Claire de Lune

|• Breathless •|

She felt him tightening the embrace with his one hand as he cradled her visage in his hand, his thumb pad caressing her spongy cheeks ever so softly he could inhale the rose sharbat when he remembered having a pineapple one.

Somehow her lips that felt like rose petals had the right to have it's flavour in them, he mused to himself.

"First time, " Thier foreheads composed together a beautiful symphony as they gently clamped together, she mouthed a what looking at him,

"Na swaasika maranthu poi nikarathu.. It felt like his words were intune with her body and heart as they seemed to obey, " Maranthu? "

His strong arms enveloped thier fingers around hers, snaking them around his torso before bringing it to his heart under his shirt, "Ipdi en manasu kadanthu thavikarathu, she bit her lower lip, her eyes falling like petals during summer at the warm contact of his chest, " Thavichu? "

"First time, his hand held hers steadily as he drew a ' M ' over his heart with her soft fingers, she almost choked her breath at the sudden gesture, " En circle ah vitu na velila varathu, "

"Vanthu? " He gritted his teeth inside his mouth as he encircled her waist with both of his hands, feeling her weight entirely over him, "First time" The roots of his being that surfaced deep under his heart fekt thier sunrise after a long time, as if a sunflower that was meant to be created to feel the sun all it's life, he felt himself etched with her forever,

"Ipdi na self control na ennanae maranthu, mayangi poi irukurathu," He felt rejuvenated, like a long lost language discovered again, like an age old culture celebrated amidst people, like all the happily ever after of this world giving back to it's respective people, like seeing the forgotten years that rolled by in history, He felt like the broken beauty of the sea brought back to life,

"ma- maranthu? " Her hands laced from his torso to this thighs, falling gently on them, "Hmmm.. Ulagathula entha saraku layum ipdi oru botha varaathu" He held her closer as he smelled her cheek in a loud sniffle, his lips were tempted to leave a kiss there but he refrained himself.

Avyay pulled away for a bit and cupped her cheeks again, grazing his nose against hers, his fingers playing a gentle tune on her waist above her kurtha, "You're like my own, personal brand of heroine, My kannama! " He crushed her fluffy nose with his like molten caramel as she gripped his thighs hard, breathing above his lips. Anticipating thier precious moment, they stayed that way fir a moment which felt like hours and the entire world seemed to work in slow motion.

He looked into her eyes, those dark galaxies weren't filled with stars, they were love, endless pools of love and dreams. The desire to be better than the previous day, the energy to light up thier whole town, the happiness that could change the saddest man into the most jubilant, the confidence one would need to achieve everything in life. He saw the word life in it's purest form when he looked into her big, beautiful eyes,

"No.. " He slowly withdrew his fingers from her cheeks without alarming her and sat straight, patting his shirt, she looked at him with disappointment in her eyes. Though she didn't voice it out, he knew she wanted them to have thier moment. Her trust was his most priced possession,

"Listen my beautiful kannama, he held both of her hands to his chest as she too came closer, I want to be sober when I feel you for the very first time. " He kissed her hand softly,"I feel like you're a song I've never come across all my life,