#excerptsbysarah

[iceddcoffeee]

in an ideal world im lying on my bed in my childhood home, watching my favourite show on netflix and you’re lying next to me and you ask me questions about it and i carelessly prop my head on your shoulder and it fits there perfectly, like two pieces of a puzzle. we’re not being practical about our careers and we’re not moving to big cities to prove to the world, nay, to ourselves, that we’re worth something. all our decisions are taken with love now. we let our pet bunny snuggle with us because that’s what love tells us to do. we make dinner at home instead of going to a fancy restaurant because we enjoy the mundanity of life. we don’t drink exotic coffee here, we only drink chai now, the low maintenance one, with ginger in it to make it taste a little lovelier than regular chai does. you wear grey sweatshirts a little more than you wear other colours because you know i love you in grey and i wear my hair in a messy bun instead of styling them to perfection because i know you admire a little messiness in me.

or

maybe we’re both working on the wall street, wearing our power suits and drinking coffee blacker than my perfectly finished black nail paint. and we’re hustling, grinding in two different skyscrapers, in our 40th floor corner offices and i get a facetime call from you because you had two minutes to spare between your meetings and i had my lunch break. i see your worn out yet lively face on the screen and i know it’s an ideal world too.

or

im struggling to climb uphill on a mountain and i can’t catch my breath and my hands and feet are red and swollen with the cold and im worried about my house rent which is due next week and you hold my hand to help me up and when your fingers tighten around mine i know i know i know its an ideal world.

or

im looking at the sky and im thinking about that time you drove me around our hometown and bought me my favourite flowers and i know we don’t talk anymore but then i see a picture of the sky on your instagram story and i know you’re watching the stars too and for that infinitely small moment, this is an ideal world too.

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