainstorm. We have a lot of good plans, if only we had money, influence and power. I’ve been thinking about this all week. It’s all I think about when I’m not with Declan because I want to have answers when I meet up with him. This was all my idea after all. I feel like I need to be the one to come up with the plan. I grab a sweater and pull it over my head. There is a slight breeze today. It’s better to stay hot than catching a cold. I put on my shoes and wave goodbye to Madison who is laying on the bed and reading a book. She has given up at finding someone. She’ll wait for a new student and check for transfers in the beginning of next year or she’ll register for the subsidized house and speed dating program. She doesn’t have a choice her family wholeheartedly believe in the program after her sister seemed to have met the love of her live in the program. I wonder what happens behind closed door with this perfect program couples. Are they really that perfect or are they like any other couples. It reminds me of fake promos being shot of the perfect couple and family, but it’s always staged. Of course I would never tell Madison this. Yes she knows how I feel about the program, but that is a level of cynicism she doesn’t need to know about. I made my way over to where I always wait for Declan. He was already waiting for me. I took his hand and we made our way out. We have decided no public displays of affection near the exit. We don’t need anyone focusing on us, but as soon as we are out of eye shot I’m puled into Declans chest. He kisses me like he hasn’t seen me for a week and has to catch up, of course that is the actual reason. Not being able to see each other for five out of the seven days is unfair and ridiculous. After kissing me he just holds me against his chest. I soak up all the Declan I can, knowing that tomorrow I will get another dose of him. Our trip consist of an activity, dinner and a late return to the school. Today we are going Ice skating. It’s not the best day since it is already so cold, but we have been planning it and we aren’t chickening out now. It feels like the perfect date. I use to ice skate a lot I even have my own skates at home. I haven’t done it in a while so I just had to get use to it again. Declan on the other hand has never ice skated before and it was a mission and a half to convince him to let go of the barrier. He finally did though and we held hands as we skated extremely slowly. It was cute so I didn’t mind much. We made it a couple of rounds around the rink with Declan almost falling, but he never did when he suddenly went down and in an attempt no not fall he grabbed onto me, well my sweater which only made me loose my balance and the both of us fell down. I landed on the ice and he landed on me. We burst out laughing at how silly we were.

“Frosted kiss!” He declared before kissing me. It was a sweet moment one I would never give up not even knowing all the other skaters was watching us as they had to skate around us. When we finally managed to get up -Declan having to crawl on his knees to the barrier because he kept falling as he tried to get up- we decided we had enough for one day and went upstairs to the coffee shop where we both got grande hot chocolates to defrost our cold bodies. Once we finished our drinks and I have successfully stolen all Declans mini marshmallows we left the rink. The outside world seemed a lot warmer now that we were use to the coldness of the rink, but with time the wetness of our clothes began to bother us. Which is why we decided on a quick dinner. We got burgers and cooldrink at a restaurant that was near to the school. The food was great the company better and once our quick meal was over the both of us seemed to want to linger as we weren’t ready to say goodbye to each other just yet, but half an hours later and three cups of coffee to warm myself up I knew it was time to head back so we slowly started walking back. As we got to the school we saw a line of students which was strange. There had never been a line before, but we just assumed a lot of us returned at the same time due to the coldness of the night. It gave us more time together even though it was cold. I stood with my back against his front, is arms folding around me as we moved in unison every time we could move a bit closer to the doors. It is once we got closer that we heard that officials from the programme was at the school and they were checking everyone’s ID’s. We were a little freaked out, but my ID was a good fake and we didn’t think it was possible for us to get caught. I leaned my head back for a last kiss before we get into the school building. The last kiss before I had to wait till the next day to see him again. When we finally got to the front of the line. I was grateful to be out of the called and a bit nervous for the ID check. We handed them our ID’s. The officials checked them and then handed them to the teachers to check the info on the system.

“It’s them.” Those words made my heart stop. They grabbed us on our arms like we would run away. I had no idea where they thought we would go because honestly we lived here at school. Did they expect us to go all action movie on them with a big chase scene. I never really thought of this moment. I never thought that we could be caught, but here we are. I don’t even know what the punishment for this will be. I wonder if we will be expelled and cast out? We were dragged to the office building where the two of us were lead into different room. I was in the principals office and Declan was in the vice-principals office. Divide and conquer,

Book Entry

There is a moment when everything slows down and you get the full glimpse of a situation. This was my moment. The moment right before they split us up into two room. Everything slowed down and I looked over my shoulder and saw Declan doing the same. Our eyes met and somehow I knew in that moment it would be the last time that the two of us would have a silent moment between us for a long time and I hoped that my eyes conveyed everything I wanted to tell him one last time. I hoped they screamed ‘I Love you Always’