“I’m okay, what’s the matter? Is Lara not staying?” It was pretty obvious that Lara was upset with me but I didn’t want to talk about it with Alice, there was no way I would be able to explain it to her.  

“What? Oh, no, she‘s got to work. You bring a DVD?”. I tried to change the subject as soon as possible. Alice held up Pearl Harbor and instantly I felt much better, it touched me that Alice knew what my favourite film is, although it was hardly surprising, as we had watched it together so many times.

Alice bent down to put the DVD into the player, walked over to the coffee table and picked up the remote. She then turned and went to sit beside me on the couch. I was a bit disappointed that she did not sit any closer to me, she left quite a big gap between us.  

As usual, I soon got into the movie. I then decided to be courageous and move closer to Alice, I didn’t want to make her uncomfortable but I needed to be close to her. It had been a while since we had been this close. I shuffled over a bit and leant slightly onto her arm, my body tingling at the touch of her skin.  

To my surprise, Alice reacted to this by moving closer to me, so that I could feel our thighs touching. I tried to focus on the TV and watched as Ben Affleck’s plane was shot at and it began to smoke. Alice grabbed my arm and rested her head on my shoulder. I wanted to protect her. I held her hand that was resting on my arm. We continued to stay close to each other and I noticed that she didn’t even move away from me during the love scene between Kate Beckinsale and Josh Hartnett, if anything she seemed to get even closer. I felt like I was in heaven. The whole time I was wondering what this meant.

When Josh Hartnett died in Ben Affleck’s arms I looked down and realized that Alice was crying.  She always cried at this part. I ran my thumb over her cheek to wipe away her tears. She looked up at me with her gorgeous glistening eyes and gave a weak laugh, obviously embarrassed that she was being so soppy. She turned her head back to the film and I planted a small kiss on the top of her head. I couldn’t help myself.