i was on the bus, head on your shoulder, hands on your lap. it was the end of a long day at work and all i wanted to do was to sleep. your fingers started tracing outlines at the back of my hand. 

you checked if i was awake.
i pretended to be asleep.

i then realised that those outlines werent just random strokes, they were letters. words.

"hello," you wrote.

a few letters here and there that i couldnt string, and then it hit me -

"ich liebe dich"

oh.

wow.