04-23-2016, 03:09 AM
She is seized by a sudden thought to tell him how she has dreamed of him day in and day out.
She could tell time by the way she missed him - sunup and sundown were the worst times to miss him because the light was thick and watery, every shadow held his shape, every breeze his scent.
Lanai cannot say anything for the way he lets out the breath he was holding against her skin and all she can think is that it feels like home, the way their bodies touch and come together so naturally.
They cleave to one another like two halves of a whole and when he says don’t leave again, she says “Never” like Poe’s raven - croaky and the weight of that one word so final and heavy with promise. How could she leave him like this now? He is saying all the things she always wanted to hear fall from his lips like rain from the clouds above, heavy and thick with emotion and Lanai could no more leave if she had really wanted to - which she doesn’t. Texas was always a beacon for her, a lighthouse of hope and love that kept her searching for the shores of his soul so that the boat of her body could bump gently against his own flesh and anchor there permanently.
He asks her to stay and she can feel her heart solidify just that much more, hard and hurtful in its now immortal thump in her bay breast. She answers him with the clasp of her teeth to a hank of his black hair and a quick sharp tug of it then the wild skitter of her teeth down his neck to one lasting loving nibble on his wither. Lanai answers him in the only way she can - through the language of touch and breath because for the first time, words fail her and it sounds so silly to just say okay. She means it though, this agreement to try and stay and not go off in search of the sea or a summer storm or his shadow on the ground. She’ll really try this time to just stay, to just be in the here and the now with him even though in the back of both of their minds, they are setting themselves up for that same old hurt and that same old failure but isn’t that what good old timeless love all about?
She could tell time by the way she missed him - sunup and sundown were the worst times to miss him because the light was thick and watery, every shadow held his shape, every breeze his scent.
Lanai cannot say anything for the way he lets out the breath he was holding against her skin and all she can think is that it feels like home, the way their bodies touch and come together so naturally.
They cleave to one another like two halves of a whole and when he says don’t leave again, she says “Never” like Poe’s raven - croaky and the weight of that one word so final and heavy with promise. How could she leave him like this now? He is saying all the things she always wanted to hear fall from his lips like rain from the clouds above, heavy and thick with emotion and Lanai could no more leave if she had really wanted to - which she doesn’t. Texas was always a beacon for her, a lighthouse of hope and love that kept her searching for the shores of his soul so that the boat of her body could bump gently against his own flesh and anchor there permanently.
He asks her to stay and she can feel her heart solidify just that much more, hard and hurtful in its now immortal thump in her bay breast. She answers him with the clasp of her teeth to a hank of his black hair and a quick sharp tug of it then the wild skitter of her teeth down his neck to one lasting loving nibble on his wither. Lanai answers him in the only way she can - through the language of touch and breath because for the first time, words fail her and it sounds so silly to just say okay. She means it though, this agreement to try and stay and not go off in search of the sea or a summer storm or his shadow on the ground. She’ll really try this time to just stay, to just be in the here and the now with him even though in the back of both of their minds, they are setting themselves up for that same old hurt and that same old failure but isn’t that what good old timeless love all about?