Ariane:
Our lips were swollen, kiss bruised. Our bodies were still slick with sweat. I believe that single kiss had ignited something… incredible… between us, hours of it.
I took in the room surrounding us. It held a hushed stillness, as if every wall and every piece of furniture told me not to be afraid, that I could relax. It was a silence I wasn’t entirely sure I had ever experienced, a silence broken in brief moments by the soft rhythm of their breathing.
The moonlight filtered through the cracked balcony doors, casting silver essence across the sheets tangled around us.
I sat up slowly, careful not to disturb them, and let the silence envelop me again once I was upright.
Then, stretching, I smiled. I couldn’t help but admire them.
It was the same way I couldn’t help but admi
