Being Kalli(85)

Nate blinks, smiles and then stops as if he’s been caught out in a test. He leans down and pecks a kiss on my lips. When he sees me still waiting, he gets it, and it’s like this big warm light bulb is heating him from inside his heart, out. Last is the elation on his face.

“Really?” He smiles bigger. “Kall Bell, I love you. So much.”

“I’m sorry it took so long, but I’m never going away.”

He lays his head down and we lie tangled in each other for the rest of that day, watching Big Bang Theory, fighting spoon wars to eat ice cream from the tub, and me happy being this new-found Kalli.