03-26-2017, 11:33 PM
It felt so good to be held. It had been so long, maybe since the last time they’d been curled up together even. Lilitha melted into her Mo’s embrace, sighing and holding him close, feeling the warmth of his body seeping into her skin. “It’s okay, Mo. It is. I needed…” She trailed off, resting her chin on his withers and struggling to find words to express something she barely understood herself. “I think maybe I needed to go it alone for a while, you know? Please don’t blame yourself. I could have tried to find you. It’s on me too, love.”
He tested out her full name, and warmth bloomed in her chest at the sound of it on his lips. She blushed and ducked her head, pulling away to grin up at him. “Everybody grows up eventually, Mo. Even us.” As he turned to study the trees around them, Lilitha sighed and rubbed her cheek against his shoulder, soaking up the feel of a warm body against her, breathing in the smell of friendship and safety and connection for the first time in far too long. Her Mo.
But his words interrupted her quiet reverie, and she stilled in the middle of gently nuzzling the curve of his neck and scritching at a stray bit of hair with her teeth. She paused, biting her lip and quietly considering. Did she want to find Romek? It had been so long, and he had been a part of her life so briefly.
“I...I don’t think so,” she whispered, looking away and struggling to keep her lips from giving into the sadness suddenly weighing them down.. “I think...I think if he wanted to find me, I would have seen him in the last few years. He has a life and a family, and I can’t be a part of that if I’m banished from his home. It’s okay though. I’m used to being alone. What about you? Tell me more about you, Mo.” As subject changes went, it was hardly subtle, but Lilitha could barely think over the ache in her chest. It would have to do.
He tested out her full name, and warmth bloomed in her chest at the sound of it on his lips. She blushed and ducked her head, pulling away to grin up at him. “Everybody grows up eventually, Mo. Even us.” As he turned to study the trees around them, Lilitha sighed and rubbed her cheek against his shoulder, soaking up the feel of a warm body against her, breathing in the smell of friendship and safety and connection for the first time in far too long. Her Mo.
But his words interrupted her quiet reverie, and she stilled in the middle of gently nuzzling the curve of his neck and scritching at a stray bit of hair with her teeth. She paused, biting her lip and quietly considering. Did she want to find Romek? It had been so long, and he had been a part of her life so briefly.
“I...I don’t think so,” she whispered, looking away and struggling to keep her lips from giving into the sadness suddenly weighing them down.. “I think...I think if he wanted to find me, I would have seen him in the last few years. He has a life and a family, and I can’t be a part of that if I’m banished from his home. It’s okay though. I’m used to being alone. What about you? Tell me more about you, Mo.” As subject changes went, it was hardly subtle, but Lilitha could barely think over the ache in her chest. It would have to do.