You sit on the edge of your bed, awash in the cold light emanating from your laptop on the nightstand that serves as your makeshift desk. You glance at the clock on your toolbar and sigh. 2:37 a.m. and both sleep and ideas elude you.
You push back from the edge slightly and close your eyes, reviewing in your mind what you've written so far. The words came so quickly at first, but the more the story unfolds, the more difficult the end becomes to see.
With your eyes still closed, you feel a light breeze against your hair, just above your left shoulder and idly brush it away.
It comes again, stronger this time and you whip your head around to find the source.
There is nothing.
Nervously, you turn back to your keyboard and attempt to force your thoughts back to what you were writing. Several minutes pass and your pulse returns to normal as you peck away at the keys.
Without warning the touch returns, not briefly this time but a constant, light pressure keeping your hair pressed to your cheek.
And there is the feeling of a hand on your right shoulder.
The pressure on your hair moves slowly to the tips and your hair is pulled back to fall over your shoulder.
Now you feel phantom lips on your neck, just below your earlobe. Your pulse quickens and your breaths begin to come faster and slightly shaky. The lips kiss down your neck, to your collarbone and trace it to the center of your chest.