[It's unusually hard to catch her breath, somehow, even though she really hasn't done anything that should leave her short of it. Even after his mouth releases her, she can still feel the toe-curling sting radiating heat beneath her skin, and she has to take a minute to focus on it, to examine it and quantify it and really appreciate it.
(She'll spend an hour in front of the mirror later, she knows, looking at it. The shape, the color, the wealth of memories attached to it. She'll remember holding him to her, how thick his hair had felt woven through her fingers. She'll remember how low the register of his voice dipped when he breathed that word at her, anything, and the sweetness of the kisses that followed.)
It must be hard to kiss her, she thinks dazedly, with the rise and fall of her chest being as ragged as it is right now. One hand stays holding the back of his head while the other brushes back around to his ear, fingertips tracing the shell gone hot and red with flush before following it down to his stubbly jaw.]
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[It's unusually hard to catch her breath, somehow, even though she really hasn't done anything that should leave her short of it. Even after his mouth releases her, she can still feel the toe-curling sting radiating heat beneath her skin, and she has to take a minute to focus on it, to examine it and quantify it and really appreciate it.
(She'll spend an hour in front of the mirror later, she knows, looking at it. The shape, the color, the wealth of memories attached to it. She'll remember holding him to her, how thick his hair had felt woven through her fingers. She'll remember how low the register of his voice dipped when he breathed that word at her, anything, and the sweetness of the kisses that followed.)
It must be hard to kiss her, she thinks dazedly, with the rise and fall of her chest being as ragged as it is right now. One hand stays holding the back of his head while the other brushes back around to his ear, fingertips tracing the shell gone hot and red with flush before following it down to his stubbly jaw.]
...So.
[So.]
What now?