Page 111 of Clichés & Curses

I pulled back slightly, just enough so I could see his face.

He told me again, this time out loud. ‘I love you, Clara.’

I pressed my lips against his and whispered, ‘I love you too, Colton,’ meaning each word wholeheartedly, with every inch of me.

Falling in love can be scary.

Especially since you don’t know what lies ahead.

But if you look at it a bit closer, you realize that falling in love is a series of steps—a series of choices that you have to make.

The choice to open your heart to someone, the choice of who to let into it, and ultimately, it’s the choice to keep falling in love with the same person every single day. Through all the good days and the bad days.

So yes, falling in love can be scary. But with each moment that I get to spend with Colton, I learn that falling in love can also be easy when you choose the right person to do it with.

And with Colton’s arms wrapped around me, standing here in my college apartment’s living room, I couldn’t be happier with the choice I’d made. My heart filled with so much happiness that this boy never fails to bring me each day.

Even if he is a cliché love interest and the curse might be real, I’m choosing to embrace it.

Yesterday, today, and forever.

And you can’t forget, in every fairytale story that starts with a curse, it always ends with the curse getting broken.

And who knows? Maybe we’ll be the ones to break it.

Well, that’s what I’m choosing to believe in.