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I stare at her, willing her to tell me more, to let me in, and she sighs. “Fine. You want to know?”
“Only if you want to tell me.”
She sits up in bed, bows her head and inspects her nails. “It’s just… I’ve loved carnivals from a very young age. They’ve always been my safe place, an escape into a world of the extraordinary, where things can be more than what they seem.”
I nod. “So what did you want to escape?”
She bites her lip, almost like she's not sure how much to tell me. So I help her out a bit.
“I know some of it already. Chad told me,” I say, stroking her cheek.
She looks surprised, but only for a moment. “Well then, I guess you already know what I wanted to escape then.”
“Maybe. But not all of it, and not from your point of view.”
She sighs, falling back down beside me and I hold her close. “Carnivals allowed me to be a kid again. My mother was falling apart mentally, and my dad was always in and out of our lives. I never had a chance to be a kid, you know? I had to make sure Chad was taken care of, but every once in a while, when the local carnival came into town, we'd go together and I wouldn't have to be the responsible one. We could just be kids. Eat cotton candy until our stomachs ached, play stupid games, and ride rides. I could almost forget everything going on at home while we were on the Ferris Wheel or Tilt A Whirl.”
Not sure what to say, I just stick with, “I'm sorry, Dani. That must have been hard for you.” I continue stroking her cheek and staring into her beautiful eyes, hoping she can see the complexity of my feelings for her even if my words didn’t reflect them.
“Enough talking about me,” she says. She lets the silk sheets drop into her lap, exposing her pierced nipples. She reaches up and plays with them. “We’ve already established that nipple piercings are pleasurable for me. What about you?”
I shrug. “I haven’t exactly played with it.”
“Right.” She nods before crawling toward me and dropping her head so she can mouth my pierced nipple. She flicks it agilely with her tongue and I just about melt, sink against the headboard and let out a soft moan of pleasure.
