The run is more strenuous than you expected. You're struggling to keep up, but he's just plowing forward ahead of you on the trail, fast, confident, in control. There's a burning in your calves and quads, and your tongue is completely dry as your lungs wheeze labored air past it.
"Babe, hold on, wait--" you say, hunching over, grabbing your knees, gasping.
He laughs, breaking pace. "What, tired already? And I thought you were the one who did track in college."
You glare back at him, still sucking in oxygen like there isn't enough in the entire state park for the both of you. It's like he's barely broken a sweat. What the hell?
"Sprinting," you manage to get out, "Not long-distance." You sit down on the trunk of an enormous fallen redwood tree on the side of the trail.
He pulls the tube of his Camelbak off the hook and offers it to you. You grab the silicone tip and shove it into your mouth, guzzling the water voraciously as it hisses and gargles through the line.
"Mmm, I like the way you suck on that," he says. You drop the tube and throw it back at him, rolling your eyes.
"You would say something like that when I'm literally dying here."
He chuckles, a smug smirk on his face. "Always the drama queen."
You wipe the sweat from your face and take in the scenery. The air is cool and crisp and refreshing here amidst the redwoods. You can finally start to feel it wicking away the beads of perspiration. All around you is damp, packed earth on the trail blanketed with pine needles and fir cones. There's a bird chirping somewhere nearby, its calls piercing through the muffled backdrop of a waterfall's roar somewhere in the distance--
You notice his eyes are glued to your chest.
"What, why are you staring at me like that?"
"God, I fucking love it when you get all sweaty."
Warmth flushes over your face. Part of you wants to melt into the ground, part of you erupts into self-consciousness. Surely, your makeup is already messed up (and why did you even put it on in the first place? You knew you'd be running) and your hair must be frizzy in this humidity now even though it's in a pony, and you must already smell like shit even though you doubled up on deodorant, and it's just a sports bra and shorts, you're not even done up, and you're gross and have sweat lines and why can't you ever just turn off your mind and take a compliment, God, why? You shift your posture and cock your head at him.
"Really?"
"Yeah."
There's something about him, something about the firmness of his voice and the directness of his tone that awakens a kind of primal feminine ferocity in you. His eyes look over you, up and down. There's a salacious glint in that gaze, a devilish lust simmering beneath the surface. You can't take how he's looking at you, it'll only lead to one place...
"Don't... do that." Your eyes flicker to the ground, to his bare chest, to his muscled arms, to his dick beneath those loose running shorts (wouldn't it be nice if it got hard?), then back to the ground.
"Do what, tell my girlfriend how hot she is?"
That masculine aggression. Always so forward. A kind of bubbling giddiness rises in your stomach. You can't help but smile. The boy likes you, and it's the best feeling in the world.
"You're cute," you say, standing up and pecking him on the lips. "Okay, I think I've recovered. We can get going again." You turn to continue down the trail, but he puts his hands on your waist and pulls you back.
"I mean it, you know."
When he presses his lips against you this time, it's different, more intense, more sensual and deliberate. You soften completely. You can't help it. You're paralyzed to resist. You place a hand on his beating heart as his fingers traipse their way down your sides to grab your ass. Your lips are slippery over his as you kiss him back. When he grazes his tongue over your lower lip, it sends shock waves through you. There's something comforting and stimulating in his presence, a grounding kind of aura that makes you feel safe and secure and like everything will be okay so long as he is there to protect you and lead you and direct you and give you--
Panic jolts you out of the reverie. You pull back and look around paranoidly.
"Come on, Damien, we're in public, I--"
"I don't care." He pulls you back in, presses his body against yours, locking you in the embrace. You can feel him growing hard against you, and you can't help but like that in spite of yourself. "I want you," he growls with hot breath, nibbling on your ear. It tingles and raises goosebumps all over you as he continues to coo in your ear: "You know what? Fuck it. Let's do it. Right here. Right now."
Adrenaline attacks you. The prospect is wild, audacious, unhinged, really. A crazy risky thing.
"What, you're serious? Right now? What about all the people we passed back there?"