His Naughty Lessons

** Harper **

With every step she took, Harper could feel her heartbeat thrumming faster. With every step that led her closer and closer to the man of her destiny, the past between them flashed before her eyes, like a rolling film of old memories locked into the most beautiful frames over the years.

The days they spent running around the neighborhood together, playing video games together, going on vacations together. The days when nothing but the simplest form of like and trust drew them to each other, etching the beginning of a mark on a young heart before either of them was aware.

The days she spent pining over him, when she finally realized the existence of that mark only after they grew up and parted ways. The days when she was lost and confused by those feelings, yet at the same time, dazed by the soft flutters in her heart that she felt for the first time in her life.

The days when she cried upon the discovery that he wasn’t hers to have. The days she tried to forget him ... and the day when he suddenly reappeared in front of her, in the last way she could ever imagine.

And then, all the special Saturdays that they spent together.

All the not-dates that they went on.

All the times when that flutter in her heart would return again and again, reminding her of one simple truth — she had never forgotten about him. No matter how much she tried to convince herself otherwise, he was her first and true love ... and fate had a humorous way of sending him back to her, after all those years of unexpected twists and turns.

So there came the day when she confessed to him.