My Heart's Scar

He stares at the tree and I come up behind him.
"So…" I whisper, "You're an Orphan now. Officially."
He nods and doesn't turn around.
"I know how you feel. I still feel like that even to this day." I put my hand on his shoulder to calm him down. He turns around and stares into my eyes.
"I've been through a lot of things, and just about all of them have left me something to remember it from…" he looks down and pulls up his sleeves, revealing dark lines across his wrists, forever a reminder of the first time somebody ever "tortured" him. He has many scars from battle wounds that he rarely ever shows anybody. We'd been through some dark times.
I feel like he doesn't understand that the pain is shared, so I show him my greatest scar. The one in my heart, whenever he's hurt. I do this simply by kissing him.
I'd never kissed Lewis Grant… ever, and honestly, it was the best thing I'd ever done. The two of us had been by each other's side through thick and thin, an unsaid pledge from the moment we had met, that night in the prison cell. And even now, we weren't truly free, but I've always known that I could go on with him by my side.
I remove my lips from his and he smiles, the smile that had comforted that night in prison, the smile that had made me laugh every time he'd joke, and the smile now that made my heart soar.
"That was…" Lew starts, gazing at me again, "Great…"
I blush, and back away. This has got to be the moment I've been waiting for my whole life. And it is.
Lew takes me by the hand and his cerulean-green eyes light up my heart.
"Harriet Kanton, we've been through more together than anybody ever has. I know we're still young, and we're not in the best situation for romance, but… will you go out with me?" he says sweetly and I nod repeatedly until I can force a sound from my mouth.
"Yes!" I bubble and I throw my arms around him. Finally, after all this time, we are officially united. The times I've had with him, the emotions I've felt with him all paid off. Because now, I, Harriet Julia Kanton, am now dating the love of my life, Lewis Andrew Grant, and that just puts all of my troubles behind me.
"I love you." He murmurs in my ear and I almost faint.
"You know what? So do I!" I laugh and we pull apart, still hand in hand. We stare at each other for a while, not really knowing or caring what's going on farther away. And I decide that I shouldn't waste another chance.
So I kiss him again. And we leave the clearing, hands intertwined, ready to face what the rest of our life had to offer. Together. As one.