I'm looking outside at the snow we've gotten today. It's gorgeous, simply stunning. My mind wanders off to her and wills us both to be playing outside in the snow.
In my head we're walking back from the train station, talking about something or other that isn't all that important. We're laughing and smiling and occasionally we stare too long at each other and so I blush and turn away.
I look down at the snow and simply cannot resist.
I watch my mitten dip down to grab a handful and I'm making a snowball. I hear her protesting and she runs ahead. I laugh gleefully forgetting how red my face was a few moments ago. Her running is futile. She can't outrun the freezing bit of snow I lob at her back.
I smile smugly as I hear the thwack as it breaks apart.
She yells something about me being dead as she runs ahead, dipping her own glove down into the snow. I run to catch up, grabbing my own snowball on the way. We throw them at one another and keep it up as we both run towards my apartment. As we near the corner at the end of my block, I toss the last one at her.
It nails her square in the back of the head.
She looks at me and laughs, the light from the streetlamp glinting off the flakes in her hair as she shakes it off. She stops & sticks her tongue out. I keep running towards her and reach her. I take my right mitten off and bush the snow out of her hair and her hair from her face.
For a moment, I can't breathe because I realize how close I am to her.
I can smell her shampoo.
I try to say that I'm sorry, but my mouth opens and no words come out. I'm frozen, with one of my hands buried in her hair, while I look into her beautiful eyes.
I forget what I was sorry for.
Hell, I forget where I am.
But she breaks me from it when she grabs my other hand.
We just stand there with the flakes falling down around us in the middle of the street, looking at each other, wondering who or if anyone one will make that first move.
I squeeze her hand and with my hand buried in her hair, I pull her towards me. We laugh slightly as my glasses start to steam up, but I kiss her anyhow. It's soft and I taste the sweetness of the lip balm on her lips. We lean back, me looking through fogged eyes. I untangle my frozen fingers from her hair and I can do nothing but smile.
I step close to her again, this time her gloved hand pulls me to her and we kiss again. Her breath is warm. Her lips soft. The tenderness is staggering.
We just stand close, sharing our breath and all I can think is how I always wondered what her lip balm would taste like.
Finally, I back away, but we continue holding hands.
We don't say a word. We just walk towards my apartment.
A million thoughts go racing through my head, but I can't hear any of them because just one keeps echoing about how soft her lips are.
I fumble with my keys and she laughs saying that I look like she feels. The spell's broken a bit and I tell her that she made my knees weak. She shakes her head in disbelief and looks down, blushing like I had just minutes or was it a lifetime before?
I ask her if she'd like some hot chocolate. She says that she'd adore some, so I wander into the kitchen, get two mugs, and pour the milk. I slide them into the microwave and start unbundling. I realize that a lot of me is wet from our snowball fight so I ask if she's cold. She says yes and that her jeans are sopping wet from where I hit her with a slush ball. I leave the microwave and wander into my room, grabbing a chemise that will definitely fit her as well as a blanket.
I hand it to her and she smiles, starting to take off her shirt.
I disappear into the kitchen. Her boldness is a bit much for me so quickly. I stir the hot chocolate in and grab the container of cookies I made. I walk back into the living room where she's curled up with the blanket and hand her a mug while putting the cookies and my own mug on the end table.
I tell her I'll be right back that I have to get into something warmer myself.
I dig through the drawers in the my room, pulling out a pair of wool socks, my track pants, and a long sleeved tee. I start pulling my shirt up over my head and I feel cold fingers tracing over the tattoo on my back.
I turn and she's standing there, the chemise half hanging off one shoulder.
I pause, not sure of what to do, so she takes my shirt from my hands and puts it on the bed and steps closer. Once again I can smell her shampoo as a blush spreads out across my chest and up into my face. I look down and she tilts my head back up to look her directly in the eye.
That one finger holds so much power as she uses it to pull me to her for another kiss, just as tender as the first two.
Only it doesn't stop and soon I can taste the chocolate on her tongue as it brushes against mine. I pull her tight to me, forgetting how shy I was a few moments ago.