It was an average day with average weather, sky blue at some angles, the pale grey of clouds at others. It was warm enough that the sunlight required wearing no jacket but the shade almost insisted on gloves and coat. The only difference from most days was that this was a weekend and he felt like going out to lunch. She'd been called out by friends, to spend a day in company instead of alone behind her walls. Some lunch after some shopping, or so it had been promised. But the day had gone by as they'd both would have expected, and so the two were at lunch, the mere length of a food court between them.
He'd sat there eating, alone in his thoughts, pondering what to do with the rest of the day. Nothing outside the realm of usual, but then there rarely was. And she sat there reliving the same conversations, the same stories about different faces. She still smiled. She still laughed, but her friends rarely provided anything new in their misadventures and she, well, she never really went adventuring. But her smile was there, shining in the light, just enough in sight that his gaze could not avoid her for long. His eyes zeroed in, unable to resist the light she brought to that otherwise banal day. He tried to look away, he really did, but he couldn't. And eventually her eyes locked with his, where they also remained.
How much time can be spent in one shared look? For these two, it was both a few seconds and a short eternity. Moments in which the world slowed, the periphery blurred, and an unfettered gaze burned through time and cloth and essence. They saw a possibility and, somehow, miraculously, they lived it in enviable detail.
His eyes traced her features. The gentle curve of her pale neck. The way her eyes had dilated ever-so-faintly as he'd watched. The nigh-imperceptible flush upon her cheek, absent so very few microseconds ago. The way her hair glowed in the back-light.
Yet the distance between them had faded at a mere thought. He was soon beside her, the scent of her perfume tracing the air. Something about the way she held her face, the coy angles of her smile, he knew she knew he was there. The fingers of his left reached out and stroked the softness of her cheek. She had betrayed her awareness then, in this microcosm, her face turning and pressing into his outstretched hand, leaning into the delicate contact.
At that, he placed his right hand to the side of her arm and lifted softly upwards. She rose angelically but swiftly, her back still to him. His face closed to the side of her neck, his nostrils filling with her aroma as his mouth reached her ear. His breath fell upon her cool skin, hot and full of desire. She pressed backwards, then, forcing his lips to her ear. He could not resist tasting her as she did, his lips parting about the soft lobe of her ear, his tongue, warm and wet, stroking the delicate flesh. She moaned, that backwards pressure firm at first but then melting. His left hand dropped from cheek to waist and he pulled her close, the softness of her ass making firm contact with his groin.