How to know you're in love.

Let's get straight to the point-

Love isn't easy.

Love can be subtle, it can be loud, it can be full of rebuttles.

But how do you know you've fallen deep?

Into the deepest crevices where you'd believe love couldn't reach.

How do you know it's more than fake?

How do you know that you're feelings aren't at stake?

Who is love and why do they know all my feelings I hid and tried to let go?

Why does my love follow, even the places love is aware it's much too dangerous to go?

How do I know I'm in love, not merely loving a person, but being in love, with them, not a one-way street, but a love that goes both ways.

You will feel a pressure in your chest.

A spiraling feeling in your stomach.

Hotness growing in your cheeks.

Eyelashes fluttering.

Voice falters and muttering.

Your heart will pound to the sound of their voice, or simply the mention of their name.

When someone brings them up, you have a lot to say.

You look for them in areas, you know they will not be, in the darkest places you search for thee.

Your pupils grow large when they look into your eyes.

You'd do about anything to stop them when they cry.

You try to fix their pain.

You say you love them, even if you know they won't say it back.

You tend to annoy them.

But only 'cause you care.

You would do about anything to be with them, to see them, to play with and/or braid their hair.

You're faccinated with their life, and how put together they seem.

You fall more in love with them every time they speak, anytime they smile, each time they whine at you like a child.

You adopt their habits.

You chase them like Alice following the white rabbit.

Giving them even the smallest glance, down into the rabbits hole you fall, discovering wonderland, a whole other land, with love you'd never knew before.

Ariah Christman