We were in the hotel room. You know the one in the corner farthest from the elevator. I was sitting at the edge of the bed and you were on a chair. The conversation kept dying out and we were just awkwardly trying so hard to not go where we both wanted to go.
And it was dark outside, the sky had dimmed slowly while we were talking and we didn't notice it. The room was now lit solely by the light shining from the street outside. The sounds from outside were muffled and it felt like we were alone in our own world. Our world was quiet and still and tense.
I couldn't see your face in the dark but it didn't matter because I knew how you were looking at me, watching me. I was struggling to breath calmly now, I could feel the same tension in my chest that I knew you had in yours. Then you were rubbing your thumb on your palm in an insistent manner and there was another awkward silence as you stared at your hands. You muttered something under your breath.
As I asked you what you had said I watched you stand and take a step over to the bed in front of me and in the same movement with a hand under my chin and on the small of my back pulled me up to you. I felt the heat from your hand seep through my shirt into my back, a slow fire burning into my skin. You tilted my head up and you kissed me. It felt like I had been waiting my whole life for that kiss and that it would never end. I didn't want it to.