I remember it all very clearly, the taste of smoke constricting my lungs, screaming all around me, heat and the smell of burnt rubber, and then some on pulling me from the burning car. “Eli?” I said as I saw who pulled me from the car, “I just had to see you” he said but I collapsed in his arms unconscious. I woke up in a hospital bed with my family all around me and suddenly I remembered why my car had been burning, there had been a bombing on the Brooklyn Bridge and I had been tearfully driving from me and Eli’s apartment. Somehow he had found me and rescued me, we had been fighting about him not telling me that he had super powers. I remembered feeling betrayed and I still kind of hated him. The doctor walked in and parted my family members like the Red Sea, standing by a computer he looked at his clipboard and started talking. Looking at my parents he said “your daughter Dani has a mild case of smoke inhalation and 3 first degree burns.” One on her left shoulder and two on her right thigh, she can be out of here in approximately two and a half weeks and won’t need any surgery. We will supply you with pain killers and and burn cream for Dani, she will make a steady recovery that is all, feel free to mingle. Eli visited me every day and I was not confined to my bed but it still hurt to walk so he carried me around the hospital so I did not have to stare at a TV playing Nickelodeon all day. I had to admit I was still very much in love with him even if he was a supernatural being that just made him a super cool boyfriend. Three days before I was out of the hospital he came to me in my room and set a box of rocks on a chair up against the far wall and sat down next to me on my gurney. What he did next surprised me, he moved the box towards me with what I assumed were his super powers and opened it up. Then the rocks started floating out the box into the air circling around him and when he was finished they formed the words “I love you” then he kissed me a warm and passionate kiss that tasted like cinnamon rolls oh how he loved cinnamon rolls. “Look” he said “I’m sorry for not being straightforward with you about my powers I just didn’t want to lose you and when you left I almost did, can you please forgive me?” He asked but I already had a thousand times. When it was finally time for me to leave the hospital It was Eli who carried me out even though I did not need him to, when the doors opened in front of me were lots of floating rocks and they said will you marry me Dani?

Now five years later with 2 kids I still remember when we kissed on our wedding day, and yes it tasted like cinnamon rolls.