Her eyes open and for half a moment, I feel her tense, but she meets my gaze and exasperatedly nods. Keeping my hands on her head, I lean in and place my lips on hers. My heart wanted to break from my chest. I break away after a few seconds, but I’m followed. Ruby kisses me again. And again. Our lips collided with the fury of a starving lion, both pulling each other in closer as if one of us were about to fly away. The bed disappeared around me. It was just us, as we should be. As we always had been.
Of course, it couldn’t last forever. We both knew we shouldn’t be doing this, and slowly, the fireworks I felt inside returned to a small flame. I rested my forehead against hers and took a few deep breaths before severing our connection, and sitting on the end of the bed, still unable to take my eyes from her. A buzz from her phone tore her away from me and her eyes widened as she saw the screen.