Page 108 of All That We Are Together
“Yeah. Eat up, otherwise we’re going to be late.”
A half hour later, I was watching her smile as we reached the door of a little cinema housed under a neoclassical facade. I grabbed her hand, bought two tickets and popcorn, and led her into an almost empty theater that reminded me of the ones you see in European movies, with the burgundy seats and the dim lights.
Leah watched enthusiastically as the first scenes of a silent film,The Kid, came on. Content, I brought a handful of popcorn to my mouth and bent over to whisper to her:
“See, this is what normal couples do. They go out to the movies together. It’s interesting. Not especially practical, but nothing’s perfect.”
“Practical?” Leah raised an eyebrow.
“I mean, if you had a skirt on, maybe it would be different.”
She laughed and elbowed me in the ribs.
I kept my eyes on the screen, trying to concentrate on themovie, until I felt Leah moving next to me. Then I felt her lips on my neck. I held my breath. I turned to trap her mouth, and she moaned when I licked her lower lip. We bit each other. We kissed. We looked for each other there in the cinema until I finally felt her hand rubbing me over my pants, and it took everything I had in me to keep calm and not tear off her clothes right then.
“Babe…this is going to have consequences.”
“I’m well aware of that.” She smiled.
“Then why the hell are we still here?”
I got up and pulled her up as well while she giggled. We stumbled back to the apartment, stopping at each corner to kiss, or else I’d whisper in her ear that she drove me wild when I saw the old her again, so wild, so impulsive, so vibrant.
In the doorway, I told her she had one minute to make it upstairs before I started putting on a show for the neighbors, because I couldn’t hold back any longer. She laughed as she ran upstairs and I started counting. “One, two, three,” I said just as the key slid into the lock.
The door slammed shut, and my hands got lost on her body one second later. Leah arched her back, and I looked for the buttons of her pants as I sucked her neck, marking it, leaving my trail on her skin…
I pulled her T-shirt over her head quickly and then jerked down her pants. My eyes closed against her body, naked except for her black bra and panties. I could feel her trembling, but she didn’t move, she let me look at her, she let me… I wanted to paint her like that, to have her that way, a way no one else would eversee. I unbuttoned the top buttons of my shirt; I felt stifled, but I didn’t get around to the rest of my clothes.
“Take off the rest,” I nearly shouted.
“What about you?”
“Later.” I gulped.
Her gaze had something vulnerable in it as she started to bring her arms up to unhook her bra. She let it fall to the floor, and I licked my lips as I contemplated that image of perfection. She slid off her panties. I took a step toward her, then another, then another. I covered her breast with a hand, bent over, tried to stop her lips from shuddering, planting a kiss on them as I felt her all over, so slowly my hands hurt, exploring every curve and fold of her naked body.
I moved down her neck, the arch of her shoulder, her breasts, sliding my tongue across them, pausing when I heard her pant, progressing on to her side, where I looked for those three words I had traced out there years before. I kissed that memory. Then I descended further, lips pressing into her stomach, nibbling and licking and savoring her in a way I’d longed to do for so long. Drawing her with my mouth.
I kneeled in front of her, my shirt wrinkled, so hard now that my pants were starting to hurt me. And as I was down there, all I could do was look up at her. Adore her, her impenetrable stare, watery, so full…full of all we once had, all those things that were still alive…
I stroked her legs.
“You like this? Seeing me kneeling in front of you? Knowing I’d spend my entire life down here if only you asked…”
Leah was nearly panting. I liked her feeling powerful, knowing that she was in control. I smiled slyly and moved my hand higher up her thigh and then between her legs. Then I kissed her there. She was wet, jittery, eager. Her fingers wove through my hair when she needed to change my rhythm and I let her do it. I liked that; I liked her being forward, even demanding. I pushed my tongue inside her, fucked her with my fingers. Then I started licking slower, putting off the moment when she’d moan my name and gripping her thighs when her legs began wriggling and I knew she was coming. I kept going until she couldn’t moan anymore, until I’d memorized the taste of her and I could tell she needed me to get up and hold her together. I squeezed her tight against my chest.
“You taste better than I remembered.”
“Fuck, Axel.”
“I hope that’s a command and not just a curse, because I swear to you I was so close to coming without even being touched, and I need you… I need you like you can’t even believe.”
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Leah
My heart was pounding so hard I couldn’t hear a thing but my own palpitations as I pulled him toward the bedroom and unbuttoned his shirt. I pulled it off his shoulders, looked for his belt, slid my hands down his pants, feeling his erection just as we crossed the threshold.