I couldn't remember how long I'd been here. I was melting. The more I tried to fight against my mind and remember the less I knew. I was safe, I was warm, but how did I get here? How long had I been here? My eyes bounced back and forth like a metronome keeping rhythm and swaying consistently. His eyes were so pretty. Back and forth back and forth. I stared deep into his eyes. Eyelids feeling sleepy now. Tired from this fluttering unending dance. I was lost in his green eyes. Green but not like a forest, more like a meadow. Like warm sun in nature, like the smell of summertime, I could almost see the rays of light, of the sun washing over bright green and specks of brown. He kept me locked in.
His eyes stopped moving. He stared straight forward, never breaking eye contact. We started in this childlike contest. I didn't want to be the first to blink. But even that made my eyes tired. And he sensed it, jumped right back into his pattern of looking into one eye, then jumping to the next. Never letting me break focus, never letting me look away. Always looking as deeply into his gaze as possible. My vision blurred slightly from the eye fatigue. I saw the crease of his eyes as he smiled. He knew it was working. I couldn't hide my pride. I couldn't pretend that his hold on me wasn't inescapable.