"Hey Jack" she said, biting her bottom lip. She didn't know what to say. To her her  feelings were so obvious, as if they were standing out in a crowd waving their arms and shouting:
"LOOK AT ME! I'M IN LOVE WITH JACK HARRMANN!" She might as well just say it now, although it would make her sound all the more crazier.
He was looking at her with a confused expression on his face.
"Are you okay Ara, you're lip is bleeding!" Subconsciously she could taste the metallic taste of blood on her tongue, she had bitten her lip too hard. Nervously she licked the wound, cleaning the blood away, but only to feel it weep out again.
Jack sighed at her.
"Come here." He was walking towards her, reaching out for something in his pocket. Pulling it out it revealed to be a tissue. Jack, bent over her, was dabbing her lip with the tissue, his eyes fixed on her lip.
Self consciously she laughed at herself, trying to lift the mood. Without breaking his gaze on what he was doing, Jack questioned her about what she was laughing at.
"Oh you know, what we are doing right now and how stupid and reckless we are being." For a moment Jack paused and looked up into her eyes.
"Why do you think that?" Ara looked up at him and raised her eyebrows.
"Well apart from the fact that we are probably breaking every law there is.." she started. Jack backed away from her, dropping the tissue covered in blood.
He had his hands on his neck, head bent back, a sign of agitation. She could hear him murmuring to himself as he paced around the room. No words could be picked up but it was clear that he was panicking. She got up from the sofa and walked up towards him.
"Hey, Jack, calm down." A cold glare answered her, with it following cold words.
"Calm down? We're breaking the law, punishable by death in our camp, and you are telling me to calm down?"
This wasn't him. This wasn't the boy who was calm about everything. He had changed a lot more than she had anticipated. Again he was talking to himself, faster and faster.
"Jake!" Ara put her hands on either side of his face.

Her small hands were smooth to his skin. Lady's hands. Except these were her hands. Hands he used to crave for when he was a younger man.. Hands that he still craves for. And they were on his face, her thumbs stroking his cheeks and her fingers curling up. He closed his eyes and focused on the feeling.
"Jake" she said again.
She was calling him by his real name. He used to hate it, and whenever someone called him by that name he would get mad. But when she said it.. It felt special. It felt right. It was right.
Slowly he opened his eyes again to look into her emerald green. They were extraordinary eyes. Green with flakes if auburn and gold. It reminded him of a summer turning into autumn, when the trees were still mainly green but a few leaves were turning orange, getting ready to fall.
"Aria" he whispered. This was right. They weren't two soldiers in a war, they were two kids in love, that was assuming she even does love him.
He raised his hands to tuck a lock of her hair that had escaped from the ponytail behind her ear. It hung there loosely, after he did this he rested his hands on her shoulders. Small details like escaping strands of hair were important to Jack, everything about her was fascinating, even her nose that peaked up a little bit. And her lips, smooth and perfect in the light. Her lips...

He was looking at her lips now. She licked them nervously, tasting the minimal amount of lipstick she had put on earlier. Their faces were inches apart. Just now she realized they had been edging, slowly, to each other.
What are we doing?
Just kiss him.
This isn't right..
It's how you feel, it should be right.
Dang why are you so persuading...
At last, not being able to hold back anymore, Ara went onto her tiptoes and tried to reach his lips, but her small height failed her and his lips where just too high for her to reach.
He chuckled.
"You alright down there" he whispered. She smiled up at him.
"Damn genes letting me down." He laughed again, his voice singing with happiness and love.
"Let me help you."
And finally her lips was in contact with the thing they had longed for for a very long time; Jake.