the way her hair fell down the side of her face casting shadows across her auburn eyes and made me think maybe her walls aren’t as strong as they so often seemed. the tall, vast, unbreakable walls which held the answers to her soul on the other side. usually they were out of reach, untouchable.
but tonight, it felt as if we were the only two people in the world. tonight, she had opened up those walls for me, accepting my offer of company.
her favourite green and black blanket was sprawled across the overgrown tufts of grass inhabiting her backyard. propped up next to the bowls of fairy floss and popcorn she had prepared, her telescope sat. underneath that telescope, there was her, more beautiful than aphrodite herself. black hair that glinted in the moonlight, eyes that changed colour depending on the season, and soft skin like the fluffy fairy floss she was seated next to.
concentration coated her irises, transforming her features. she had no clue of the beauty that was gifted upon her, only of the oblivion above her. she could name every single constellation in a heartbeat, and knew the history of the sparkling orbs better than her own family. Stars were her addiction, as she was mine.
“look, look at the moon.” she sighed. “it looks translucent in this light.” i suppose the period between talking can only be so long before the general need to prevent awkwardness interrupts. she gazed at me, expectant, and it took me a good thirty seconds of fascination lost in her spiralling vixens before i realized what i was supposed to be doing.
my hands fumbled to twist the knobs on her old telescope, a birthday present to her father as a child. once the galaxy was no longer a victim to blurriness, i glanced at the moon. i won’t lie, astronomy has never fascinates me in the same way it fascinates her. but she has given me a new perspective in the way the sun, moon and stars correspond. the moon looked pale and full tonight. well, that was supposedly the occasion; the month’s full moon, and the reason she had decided to call me over.
“it’s wonderful.” was all I could remark as I pulled away from the telescope.
“it is, isn’t it? i also spotted two new constellations I doubted would have been visible in the full light tonight; draco and ares. the more prominent of the two was obviously ares…”
i din’t process any more of her mindless rambling, i was too intent on watching her. of course i tried to listen to the words, but trying to make sense of her obsession was like trying to find the secrets of the universe. i found it incredible how she was oblivious to my obvious hypnosis at her every move.
she just looked so beautiful in this light, she was my drug. oh, so badly i wanted to reach over and kiss her.
so i did.
i don’t know what came over me, but i surprised both of us. my sudden kiss had cut her off mis-sentence, and she was shocked. her lips tasted like coffee and peppermint, and the touch of her lips was even sweeter than i had imagined. this didn’t seem to make the silence of pulling away any less awkward however.
“i’m-i’m sorry”, my stupid mouth muttered. what was i thinking that someone like me would ever be on the same level as someone like her? “i don’t know what came over me… i’m just really dumb sometimes, really” now it was her turn to cut me off. but it wasn’t in the way i would have imagined. her lips once again pressed onto mine, and i leaned into the kiss.
i had no idea why she was even hanging out with me, much less kissing me. but i didn’t resist, her kiss was like a drug. it was a nice kiss, slow and peaceful, not desperate and forced. it was if we cme to a silent agreement that we had to stop now, and we pulled away, staring into each other’s eyes. hers were auburn with flecks of gold and brown, and they were translucent, the same word she had earlier used to describe the moon. my eyes were green, just plain green, no specks of anything. i don’t know what she saw in them, but right then, it didn’t matter.
she laid down, forcing me to crumple beneath her at an odd angle. she let out a giggle at that. oh, her laugh could bring rain to a desert, food to the starving, and money to the poor. it was the kind of laugh that you could listen to all day and not get bored of. it was also the kind of laugh that was infectious, and in no time i had to stifle a laugh myself.
then we were both on the ground, lying in a crumpled heap, laughing hysterically at nothing in particular. we would probably look really strange if someone were to see us, our laughs echoing out over her backyard in the crisp night air. but right then that didn’t matter. nothing mattered. all that mattered was her, the stars and i.
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so this might have some typos but dont judge. also, lowercase intended. thanks x
