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September
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(SPRING)
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Leah
Oliver was running late to the airport, so he only got out of the car to take the suitcase out of the back seat. I kissed him goodbye and promised I’d call at least twice a week. I ran down the path to Axel’s house as his car pulled away. I called at the door, but since there was no answer, I took out my keys. I went inside. It was all silent. I went to my room and saw that Axel had been in there and had leafed through the sketchbook I’d left out for him.
I smiled, but I was trembling inside.
Trembling because I was scared Axel would tell me again there was nothing between us. Trembling because I could no longer pretend I wasn’t in love with him. Trembling because I had started to feel like the person I’d been before, in all her magnitude, and I couldn’t stay in that house another night if he was kissing another woman.
I left my suitcase on the bed and started taking out my clothes and storing them in the closet. I wasn’t done when I heard him coming.
My nerves made my stomach upset. I came out and held my breath as I looked at him in his swimsuit putting his surfboard aside. He looked up and his eyes saw through me.
“Hey,” I managed to whisper.
“Hey.” He stepped toward me.
“I…I just got back.”
“Sure.” He came closer.
I bit my lip. “You want to talk?”
“Talk?” He stopped in front of me and his eyes descended to my mouth. “Talking is the last thing I’m thinking about.”
“So what is it then that you’re…”
I couldn’t finish. His lips covered mine and it was an implacable kiss, a kiss unlike any other in the silence of the house. Real. Intense. Hard. I closed my eyes, memorizing that moment I had dreamed of so many times. His skin was cold, and his hair and swimsuit were still wet, but I didn’t care and I embraced him as though I would never let him go. I just wanted to be closer and closer to him. Despite the difficulties, it was as natural as breathing, the way his lips fit over mine…
Axel picked me up and I wrapped my legs around his waist. He walked to his room and we hit the door frame. I knew no one would ever kiss me that way again, so savage, so emotional, without another thought in their head.
He lowered me slowly to the floor, sliding his hands over every curve of my body. I twitched. From lust. From possessing him like that. From love. And then I felt brave enough to take off my shirt. Axel took in a deep breath through his nose when the garment fell to the ground. He stood still, not touching me, while I removed my bra.
His eyes got lost in my skin…
My knees went weak. I almost asked him to do or say something, but his stare mingled with mine and I didn’t need any words; I could see it all. I saw the fear, but also the determination. The longing.
He took a step back. Our torsos met when he leaned his forehead against mine. His hands caressed my stomach, rose to my chest. His thumb rubbed my nipple with a soft movement, and I had to grab his shoulders, I was so shaken.
“Open your eyes, Leah. Open them.”
I obeyed. Axel unbuttoned my shorts and let them fall. He slid an index finger around the waistband of my panties, killing me slowly, and lowered them until they were around my feet. Maybe it wasn’t the first time he had seen me naked; I went around in a bikini all the time anyway, but I had never felt so exposed before his eyes, so open. If he had wanted, Axel could have reached out and taken whatever he wanted from me. I would have been incapable of denying him anything because it would be as though I were denying it to myself.
“Now you. Please,” I asked.
He gave me an intense look before embracing me. He grabbed my hands softly and guided them down to the knotted string of his bathing suit. I had a knot in my stomach as I untied it. He watched me with his head low and tension in his jaw. When I got it off, we stood there naked in front of each other.
Axel kissed me. His tongue intertwined with mine while we bumped into the bed and I let myself fall back. He leaned down with his hands on either side of my body and looked at me for seconds that seemed eternal.
“I want to touch you,” I said.
