"Okay okay, I will do it. Just for you babe!" types Susan into her phone trying to stifle a smile as she hits the send button.
It's been a hard couple of months for Brad who has had to stay away from the one thing he cares about the most in the world, Ringo's; a local Pizzeria which he loved to frequent, and his second most favorite thing in the world, spending time with Suze. He always loved to tease her by bringing that up whenever he could. What they both shared was beyond such adolescent tiffs, and Brad had always been quick to credit his Suze for being the mature one. If Susan was asked how she'd spent the last couple of months, she wouldn't have been able to recollect in all probability. They went past her in a flash, with her trying to constantly overload herself with her work as she tried to leave no second unplanned, fearful of missing Brad if she was free, who was away on work himself. She had always been afraid of how attached she was to him, for as long as she could remember, but she chose to not face those fears this time, like always, willfully pushing herself to the limit to numb herself to everything else.
Brad, on the other hand, has had a miserable couple of months too but he lived through his misery, going into his cocoon at every thought of her smile and almost crying himself to sleep when he couldn't bear the intimidating thought of all those unending miles separating them. He missed her so much that he could feel in his heart every inch of every mile that cruelly stood between them. It was a weird self-gratifying guilty pleasure of his, to suffer through how much he missed her. He reasoned albeit foolishly, that the more he missed her, the more he'd wait for every excruciating second to pass, making the moment of finally seeing the apple of his eye seem sweet like no other.
The moment that the both of them had been waiting for so long had finally come and Brad was growing more and more desperate to have the woman of his dreams in his arms as soon as he could. As he walked down the familiar path through the narrow aisle leading up to the front door of their cozy flat, he gave a smile to himself, realizing the resemblance in how he couldn't stop smiling back when his teenage self walked up to ask the mesmerizing new girl, out for a cup of coffee for the first time all those years ago. He couldn't help but smile embarrassedly, remembering how he messed it up by spilling hot coffee all over himself in a comedy of errors. Recounting that memory, he thanks his stars once again that the new girl decided to give him another chance.
"Suze, babe! You home?" he calls out as his voice echoes through the deserted aisle while he wonders where she must've been. He swings his backpack around and tries to shuffle through its contents searching for the keys to the door. Fumbling a bit, quite uncharacteristic for the sporty guy that he is, he unlocks the door and steps inside, taking a long breath quite having missed their home. The quarterback closes the door behind him and continues to call her name out as he goes from room to room in search of the center of his world, his words hanging in the air eager for a reply.
"𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘦𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘢𝘺𝘴, 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘩𝘢𝘢𝘢𝘯𝘥," is all that Susan can hear right now, as Ed Sheeran croons his heart out in her airpods as she chops some veggies trying to prepare something for Brad who told her that he'd be home by nightfall, careful not to cut herself, never quite having been the master chef. She feels a firm palm grab the small curve of her waist bared through her cute crop top, without any warning and she instantaneously feels her heart skip a beat or two. Before she can recover, she feels another hand carefully take her hair to one side to expose the beautiful nape of her neck as she feels those familiar lips start to slowly leave kisses down her neck and on her shoulders.
As she exhales deeply, she senses that they are not as arbitrary as they've seemed in the beginning, she notices that they're following a pre-meditated path right down the side of her neck, alternating between each side as he goes higher and higher up her neck, both the palms now calling the curves of her waist their home, as they hold it firm as if they belonged there like it was their natural habitat. The lips leaving all those kisses reach her ears as she grabs onto the kitchen platform with one palm, the grip loosening on the knife in the other palm as her earlobes are caressed with the lips in the lightest of ways possible before being teasingly licked with the tip of his tongue.
"𝘋𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐, 𝘸𝘪𝘪𝘪𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘵𝘪𝘪𝘪𝘪𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘭𝘭𝘭 𝘸𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘺," the song starts to play in only one ear as Brad takes the earphone's wire between his teeth and pulls it out softly, as he continues attacking her ear with kisses and licks. He switches to the other side to pull out the wire, making the earphones just fall to the ground as he starts to grab the soft flesh of her ear between his lips and suckle on it ever so sensually, letting his palms gently slide up and down the tantalizing curves of her sides letting the white crop top ride higher up her body each time, loving the feeling of his hands against her bare skin.
"I thought you'd be startled," he whispers into her ears as he continues to kiss and suckle her ears, now letting his teeth get involved a bit. He's surprised that he was the one who probably was more nervous than her. Seeing her look ever so stunning in something as simple as a crop top and a pair of shorts, he decided to walk up to her thinking words wouldn't do justice to expressing how much he'd missed her. After a torturous wait, finally being with his girl, he knew that he was home.
Feeling his teeth just nibble on her neck makes her spine tingle as she smiles to herself, "And you thought I wouldn't recognize your touch," comes the reply with a dash of pride about it; their eyes still dying to meet and greet each other, waiting to see the desire deep in the other's gaze. Just then, she feels his palms hold her shoulders, and she feels that grip gently slide down her arms. He takes his palms and brings them to her front, down the insides of her elbows in such a way that his forearms are right in between her arms and her waist. He just grabs her wrists now, as he lets go of her ears for now, as he starts to slowly kiss her up and down her beautiful neck, she feels his teeth just scrape her satin-like skin as he tightens his grip on her wrists.