Have you ever burnt your finger and dipped it into freezing water immediately after? The coolness is always a welcomed feeling, the soothing hissing sound music to your ears. One point you were in excruciating pain, the next you were healing, quickly, giddily. You tend to laugh after such an act, the hurt easily forgotten.
The moment their lips touched, the moment their mouths became synchronized. Luke felt it, the calmness, the peace, the joy. He forgot about everything else, the impending war, Chi, Dawson, his parents, even his brother.
But then she pulled away, and everything came crushing back including the fact that Roselidah had feelings for someone else and that this someone else was sprawled across a raft, unconscious and hurt. Lawrence's wound had grown even more morbid, his lif
