This is a small excerpt taken from a much longer story I have written and was considering uploading. I really love to write, feedback welcome, thank you!
Jon
"Well... this doesn't have to be a big deal."
"Feels like a pretty big deal to me." I was sitting on her bed and I suddenly regretted answering this evening's knocks.
"Is it crass to say this wouldn't be a really big deal, at least, to me?" Her eyes flashed with an emotion that I couldn't place, then it was gone.
"Okay..." I said.
"I'm not trying to be insensitive. I like you," she shrugged nonchalantly, "I like your body. I think you like mine, why can't we just have a good time together?"
"Well, you have to agree it's more than that, this is more... It's more than a one time fling with someone you will never see again, you have to admit that."
"I can... But it doesn't have to change anything unless we let it." She opened her eyes to me, as if saying, 'and we would never do that!'
I sat quietly on her bed with my hands in my lap.
"Life can be so short, I'd hate to waste this moment because you fear change... or progression... or honesty," she raised her arms as she said this, like a little interpreted dance but I frowned.
"You think I fear those things?"
"Do you?" Now she sat still, quiet, hands on her knees.
And I didn't want to admit it, I would have liked to think she was wrong, but again she proved to know things about me that I had yet to realize in myself.
"I don't want to fear those things," I muttered to the ground.
"Then kiss me," she said, and I looked up at her face.
But I hesitated and she added, "no one will ever know."
And I released a little air and closed my eyes. I imagine my hands on her face, but it felt too sudden, too real, and I realized just how scared I actually felt.
I looked at her, again, into her bottomless eyes of brilliant blue, a window into a crisp spring morning, a window into a soul so fearless spirited, I long to mirror her ways. I ached to mimic her tenacity. I needed to be brave in this moment, to prove to myself and to her I was alive- that I existed and was too allowed to make a choice. That I didn't have to choose to run, but that I could decide to stay.
Maisy
I knew if I could say the words, then he would stay, I knew he would, and so I said them.
"I've tried to ignore it, tried to make it stop, but it's no use... I need you, Jon... Please," I pleaded as I stroked the top of his hand, his knee, his shoulder as he looked right at me. At me and into my eyes, deeply into places I often kept closed. Down within, passed doors he demanded me to open, and I obeyed, handing over whatever he needed, whatever access was required for him to say yes was the access I granted as I waited with my hands on his arm.
He grabbed my knees, which were bare under my shorts, and stroked their soft inner flesh with his thumbs as I exhaled into a hard stirring within my core. He sighed a release of breath from deep in his throat, making my heart pound.