You know that feeling when someone kisses you and the world stops?
I'm talking about a fairytale, rom com level kiss. Where you only get to see the good hot parts and then the movie ends and you don't actually know whether everything ended up in a dumpster fire of resentment and bad decision. Or not.
Last night, I got a kiss like that, on the street after we parked our cars before going into my apartment.
I wish my fingers could properly expel the words to express the sensations my whole being felt during that kiss, and after when the kiss turned into so much more...
I'll try anyway.
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The street lamp's glow filters through the palm tree fronds, bathing our faces in lines and angles as he assuredly steps up to me and pulls me to him. Grabbing the back of my head, he clenches a fistfull of my hair at the base of my skull and pulls my head back, hard enough that I let out a gasp, then almost a whimper as his mouth meets mine with the same level of intensity as the fingers kneading themselves into my skull.
That is when the world stops.
As his hands control my head and neck, my mind becomes so calm it would make any zen buddhist proud. His tongue flicks against my lips and then his teeth join in. I wrap my arms around his waist, and snake my hands under his shirt and sweater and down just below his belt line so I can grasp his hips and pull him closer. Hips close, he is leaning over me, still devouring my mouth; my body arching to meet the angle.
With one more passionate press of our lips and bodies he releases me.
"Hey," he says through his upturned mouth.
"Well, hi there," I say with a woozy smile, straightening up, head angled still to look into his grinning eyes.
"Where are we? What's happening?" I joke as we start to walk up the hill to my apartment, hand in hand, swaying slightly with a drunkenness that comes only from a passionate kiss.
Through the gate and up the stairs, we cross the desert jungle of plants to enter my house. My roommate is sleeping, I explain, as we quietly enter and I give him a very quick tour in a whisper.