"Tess, are you okay? You haven't said anything for like ten minutes."

"I'm okay," I reply quietly.

"Do you... do you regret what we just did?" Hardin asks sadly.

"Of course not, Hardin. I was... Well, I was just thinking about our first time."

"Oh."

"Hardin, I'm so sorry for what happened with my mother that night. I know it ruined your life, too. I've thought about that moment a lot over the last four years and how different everything could have been for us."

"Tessa, that wasn't your fault."

"It was. If I hadn't been with you and made you fall in love with me, then when my mother got me kicked out of college it wouldn't have left you heartbroken. Instead of spending the last four years sad and alone, you could have been happy with someone who loved you."

"Tessa, it wouldn't have mattered either way. If your mother tore us apart I would have been unhappy and if I had never met you I would have been unhappy. The only way I'm ever going to be happy is if I get to hold you safely in my arms every night for the rest of my life," Hardin explains and then places a kiss on my forehead.

"Then I guess you're always going to be unhappy." I sigh. "You have to leave in the morning and we'll both be alone again."

"We don't have to be. What if I move here?"

I immediately sit up in bed and look at Hardin. "You want to move here?"

"If that's the only way I can be with you, of course I'd move here. I'd move Heaven and earth just to be with you again, Tessa."

"I don't know what to say." I'm left speechless by Hardin's words, but I also feel filled with hope for our relationship and for what the future holds for both of us for the first time in four years.

"You could say that's something you want."

"Of course I want you to move here and for us to be together again! But Hardin, it's not fair that you have to turn your entire life upside down for me."

"Tessa, you are my life."

"You're actually serious?"

"Yes."

I feel a smile start to take over my face. "Okay!" I squeal, then straddle Hardin's lap before smothering him with kisses.

"Okay." He chuckles and I lie back down beside him. He wraps his arm around me again. "So, it's decided. I'll move here."

"Mmm-hmm," I hum.

"Then I'll marry you and impregnate you and you'll give me lots of babies. We'll grow old and grey together and we'll be the happiest two people in the entire world."

"Hardin!" I giggle. "Let's just start with you moving here, Mr. Scott."

"I love you, baby."

"I love you, Hardin."

Hardin flips himself so that he's hovering over me and starts to kiss that spot just under my ear that he knows I love so much.

"Hardin! What are you doing?" I laugh.

"I have four years to make up for." He smirks.

Within seconds, we are lost in each other as Hardin makes love to me all over again and I can't help but feel like I'm still that girl in college who was young and in love with the moody boy with tattoos, skinny jeans and a leather jacket who always loved me with his whole heart.