[She falls all the way onto her back, the mattress shifting under the weight as the longer strands of her hair fan out beneath her. Honestly, she was content with simply lying in bed with him, letting herself feel his arms around her while she worked through the thoughts she suffered with. Still suffers with...
Was.
But after these new discoveries, this step forward, it's hard not to be overcome with emotions like this. Ones that have her heart skipping beats as he looms above her looking like the god that he is. Ones that have her face flushed and her eyes burning with the threat of tears. Ones that make the ache in her chest run deeper, burn hotter. It's not as if she realized for the first time that she loves him, but she has realized just how much she does. How much she needs him.
How much she needed him back then...
They may never heal from these new regrets that they bear together. Learning that she had missed so many opportunities before, that he had waited and waited for her when she never came because she didn't even know... Learning that he still loved her the way she did him...
Yes, it's hard not to want to make up for that, too.
So, she reaches up to card her fingers through his hair and pull him down towards her, close enough that their lips only just touch.]
Well, I can certainly think of other knacks to practice instead...
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Was.
But after these new discoveries, this step forward, it's hard not to be overcome with emotions like this. Ones that have her heart skipping beats as he looms above her looking like the god that he is. Ones that have her face flushed and her eyes burning with the threat of tears. Ones that make the ache in her chest run deeper, burn hotter. It's not as if she realized for the first time that she loves him, but she has realized just how much she does. How much she needs him.
How much she needed him back then...
They may never heal from these new regrets that they bear together. Learning that she had missed so many opportunities before, that he had waited and waited for her when she never came because she didn't even know... Learning that he still loved her the way she did him...
Yes, it's hard not to want to make up for that, too.
So, she reaches up to card her fingers through his hair and pull him down towards her, close enough that their lips only just touch.]
Well, I can certainly think of other knacks to practice instead...