“I’ve said it before I can wait in the darkness until you shine your light on me,” she says, looking back up to the stars.

“I don’t think that will ever happen,” Carmen says, looking into the stars.

The woman nods, and stays silent. Carmen looks over to her and finally gets a good view of the tattoo.

“Two stars?”

“Our stars,” she says with a nod, never once breaking the stare to the sky.

“When did you get it?” Carmen asks.

“About 3 months ago,” she says, “when I wrote my last letter to the love of my life.”

“You didn’t propose did you?” Carmen asks, remembering the sloppy writing. She shakes her head no. “I couldn’t bring myself to give you away to a stranger.”

Carmen closes her eyes, “I can’t fall in love with a stranger, not again. I tried so hard to find the piece of Cherie that I loved but I couldn’t because all that time-“

“It was me.”

“Yes.” Carmen says, eyes still closed, the cool air causing Goosebumps on her skin.

“I understand, you can’t fall in love with a stranger, that’s just impossible,” she says.

Carmen opens her eyes, only to find the woman with a smirk, hand outstretched waiting for…

“Don’t be rude now Carm,” she says. Carmen almost wants to slap that smirk off her face, but she chooses to shake the woman’s hand instead.

“My name is Shane McCutcheon, and I’m in love with you.” Shane says, leaning closer to Carmen, until their bodies are touching closely.

“Are we still strangers?” Shane asks, Carmen can feel Shane’s breath on her lips, so close.

“No.” Carmen says, leaning in the rest of the way, their lips connecting in a chaste yet passionate kiss.

Carmen opens her eyes, once they had to pull away for air, and like every night since she was a child, Carmen looks up and sees stars.

Only this time, they were in Shane’s eyes. That’s when she knew, with Shane, she’d always shine brightly.

The end. [Delta Goodrem: in this life.]

Random question how’d you like it? You like my short stories or should I give up and stick with the long ones?