Heavenly

[Indianna Lee]

i can fly but i want his wings,
brightstone, as always, was its usual chirpy self. hogwarts students darted in and out of
streets and stores and groups of friends with those unimaginably excited faces indianna
had grown perhaps a little to accustomed to seeing. but this time was radically different.
this time, she finally felt that she fit perfectly into the radiant mood that had cloaked the
quaint village. the girl, no longer sixteen going on seventeen but an adult now by ways of
the wizarding law, stood like a picture in deep carmine pink. the silky folds and feathery
cuts of cotton pieced together beautifully in a dress that fell down to her mid thigh, one
that her grandmother had been chomping down on the bit to buy when they had come
across it in the french boutique she had dragged indi into. and for once, indi had let her.
for any other girl this might seem a passive gesture, nothing earth-bending or out of the
usual but as far as arielle grace lee was concerned, her granddaughter was stubbornly
comfortable in jeans and baggy old sweaters. this, she had marvelled in rich french, was
the making of a woman in indianna lee. but the seventeen year old had thought different
and had shyly opened up to her grandmother all about her boyfriend. thus far sam prince
had arielle’s stamp of approval, especially when she had peeked at the picture of him in
indi’s wallet. now there was something the girl was aware of – her boyfriend was, quite
frankly, gorgeous and indianna wanted to feed him a spoonful of his own medicine. how
ever she had reeled in such a wonderful person like him when she had never even had a
boyfriend before he had come along was a mystery lost completely on indi but it was not
something she wanted to dwell for hours over either, not when she could be trying to spy
him through the throng of students that steadily passed by her spot by the lamp post.

eyes such an earthy mix of greens and golds and browns surveyed a group that bustled
past, knowing that sam wouldn’t be with them but feeling oddly curious anyhow. indianna
loved how sam could bring this out in her, a bubbly confidence that she had only dreamt
of feeling before she had met him. in fact he brought out a lot of things in her that she’d
never taken the time or faith to notice before. indi had heard plenty of times that that was
one of many things that love was, when you felt you were at your best with someone. it
had only been a few months and over letters that their relationship had been building up
on but indi had been falling for sam a long time before then. it had been something like
love at first sight when she had met him. of course she had been fifteen then, and at that
age claiming a feeling as powerful and as spontaneous as such sounded irrational and
positively stupid. even at seventeen it sounded a little rash. but the girl knew it was true
and it certainly felt as if it was true. it wasn’t as if she was scribbling ‘mrs indianna prince’
all over her schoolbooks like she had sealed it within her head that this was the man that
she was going to spend the rest of her life with but she did love him. she really did. but to
say it out loud was a different matter altogether, one that made her squirm anxiously on
the inside. even if sam had boosted her confidence beyond the sky, that wasn’t a leap
she was ready to take. especially when she wasn’t sure if sam felt at all the same.

there were gazes all about her, beside her, behind her, on her. none of them were sam’s
though, she could tell without even having to look because there was just something
about those bright eyes of his that made her feel warm inside. mémère had seemingly
been right when she’d said that indianna would have the tongues of those new zealand
boys wagging. but as the seventeen year old shifted around in her four inch heels, she
began to grow anxious for sam to arrive and make her feel comfortable in her own skin
again. that, and so she could simply throw her arms around him and kiss him until she
was breathless. three months was a long time when you were waiting to see sam prince.
​

 

[Sam Prince]

a n d y o u w i l l h o l d m y h e a r t

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INSIDE YOUR HAND - - -

brightstone weekend had finally arrived and as usual animated flocks of students fled the school
for a single day, typically to be spent with friends, free from the irking thoughts of looming exams
or just the usual stress and strain of being a hogwarts student. but for sam prince exams or school
work rarely crossed his mind and his reason for being in brightstone on this autumn day was the
same reason he had visited brightstone for the past two years. the only reason. indianna lee was
someone who, from the very day he met her, he had fallen for. it was unintentional, unexpected
and unstoppable. he couldn't explain what it was that separated indianna grace from every other
girl on the planet. it was just her as a whole, her entirity. and sam counted himself as the luckiest
guy in the world for meeting indianna that day in brightstone because was it not for her, things in
sam's life would be far too different for him to even properly fathom. but that was neither here
nor there as sam rarely liked to think of what life would be like without indi, instead he counted
down the days until he would see her next, where he could then spend those precious few hours
with her. it didn't seem at all fair that their time spent together was so limited, but sam would
rather spend that single day with her then none at all.


he walked the narrow path that connected the tiny village to his school at a great pace thread-
ing in out of groups of students, excusing himself as he did so. sam was already a tad late which
certainly didn't bode well on days like today, where a couple of hours was all he had. however
if it wasn't for those hogwarts elves he wouldn't have been so late but that was a whole other
story. right now all that mattered was that sam found indi, in the midst of the madness which was
not at all hard, because she was looking more radiant than ever as she stood beside that lampost.
his heart skipped a beat - or two - as he stopped in his tracks and stared, dumbstruck. students collided
into him and the large backpack that tugged at his broad shoulders, he shuffled a couple of steps
to side from the force, but his blue eyes still locked onto the beauty by the lamppost. blood rushed
around his body and his heart quickened with every passing second. but amidst all of the excitement
there was a tingle of nervousness in the pit of his stomach and he honestly did not know why.
he had been looking forward to this day for three whole months and now he decided to be nervous?
with that however, sam walked over to her, in what seemed a lot longer than a couple of seconds,
he stood behind her for only a moment, because that's all it took. to calm his silly nerves and to
put that ridiculously cute smile on his face. he wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her
in so closely to his body. he breathed in that refreshing smell, felt the warmth that already spread
between to the two bodies and with a soft whisper he spoke a simple, "hey."​

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[Indianna Lee]

i can fly but i want his wings,
by a means of distracting herself from the excited impatience that was zipping right down
to her toes and would soon have her all but dancing around on the spikes of her heels,
indianna set her gaze to glide freely over brightstone village. it wasn’t quite the shabbiest
place in the world, nor was it the most elegant but the seventeen year old knew it would
definitely place in her list of most favourite places around the world. and being that indi
was british, french and latin american, she had travelled a world further than the confines
of her fences in youlgreave. in her eyes, brightstone village could top the eiffel tower any
day. it wasn’t so much the butterbeers in the three broomsticks or the cauldron cakes in
honeydukes that pulled indianna to the village time and time again. but it was because of
a person, one wonderful person, that she felt more elated right there leaning against that
lamppost then in the grand castle of beauxbatons or oohing and aahing as she walked
through the louvre. as her intelligent hazel eyes reflected the green lawn of the park, she
couldn’t help but to feel that despite that the village was currently being churned up by
the hundreds of hogwarts students, this village was in a most secretive way theirs. it was
where they had met as she strummed out a favourite on her guitar, it was where she had
fallen not only head over heels but body over broomstick for sam when he had taught
her how to fly. it was where after all the exhausting, heart wrenching struggles between
he and she and his ex-girlfriend had finally tumbled down forgotten when their lips had
met for the very first time. a smile graced her lips, soft and affectionate, as she spied a
child of no more than five whiz around in a fit of gigglish cries upon an age appropriate
broomstick, her mother chasing the tail just in case the tiny girl happened to fall. but so
far she seemed to be doing better than indi. the seventeen year old could still recall with
perfect clarity the felling of falling through the sky and into the arms of sam prince. indi
wasn’t sure if it was the memory of the free fall, or the warmth of his body against hers
but all of a sudden the butterflies inside her stomach walls exploded anew with suicidal
force. a warmth tingled down the back of her neck and coursed it’s shiveringly delicate
way along her spine. this was a different feeling altogether but something so excitingly
familiar as well. that heat, that tingle, that skip of her heart could only mean one thing.

before she had the moment to whip around and chance this inkling of hers, indianna felt
a robust pair of arms catch around the curve of her waist. her teeth glistened in the sun
light as they caught her lower lip, preventing it from curving up into a ridiculously broad
grin. all week she had practiced this to an art form, attempting to shield her incontrollable
elation from the curious eyes of audrey and her mother. but, indianna hastily reminded
herself, this is sam. it seemed surreal to finally be here in his arms like she had not only
dreamt but day dreamt about for the past few months. but any sliver of disbelief came to
meet its end when his voice whispered a gentle greeting right next to her ear. indianna's
hands found the broader ones of her boyfriend’s and caressed his skin with the soothing
motions of her fingertips only for a brief moment before she spun around in his warming
embrace. “sam!” she cried happily, finally letting that silly grin loose as, for the first time
in months, she laid her sparkling eyes on her beau. “i’ve missed you so much.” maybe in
a different kind of relationship it would have come off needy and clingy when indi threw
her arms around sam’s neck and buried herself further into him. but this was not just any
old relationship, it wasn’t even a regular long distance relationship; the sixth year couple
attended schools twelve thousand miles apart. no one could blame indianna’s eagerness
with figures like that. the girl took a minute to absorb what she could of sam prince, how
he smelt, the warmth of his body pressed tight against her own and how much easier it
was to curl her arms around his broad shoulders when she was standing in the four inch
heels. she had waited so long for today and now that it was here indi knew it would flash
right before her eyes. so she was going to take the time and savour each moment, lock it
away securely in her mind for those days when the professors got a little too boring and
the classroom too cold. pulling back a fraction, the girl tilted her chin upwards to greet
sam more tenderly with her lips against the strong line of his jaw, the smile stuck on her
face all the while. “i think i drove audrey crazy talking about today.” indi’s eyes peeked
joyously, albeit a little shyly, into the wondrously deep blue of sam’s as one hand wound
absentmindedly in his hair and the other fingered the strap of the back pack slung over
his shoulders. only in the back of her mind did she wonder why he’d need such a thing.
​

 

[Sam Prince]

a n d y o u w i l l h o l d m y h e a r t

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INSIDE YOUR HAND - - -

his arms hugged her petite waist delicately, similiar to how her fingers stroked his skin. their
actions weren't forced, they weren't screaming for attention, they acted purely in a sense of
relief. that the two lovers were alongside one another again, after the months of waiting, the
long sleepless nights, and between their closely wound bodies, an intimacy burned. with only
a loose hold around his girlfriends waist, it easily enabled her to spin around and to face him,
which was something that he was hoping she would do. he reflected that smile that grew so
very rapidly on her face and what sam would have thought was impossible, his smile carried
on growing, so much so that it began prickling his cheek bones. but that small ounce of pain
was so worth being able to lay eyes on his girlfriend after all of those long, boring months of
waiting, anticipating. and to hear that indianna had missed him so sincerely was some what
like the cherry on top of a very, very, very delicious cake. but as she leaned up to him just a
small bit and placed her soft lips on his jawline, his head automatically tilted towards hers
with a sort of gentleness to his affection for her. however, her lips only pressed against his
skin for just a short moment before she pulled away, her hand now wound in his hair. sam
had to say, he loved when she did that, there was a sort of comfort to it, something that he
generally just felt while he was around indianna. her comment allowed a soft chuckle to
bellow from his chest, "i drove myself crazy, waiting for today." his eyes slowly studied her
flawless features before leaning down - just a little - for a long awaited kiss.

it was slow, tender, but perfect. finally forcing himself to pull away, he did but not without a
butterfly kiss on the tip of her nose. "oh by the way.." he said whilst drumming his fingertips
against her waist, "i've missed you too." there came that smile again, which was nothing new,
all that he seemed to do around indi was smile, but he couldn't help it. and his justification for
grinning like a fool the entire time was indianna. and he felt he couldn't argue with that. as
much as sam wanted to stay there in that embrace with indi for the rest of the day, he had a
plan arranged for them, and it had to be executed pretty soon. "i have a surprise." he blurted
out in a sort of random fashion, breaking that tender atomosphere that they were just sharing.
his eyes began to dance with excitement at the thought of it. it was going to be perfect. sam
made it his business that he wouldn't give away anything about the surprise to indi however,
and so he just pulled away from their embrace and took her hand. "follow me," he beamed
excitedly and pulled her onto to the street, into the flocks of students. his pace was quick, and
he choose his footing carefully, zipping in and out of groups of chattering students, all the while
glancing back over his shoulder at his girl every couple of seconds, just to make sure she was
still with him....but partially because it was hard to keep his eyes off her.​

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[Indianna Lee]

i can fly but i want his wings,
there was a certain something in the way that the corners of his mouth quirked upwards,
just in the breath before he laughed, that had the seventeen year old’s stomach flipping all
over the place. and then when sam did laugh and chuckled a rendition of the statement
she had made, indi’s own lips curved upwards into a graceful smile. she wanted absolutely
nothing more than to say that after these two years of knowing him and being his friend
she knew all these things, these little things about him. but indi had been quick to realise
that dating sam prince had shone a whole new perspective on quirks and habits, and the
things that had made her smile before all but left her giddy now. everything was so shiny
and new and exciting that it was still a little hard for her head to comprehend that yes, she
was dating the handsome young man with his arms slinked around her waist and that the
look he was giving her was one she knew well by now. her heart seemed to recognise it
too and fluttered dangerously against her chest and the breath she was holding on tight to
inside of it. her rich lashes flickered and her eyelids slid gently closed when sam had leant
in enough to feel the warmth that radiated from that butterfly-stirring face. then there, in
the middle of a bustling brightstone, she and sam locked lips so sweetly that her cheeks
were reddened with affection when they reluctantly broke from the kiss. if she could have
somehow captured this moment this beautiful moment between the couple and shown the
proof of it to her younger self then maybe her insecurities wouldn’t have been as great or
her hesitance as deep. but indianna wouldn’t take back any of her and sam’s relationship.
not the highs or the lows. despite it all, most likely because of it all, the pair were stuck like
the strongest of glue. with riley and falcon... internally the girl came to cringe, it was still
not what she’d like to think about when instead she could be basking in sam’s affections.

a giggling sigh was pulled from the seventeen year old when she realised that there were
still more of those to come. again her eyes fell shut as sam’s lips pursed against the very
tip of her nose. had any of audrey’s boyfriends ever been this sweet to her? what about
the brawny beauxbaton frenchmen in her classes? did they treat their snotty nosed dates
like this? of course not. it weren’t as if she was speaking from experience but from what
indi had observed in the days of her invisible silence at school, she could safely say that
sam was exceptionally considerate and she was just lucky enough exclusively deduce this
first hand. there was a cheeky gleam in her eyes, one that mockingly spoke “of course you
did” when he confessed that he had in fact missed her too. there was a certain curiosity in
her hands as they trailed down his chest and rubbed affectionately against the hardness of
his stomach. it wasn’t a conscious curiosity though because the nature of her affections
were all very absentminded as indi grinned up and into her beau’s blue eyes, losing traces
of herself there as she did so. neither could deny the incessant need to be touching in one
way or another. be it a simple brush of shoulders or through a deep and consuming kiss, it
mattered not. but either way she hoped this feeling would never end, it was far too good to
allow to slip through her fingers and so was sam. he and his charming smile and his ways
of making her laugh and those bluer than blue eyes and his... surprises? indianna leant as
far back as she could in his arms to attempt to pick apart what he had meant. but even as
she cocked an eyebrow and held half a smirk on her latina features, indianna couldn’t for
the life of her figure out what had those bright blues sparkling. “ooh what kind of surprise?”

but sam didn’t answer her question. instead he dropped his arms from around her cinched
waist, took her petite hand in his larger one and told her to follow him. indianna squinted
her eyes once again as if trying to solve him then and there but those eyes, as excited as
they were, kept everything a secret and left her to pick the way through the crowd. “sam!”
she cried jovially for the sheer suspense of it all and found that she had to skip every few
paces just to keep up with him. all the while as they darted through the stream of students,
their eyes meeting in a clash of chemistry often enough, all indi could think about, apart
from wondering what on earth the surprise was, was that her boyfriend had actually taken
the time to plan a surprise from her. there was almost a blush on her cheeks as even just
the thought of the gesture danced in her mind. he was so thoughtful, and romantically so.
how many girls could say that about their boyfriends? indianna was touched that she was
one of the very few. her impatience got the better of her soon enough though and the girl
skipped up to sam’s side and with the hand that was not holding his, gave his upper arm a
tight squeeze. “noooo i hate surprises, can’t you just tell me where we’re going?” but there
was a different story shining so obviously in her glittering green and gold eyes; she loved
surprises and she loved him for thinking to surprise her with one.
​

 

[Sam Prince]

a n d y o u w i l l h o l d m y h e a r t

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INSIDE YOUR HAND - - -

the crowd of students, families and almost everything in between seemed to have multiplied
in size since sam arrived in brighstone. to be honest, sam never witnessed such a surge of
people in the tiny village. of course, it was the early afternoon, so that had to be accounted
for, but besides that he couldn't figure out why this weekend was so popular as opposed to
the previous weekends the school had off. an amused childish thought entered sam's mind
as he accidently tipped into a younger boy - who incidentally was a hufflepuff like himself -
that if anymore people arrived in the village, there wouldn't be any room. of course it was
funny to the seventeen year old however, this whole situation was irrelevent to himself and
indi as sam's surprise involved taking her out of the main district completely. soon enough,
the pair managed to escape the maddening crowd as they reached the top of the street. it
wasn't like they were entirely alone, there was still a few groups of students, some in pairs,
others in groups of three or four, but it was nothing like the craziness from where they just
escaped. now with little to no crowd around them, indianna skipped up to his side once more,
and he turned his head to face her, with a bemused grin splashed across his face. indianna
seemed just as eager to find out the surprise as he was, to show her. but only show her.
looking ahead once more, sam pretended to weigh out the option of telling indi where he
was taking her, bobbing his head from side to side, pursing his lips all the while. until after a
minute or so he blurted out a blunt, "hmm ,no." his blue eyes darted immediately to indianna
again, a cheeky visage taking over all of his previous expressions. "we're almost there," he
added quickly, unable to not give anything away and with that gave her hand a quick squeeze.

even still, each and every touch sent his belly somersaulting, a feeling which usually wore off,
with any other girl but not with indi, well, at least not yet. with that thought, sam snuck another
glance at the girl who he was head over heels in love with, before quickly dropping his eyes to
the worn canvas of his converse and a small humble smile broke onto his lips. he placed his free
hand over her dainty one which was placed so lightly on his arm, and let it rest there for just a
couple of seconds. it was just a small touch, but still his heart was racing and his stomach, had
bellied over. he lead her to the gate of takarokaro park, only to stop abruptly and drop her hand
from his own. "eh..turn around." he told her alongside a brief wave of his hand, then opened
the gate of the park. before properly entering the quiet park his eyes darted over to indianna
once again, "and no, peeking." then, without further ado, sam walked the cobbled trail for the
vistors, searching for the perfect spot. the whole thing was beautifully scenic and having never
actually been in the park before, he was relieved that it wasn't some old rundown playground.
it was the complete opposite in fact, the grass was short and glowed a brilliant green contrasting
dramatically with the orange of the crispy fallen leaves and amongst all of this beauty was the
odd squirell darting up a tree from his presence, a pair of birds perched contently on one of the
long sturdy branch. perfect. the spot couldn't have been more perfect. it wasn't exactly at the
edge of the park nor was it at the centre, it was somewhere in between. it wasn't extremely
isolated from everyone else in the park but it wasn't like they would be disturbed either. and
with the surroundings of a few trees and a neatly kept flower bed, how could it not be perfect?

not wanting to keep indianna waiting for too long, he shrugged his bag off his shoulders and
knelt on the grass with it, only to quickly start pulling out the contents. a blanket, a flask of
hot chocolate, a bowl of fresh strawberries coated in chocolate and her favourite, sticky date
pudding. it just so happened the pair discussed their favourites in one of the many letters that
were sent back and forth from beauxbatons to hogwarts. when sam had requested the pudding
from the hogwarts elves they gave him a funny look but still managed to whip it up rather quickly.
sam unrolled the soft cotton blanket onto the grass and only had to pull a little at each of the
edges to get it perfect. he then placed the steel flask, the large bowl of strawberries and the
plastic container holding two sticky date puddings on of the corners of the blanket. he threw
his bag carelessly to the side and got up to fetch indianna. walking back wasn't half as long
and soon enough she was in his view again. he couldn't wait for her to see the surprise and
only hoped that she was still more or less oblivious to what it was that was going on. he stood
at the gate, his hand resting on the iron wrought, staring at the back of indianna's head and
he slowly smiled to himself. how lucky he was for everything to turn out as it did and he didn't
for one second take it all for granted. "ready for the surprise?" he chirped loudly.
​

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[Indianna Lee]

i can fly but i want his wings,
there was a scoff, playfully berating the nerve of her boyfriend, riding up indianna’s throat
as he denied her a piece of the puzzle. and when those cheeky, knowing blue eyes of his
flitted speedily towards her own, indianna allowed it to consume her; arch her brows, drop
her jaw and allow her to play along with the act he seemed intent on stirring. however her
own act didn’t take long to fall through, the seventeen year old nuzzled her face into sam’s
shoulder and muffled a giggle there. but only moments later, he gave up his. “we’re almost
there.” and there it was, the only clue she knew she would be squeezing from her beau.
in a playful show of dissatisfaction indianna heaved an exaggerated sigh and traded her
questions for affection as she the stroked pad of her thumb over and over sam’s knuckles.
there were excited tingles prickling the tips of her toes now that they found themselves in a
relatively secluded part of the village. there were still throngs of people every so often but
hey, they didn’t have to comb through the crowd anymore. something inside of her told the
seventeen year old to get excited, that when it came to sam she was yet to be anything
short of amazed. and if the extra bounce in his step or the gleam in his ocean blue irises
was anything to go by then she knew that this was true. the thought of it all played giddily
over in indi’s mind and kissing his shoulder where she had buried her face for a moment
was all she could do not to stop him on the side of the street and engage him in a kiss of
gratitude until both were breathless with exasperation.

indianna's hard-working heart began to drum heavier inside of her chest as she was led to
the gate of a park she had heard about and yet never set a foot into. the possibilities were
endless and were drawn into one much anticipated slide show in her mind as her mixed
irises cast their sparkling gaze out over the deep apple green grass and the crisp, golden
leaves that had fallen in an autumn cloak over the scenic picture. but despite the beautiful
sight, indianna was struggling to lift her eyes away from her boyfriend. her gaze was a mix
of many things as their eyes met – inquisitive, awed, excited, loving beyond all measure.
the fact that they were finally at the location of his much anticipated surprise was entirely
lost on the girl when she was still hung sweetly up on the fact that her boyfriend had taken
the initiative to make this gesture. she could have blurted out amidst all the excitement
and boiling energy then and there that she loved him. thankfully sam soon told her to turn
around, distracting indi from her overwhelming excitement (or perhaps just adding a whole
new dimension to it) and she did just that but not without an affectionate smile over at his
devilishly handsome face first. "and no, peeking." she squeezed her eyes tightly shut and
an impeccably huge grin dimpled her aching cheeks, and almost squealed out loud. “don’t
be too long!” she laughed after her boyfriend’s retreating footsteps. and so began the wait.

the impatience brewed uncontrollably within her and made each second seem like a whole
minute and each minute seemed to draw on for an hour. but, she noted as she took in to
account that she had essentially been watching the kettle boil, sam seemed to keep true
to her request and returned soon enough. without even seeing his face, indi could hear the
smile that echoed in his voice, he even sounded handsome. but what really got her were
the actual words that spilt from his lips. “of course!” she squealed and clapped her hands
together with excitement as she turned around to face sam and his awaited surprise. and
just like that the breath was knocked out of her. her pace was slow and steady, as if every
footstep absorbed a fragment of the picture in. and she advanced towards her boyfriend
and thus the picnic he had laid out for them with a hand clasped over her mouth in awe.
whoever said that romance was dead could not have been more wrong. because if they
had waddled all the way to takarokaro park, brightstone village, new zealand, they would
have found it alive and burning in the heart of sam prince. indianna’s eyes were as wide
and as sparkling as bambi’s when she reached her boyfriend. being that she was caught
speechless, she simply fished for his hand and curled her petite one around it. but the girl
need not have said anything at all, love and elation were etched across her exotic features
as she lead him slowly to the picnic rug. her boyfriend’s hand had replaced the one of her
own that had been clasped over her mouth, and in her grasp she held the back of it to her
lips and kissed the warm skin softly. “wow sam.” darting her eyes away from the rug they
had now reached at their feet, indianna allowed her gaze to find the shining of sam’s and
the intensity she discovered there almost robbed her of breath for a second time around. it
was electrical and powerful and unwavering, reminding the seventeen year old of the time
before they had dated when exchanges like these had dug the seeds of their relationship.

gracefully she knelt down and as she began to grow cosy on the picnic blanket, began to
feel the pull of a smile work its way back onto her awed and surprised face. no one had
ever made such a gesture for her before, indianna couldn’t even began to recount what it
felt like to finally have someone who was as thoughtful and as special as sam. the girl was
practically bursting as the seams with her love for him, she could feel the words and how
they tasted on her tongue but still there was an inch of her not yet ready to say them out
loud. “this is... so brilliant.” she grinned, still searching for her composure as he sat down
beside her. instinctively indi curled into him and gently kissed his cheek, still in awe over
the old-fashioned romance of it all. then for the first time her eyes, reflective of the bright
green of the grass, truly wandered over the things laid out over the picnic blanket. Seeing
something that made her heart skip an excited beat, indianna glanced closer and realised
that yes indeed, he had brought her sticky date pudding. her expression lit up like the light
of a firework, she hadn’t thought it possible for sam prince to get anymore thoughtful. but
there he had just gone and surprised her again. the press of her lips fell wide open as she
gazed up at sam before it spread into a smile somehow brighter than before. “te amo.” in
her spanish tongue, indianna leant up and whispered this into his ear. in one of the most
romantic languages in the world, indianna was officially in love. english would follow suit
but in the moment, the girl wanted nothing more than to express this emotion by other
means. and so she did, she moved her lips to the familiar warmth of his and kissed sam
as if nothing else in the world mattered. and when she was with him, nothing else in the
world did matter. most reluctantly indi parted her lips from his but with a delicate hand of
hers caressing his cheek, she leant into his opposite side and somehow plucked up the
courage to breathe “i love you” in to his other ear. anxiety began to pull at her heart strings
and a part of her didn’t want to move away to see his face in case she saw rejection there.
but somehow she found the courage to do that too and as she chewed nervously down on
her lip, gazed straight into the eyes of the wonderful young man who had stolen her heart.

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[Sam Prince]

a n d y o u w i l l h o l d m y h e a r t

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INSIDE YOUR HAND - - -

setting up a picnic wasn't something sam did for every girl, in fact he probably wouldn't even
have pulled such a romantic gesture if it wasn't for the fact that time with indianna was very,
very limited and that single day spent together, had to be extraordinarily special. but the look
in her eyes alone were enough to make him reconsider the amount of effort he would put into
each of their future dates. the way she had held his hand, kissed it and muttered two small words
that seemed to sum up a great portion of how she was feeling. and sam, for the first time, was
thankful that ava forced him to watch those silly drama's about snooty rich kids, romance was
just about the only thing those guys were good at. however, being humble as always, sam felt
quite bashful by the whole thing and so, in his usual signature way, scratched the back of his
neck as indianna took her wide eyes away from the rug, to his own. a modest smile stretched
the corner of his lips, but the simple sign of affection was dwarfed by the intensity that the pair
shared as they genuinely just looked at each other. a love like this was something sam hadn't
come across before, and sometimes he wondered wheter or not it was all real or wheter it was
similiar to those silly drama's that ava watched, where in the following weeks episode the pair
of lovers split (which usually left ava in tears). was it just infatuation, or was it love? there was
a line separating the two and sometimes, sam had to question which side of the line he was on.

still, sam didn't hesitate to join indianna on the rug, no seconds apart from each other had to be
spared, as he quickly sat down close to her. so close that if he in any way leaned into her, they
would in one way or another be touching. but there was no need to lean anywhere, as indianna,
it seemed craved to be near him, as much as he did to her. one of his hands were placed behind
indianna, tangled in the cool grass, it kept him balanced however as his other hand curled behind
her ear, and wound itself into her silk like raven curls. her delicate lips brushed against his cheek
once again and to no surprise a heavy thudding began deep in his chest. "i'm glad you like it." was
all that sam said, who had just about forgotten where exactly they were, he had become entirely
caught up in the moment and just indianna alone. as she pulled away a little, sam didn't dare take
his eyes from her. he watched as she glanced over the rug, as her eyes discovered her favourite
dessert and as they slowly looked back at him. breathtaking. utterly breathtaking. he couldn't tell
what made his moment so special in comparison to all those other wonderful moments they spent
together, maybe it was the picnic and the dreamlike atmosphere that surrounded him, or maybe
it was only different now, because of the love that grew so rapidly for indianna over the months
apart. the love that obviously began surfacing to a point where sam actually could utter those three
words, those eight letters, that he had never, ever spoken to another person in his lifetime.

"te amo," indianna spoke softly in that sexy foreign tongue of hers, that had actually made the rapid
thudding in his chest, freeze for just a second, only to have it jump back to its speedy pattern. sam
didn't exactly react to those two words. partially because he was preparing to say in return, those
three words but also because he didn't have a chance to. her lips were soon on his in what had
become one of their most intimate kisses. slowly his eyelids closed over his eyes, his hand moved
deeper into her hair, his tongue flicked against her lips and it was only as indi gradually pulled away
that sam had opened his eyes and let out a rasped breath. a slow moving hand traced down indi's
neck and stopped just at the nape of it, while her hand softly caressed the lightly stubbled skin of
his cheek. "i love you", came the three words that were breathed tenderly into his ear. the three words
that no one had ever spoken to him, the three words the played on his tongue as he stared into the
eyes of indianna, which had for some reason a look of doubt, anxiety perhaps as she waited for him
to react. there was no doubt anymore, which side of the line he was on, wheter this was real or not
and there wasn't a set of words that breezed so easily from his lips, "i love you, too." and there it was
for the first time in his life, he had told someone he loved them. and sam was glad that he waited for
this latino girl to come stumbling in his life with those golden green eyes, that miraculous smile, that
cheeky personality and who, took his heart by storm, who didn't cease to take control of his thoughts
and who had ultimately changed his entire life. his breathing had sped up as his heart had seemed to
have lost control, a tingle spread through his stomach and all sam could do to express some emotion
was smile. and through his smile, he dipped his head slightly to kiss her. well, merely peck at her lips
before he spoke again, "i love you, indianna." he couldn't help but say it again, it felt so perfect to
finally speak what he had been thinking for that past few months. to have some sort of explanation
for why he was acting like he had recently. he brought his hand back up to her cheek, where he tucked
it behind her ear, his thumb stroking her flawlessly soft skin and again, sam leaned down and pulled
at those lips of hers, in small quick kisses, until his lips settled into one passionate kiss. he knew there
was not a single moment in his life as special as this and not a single person more like a treasure, on
this planet, than indianna grace lee.​

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[Indianna Lee]

i can fly but i want his wings,
there were not many other phrases in the world that had been publicised, analysed and
scrutinised more than “i love you”. when to say it, how to say it, who to say it to. it seemed
to be the only thing that was making the world go round as it was in every gossip column,
at the centre of each new teenage drama that aired and tangled up in the discussions of
many. but for indianna grace lee it was the one thing that, albeit for a second, had made
her world come to an unnerving halt. in the heat of the moment, so close to sam that his
presence had surely thrown her into a state of intoxication, they had been the only three
words that had seemed like a worthy description of exactly what she was feeling. the very
same feelings that had caught her unknowingly square in the chest when their eyes had
first met, the very same feelings that were ebbing dangerously through her mind and heart
as she watched her boyfriend with wavering eyes. what if he wasn’t going to say... “i love
you, too.” with her lips parted in awe and an infinite sparkle in those two-toned irises of
hers, the seventeen year old had to stop her mind functioning just to catch a breath. sam
loved her too? her heart thudded against her chest, all but screaming its desires to leapt
on out of her. as wonderful as they had sounded falling from her own lips, they were just
that much better echoed from his. so much better in fact that she wanted to reach up and
brush her lips against his perfect smile and ask him in a cheeky murmur to repeat them.

before she could begin to crane her neck, sam had arched his, met her lips once sweetly
with his own and had spoken those precious words once more. indianna knew for a fact
that she wasn’t sam’s first girlfriend but now she wondered if she was his first love and if he
was feeling just as wonderfully out of body as her. on one hand indi couldn’t have possibly
been more frightened in her life, all the doing of her father of course and the love he had
turned upside down with her mother. but on the other hand, the heavier of the two, indi
had also never felt she belonged somewhere quite so much as she did there in sam’s love
and kisses. when she had been thirteen , the girl had been given a string of advice by her
mother, a rule that had stuck by her through all the years since, that “men could not be
trusted”. but like all good rules there were always exceptions and this one was right before
her eyes. he was brushing a piece of hair from her eyes, thumbing her cheek in the most
affectionate of ways and leaning in for another kiss. sam prince was the only exception.

between the short and quick sips at her lips indianna managed a shaky exhale, exhausted
and trembling already from the strength this newly confessed love had drained from her. it
felt good though, it felt right, like she could crawl right into sam’s arms after this and fall in
to a peaceful slumber as he held her tucked against his chest. but that was not going to
happen a) because they only had so much time, indianna wasn’t about to waste it, and b)
sleep was the last thing on her mind when sam’s lips did not break from hers but instead
delved deeper and deeper into a passionate kiss that somehow managed to top the last.
in fact indianna was sure that it would top every other kiss ever, this was their first kiss as
two people admittedly in love and as she leant further and further into her boyfriend, indi
didn’t ever want it to stop. so she kissed sam with all the feelings she felt for him that had
been bottled up and corked tight for the past three months. and amidst the loving tangle of
things where both of her hands had sifted into his shaggy brown hair, indianna felt nothing
short of an explosion of butterflies in her stomach when their tongues flicked against each
other’s. thank god the park was as quiet as it was and not full of ogling eyes like the main
part of the village had been. perhaps if it had been she would’ve given a second thought to
kissing sam the way that she was to show just how much she loved him. but it wasn’t and
before indi knew exactly what she was doing, she began to use his weight against him.

indianna lee was a petite little thing of only 5’2” but somehow, and probably by sam’s own
willingness, the girl had managed to push her boyfriend backwards until she was hovering
over him. “te amo samuel” she whispered again as their lips broke. “te amo.” if he didn’t
know what the rich, foreign words meant before indianna was almost certain that he would
now, especially by the look in her eyes when she said them. english, spanish, french – she
could work her multilingual tongue around those words forever, so long as she was saying
them to the blue-eyed boy before her. sam prince had her all but hypnotised, indi thought
to herself as the pad of her thumb brushed across the lips she had just been kissing with
all the tender affection in the world. and then she smiled, possibly the widest smile to ever
cross her expression before burying it into her boyfriend’s lips again as she pecked them
ever so softly. ugh, i don’t want to go back to france, the beauxbatons sixth year thought
sulkily but kept the damper of an emotion completely to herself as she leant across sam’s
chest to pull the bowl of chocolate-covered strawberries closer. there was no way that she
was going to spoil this moment between the young couple because after today, she would
treasure it forever. “hungry?” she grinned, picking out a ripe red strawberry with one hand
for sam to take whilst the other fell against his muscled torso and moved in gentle circles,
secretly admiring his fit physique. indianna grace lee was absolutely, positively certain that
nowhere in the world could make her as happy as she was right there in takarokaro park,
lying on a picnic rug with the one young man that had just told her he loved her.

sorry for the bit of a god-mod, louise
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