Last night,
Luke thought.
One more night is all we get.
He lied in bed, gripping the shoulder of Bella warmly. He willed as best he could to transfer his heat to her, knowing how utterly ridiculous it was.
I guess that's just the stupid stuff you do when you love someone this much
, he convinced himself many times before. At night, Bella frequently needed a sweater, jacket, blanket, pants, socks, or whatever else might hinder the warmth from escaping her body. This was just such a night.
However, they had been in the center of the bed, wrapped around each other, for quite some time. Distracting himself from more sobering thoughts, Luke took to keeping track of the time. At least an hour and a half passed. Over that time, Bella must have gotten warm because she had shed a beanie, a sweater, and her pants, leaving her in socks that reached halfway up her shins, seamless, dark-blue underwear, and a dark green tank top.
Luke adored the way this particular top formed around her chest and waist until scrunching up just above her hips. The neck of it also hung low, giving him unfettered visual access to her ample cleavage. In this position, with Bella's bare thigh stretching across his body and her body pressed up against his, the view was particularly alluring.
His bicep, where her head rested, was wet with her tears from not 10 minutes ago. With the opposite arm, Luke caressed her hair with a firm but gentle hand that said, "Everything is going to be alright."
Luke would leave town to return to school the following day. They both knew that they would rise early to ship him off; they both knew this wouldn't make it any easier to fall asleep. Every night before a departure, Luke couldn't help but hold Bella tight and stay awake as long as possible for a few extra moments with her, and Bella couldn't help but imagine the mammoth-sized hole in her life once he left. Tears came with the territory of a long-distance relationship. They both knew this too. And time only made it worse.
As he had done so many times already that evening, Luke pivoted his head to glance a kiss off the top of Bella's head. Every time he did, he was smothered by her hair, and he loved it. That night, she hadn't put it up. When she stood, it hung down to the bottoms of her shoulder blades. It was straight and jet black. Whenever she let it down like this, Luke couldn't help but notice the cute way that her eyes appeared darker. Typically, her eyes were two jade stones staring back at him, but that night, their dark color matched her hair.
Luke retreated from his short kiss, then quickly returned for a couple more. She looked up at him with a dried tear on her cheek. He licked his lips covertly and leaned in for an awkward sideways kiss. Their lips gently congregated for some time, almost as if slowly exchanging secrets with one another that the ears couldn't hear. Luke realized he failed at his time keeping. He looked at the clock and estimated it had been about 60 seconds.
Luke now leaned over her slightly. Bella's head reached as far as it could, begging for more. He used his free hand to smooth some of the hair out of her face before resting the hand on her cheek. He granted her wish with another series of kisses that were deeper than before. At some point, Luke realized that her hand had found his hips. He swung himself on top of her such that he loomed over with his torso between her thighs.
"I'm going to miss you so much," Bella croaked. From crying and not speaking for so long, her voice sounded incredibly unsexy. Luke didn't seem to care. He returned the sentiment in a similarly raspy voice. It was strange. When Luke's voice was like this, it sounded deeper and sexier to her.
Bella's hands both wrapped around him and dug underneath his shirt. She clawed and scratched his back as she reintroduced Luke's lips to her tongue. Her heart and genitals beat off the rhythm from one another. It felt as though her heart pounded so furiously that the shock waves could be felt down to her crotch. With every thump, she could feel her underwear getting colder.
Luke's hand grasped her waist as their faces continued to tango. Bella knew the order of things. He often liked to (not so) slyly maneuver his hands all around her torso until they landed on what they were truly after: her breasts.
Bella didn't have the patience for that.
She stopped him and wiggled her way out of her shirt, revealing a mountainous chest with pointed nipples. She was desperate for Luke to warm them up with his hands. Over the years, Luke had applauded her breasts time and time again for the way they hardly flattened when she lay on her back. His eyes widened. If they were strangers walking past each other on the street, she would've slapped him.
But this was Luke.
The animalistic nature of his gaze when it settled on her tits turned her on. This particular time, it sent a shiver through her. When they were apart, she sometimes let herself cry for a bit to get her emotions out. She missed him fiercely. If the mood happened to strike her, she would occasionally spend some of these trying moments wishing Luke was right there with her and she had her shirt off. That laser-focused look, although usually brief, made her feel so desired. So sexy. So loved.
Secretly, Bella wished he could just stay there a little longer and loathed him for moving. Forgiveness washed over her when his mouth met her nipple. Luke used his tongue to saturate one breast, and the other he gripped and squeezed so powerfully it made her back arc a bit; at least, she arced as much as she could with him pressed on top of her.
He pressed further into her, shifting his mouth's attention to her other nipple. It was then that Bella noticed how hard he was. When that part of his jeans touched her, it didn't feel like the softer exterior of a thigh or the curvature of his hips; it felt more like a large stone that someone had plastered in denim. She wanted to get in there.
Luke could feel himself getting carried away. He never liked when he got like this, but it was practically instinctual. The soft, almost silent moans forcing out of Bella made it even harder. He decided to allow his subconscious to take over for a little longer, continuing to suck at her nipples. They fit so perfectly. He man-handled a breast. He wrapped his whole mouth around it, taking in as much as he could. He inhaled through his mouth. Hard. Bella's gasp told him he was doing it right. His tongue slid along her tit many times over from inside his gaping jaw. Eventually, he retracted, clamping down his jaw a bit at the end to give her areola a small sting.
Bella yelped slightly, but when Luke locked eyes with her, her small heaves were coming through a grin that looked so genuine and alluring that he wished it would get stuck there. The eye contact was brief because he knew he had his fun for the time being. His lips went back to work, this time leaving strategic wet spots around the breasts and up to the collar.
He took his time there, violently attacking the base of her neck. Bella liked to tell him he had a talent for giving hickies. His attempts briefly softened as he realized he wouldn't be able to see any hickey on her for several months after this. Determination flooded his heart. If it was going to be months before seeing her, he would just have to give her a hickey that lasted for that long.
Luke's biting and sucking at her neck took Bella's breath away. Whatever he was doing right now was exactly what she needed... and also not what she ultimately wanted.
In the chaos of their writhing bodies and her moans--moans that only got louder when she tried to suppress them--Bella slithered her hands down their stomachs, stopping at his belt. As Luke moved onto another vulnerable part of her neck, she slid the belt's strap free from the oppressive loop. However, even the loop was no match for the buckle. The buckle acted as some sort of lock to the treasure inside.
Bella lurched and squealed sharply.
"I'm sorry! Are you okay?" Luke's words were fast and controlled. His whole body went stiff. The needles she felt in her neck at the spot he was sucking at felt stronger than she believed they had ever felt before. He was insatiable tonight.
Bella closed her eyes and laid her head back on the bed. "Fuck, that felt good."
The silence was explosive. It lasted a small fraction of a second, but in that amount of time, the sexual energy boomed in the room, sending Luke back to work along her neck and Bella into a frenzy to get his pants off.
Luke was making it around the side of her neck, pushing her hair away as he did. She didn't know whether or not she wanted him to get to her ear. She knew that it would make her insides liquify with pleasure, but she also knew there was a possibility of it sending her into an unhinged fit of euphoria.