04-08-2020, 03:49 AM
dove
LOVE COULD BE LABELED POISON AND WE'D DRINK IT ANYWAYS.
He steps away from her and she almost cannot hide the wounded look that bruises her dark blue eyes. She does her best to will it away, because she knows it’s wrong. It’s wrong to want him, it’s wrong to be hurt that he would question it and pull away from her. How can she possibly be hurt, when he responds exactly the way that he should?
And she, the shy and meek girl that she is, anything that resembled rejection would have been enough to send her drawing back into herself, but today, something is different.
Today, she wants to cross the line that they have been so cautiously walking. She wants to see what is on the other side, just this once – but of course, she is too young and naive to consider the irreparable consequences. That once they cross it there might not be any going back; that once he touches her, he will have a piece of her that can never be given to anyone else again.
“I don’t know,” she says quietly, looking up at him with eyes half-hidden by the silver of her forelock. She closes the space that he had opened between them, and touching her lips to the stars on his face, and then slowly down his neck as she says in a trembling whisper, “I just know that I will never be able to love anyone the way that I love you, and it terrifies me.”
And she, the shy and meek girl that she is, anything that resembled rejection would have been enough to send her drawing back into herself, but today, something is different.
Today, she wants to cross the line that they have been so cautiously walking. She wants to see what is on the other side, just this once – but of course, she is too young and naive to consider the irreparable consequences. That once they cross it there might not be any going back; that once he touches her, he will have a piece of her that can never be given to anyone else again.
“I don’t know,” she says quietly, looking up at him with eyes half-hidden by the silver of her forelock. She closes the space that he had opened between them, and touching her lips to the stars on his face, and then slowly down his neck as she says in a trembling whisper, “I just know that I will never be able to love anyone the way that I love you, and it terrifies me.”