Aerin

I felt Harley leaning over me, and for a few seconds I was confused about how she had suddenly gotten to my side. In my mind, she and the others who’d been at the house had been at least half a block away just moments ago. And then suddenly her face was right next to mine. How could that be?

I could feel her breath on my ear. Her hands were seemingly all over me, brushing hair from my face, tenderly rubbing my back, grasping my shoulders as if preparing to help me stand, her warm touch communicating her care and concern.

Still on all fours on the rough cement of the sidewalk, I whipped my head up and looked at her, confused and despairing, and found her staring at me with alarm and concern. Our lips were inches apart.  My eyes dropped to fixate on her lips. Annie’s words were still ringing in my ears, and my mind was whirring in a thousand different directions.

Everything around us felt unreal, or else my immediate sensory perceptions had completely detached from reality so that everything seemed to be suspended unnaturally in time. The world was moving in slow motion; I was the only one functioning in normal speed. She bent forward and instinctively I met her halfway. Our lips met and the world and all of its problems receded. Not only was reality suspended; in our world, it was now only the two of us. The kiss reconnected us to our special reality – her kiss, our kiss, from the first one we’d shared on the beach, to the fervent ones we’d exchanged this morning up in the roof deck of her house, were like no other for me.

It was no different now. We forgot about pretending for others that there was nothing between us as we kissed. Her lips moved against mine seductively, and gently nudged my mouth open wider. I felt her tongue come out to tease my lips. Mine also came out seeking its partner, and slid alongside hers, rubbing against its delightful curves.

I couldn’t help it; I was helplessly addicted to her taste, and my lips and tongue were no longer mine to command. They had fallen fully under her spell.   We breathe raggedly in short bursts to help us remain barely conscious. It was impossible to breathe from our mouths because they were glued together, so our noses shared the thin air between our faces.