"Do you like it?" He asked me, and his hands rubbed my arms. I could finally feel the tightness in my chest release.

"I love it." I breathed out, and I finally started crying.

"I'm not going to ask you to answer right now." He told me, and took the ring from me. "I was hoping to surprise you over a nice dinner, but I don't think you're in the mood for that now."

"I'm sorry." I told him.

"For what?" He asked me, and cupped my cheek in his hand. "You didn't do this. Don't blame yourself, I wont let you." He told me, and wiped at my tears.

"I don't know what I did, I don't know why this happened." I said, and I felt like I couldn't breath.

"Shh." He breathed and pulled me into his chest. "You didn't do anything wrong. You've been reading those books, you've been doing everything right."

"Then why?" I asked. But how could I ask him that? He wouldn't know.

"I don't know." He told me, and pulled me into his lap. I laid my head on his chest, and I could hear his heartbeat. It was beating a little fast, due to the both of us getting upset and panicking. "But, I do believe that some things are meant to happen."

"Okay." I laughed and cried at the same time.

"I'm serious." He told me. "As much as we wish things didn't happen, or even the opposite. I think things happen for some reason. We'll probably never know why, but all we can do is accept it."

"I don't want to accept this." I said, and Kiego started rocking me back and forth as he rested his head on mine.

"You don't have to right now." He whispered to me. "You can grieve for a while, but after that while, you have to get back up and keep moving. Maybe the universe is trying to tell us we're not ready for a baby yet. We're both really young, and we're both really busy with hero work right now. Maybe, the universe wants us to focus on getting even more ready for what's to come."

"Or maybe the universe just sucks." I said, and he laughed.

"Right now yeah." He agreed with me. "Maybe the universe is getting us ready to be married, or maybe it wants us to think about adopting a child. Which I think we should hold off on, if we do that. But no matter what, I think the universe will make it up to you some day."

"I hope so." I said, and sniffed. "Otherwise I'll kick it's ass."

"I know you will." Kiego told me, and laughed some more. "Everything will be better some day." I didn't say anything, and just nodded. I know he was right for the most part. "Are you hungry?"

"A little." I told him.

"Wait here, I'll get you a plate and we can stay up and watch movies." He told me, and started getting out of bed. "And I'll take tomorrow off, so that it can just be you and me. How does that sound?"

"Great." I said and I could feel a few more tears fall down my face. Kiego smiled and wiped them away before walking out of the room.

I got out of bed and changed into some of his clothes. I wanted all of him right now. As much of him touching and holding me. I hugged myself as I stood in our closet, and smelled his shirt. Even though we did our laundry together, his shirts always smelled more like him than the soap.

"Love bird?" Kiego asked as he wrapped his arms around me. I turned around in his arms and looked up at him. I cupped his face between my hands, and stared at him. I leaned in and kissed him on the lips. He held me closely to him, and I didn't ever want to let go.

I pulled away from him and rested my forehead against his as I breathed. We stood there swaying slightly together in the closet. He didn't say anything as his hands wrapped around the back of my thighs and picked me up.

I wrapped my legs around his hips and let him carry me to the bed. Kiego crawled onto the bed but I didn't let him. He handed me a plate, and put on a movie.

We both ate, while I didn't actually eat much. After a while of me pushing my food around on my plate, Kiego took it away from me and set it to the side. He turned me slightly to the side so that he could hold me like a baby in his lap.

"I love you baby bird." He said into my hair. I hugged him and we laid down, letting the movie play in the background. His arms around me pulled him down onto his chest, and the feeling of his wings around both of us made it even more comforting.

"Kiego?" I said.

"Yes my dove?" He asked me, and I sighed at the feeling of his hand running through my hair.

"I want to say yes." I told him. After he didn't say anything for a minute I moved my head to look at him. He was already smiling down at me.

"You can say yes when you're ready though." He told me, and kissed my forehead. "But thank you for the heads up baby bird."

"You're welcome." I told him, and we laughed a little. Laying down and resting my head on his arm while facing him, was such a nice position.

My eyes were getting heavy from all of the crying I did. So closing my eyes stung for a bit, but felt better after a couple of moments.

I'm really hoping that's how this goes. That I hurt and sting for only a couple of moments, before getting back up and pushing forward.

I hope that's how it is, for Kiego's sake.

"Baby Bird, you can take your time." He whispered in my ear. I wanted to open my eyes and look at him, but my eyes stung too much to look. So I just had to invision him in front of me. Laying down with me, hold me close. His wings being the only blanket we ever need. "Getting through this, or anything else that's trying to hit you while you're down. I'll be by your side the whole time."

"I love you." I whispered to him, letting him know that I heard his promise.

"I love you more, Kid." He told me and I felt his arms hold me tighter. "I'm never going to let you go." He hummed to me, and he started humming our song. I smiled, and hummed along with him quietly. And damn if there was a heaven on earth, this would be it.