And he leans in, so carefully. Breathingand not breathing and hearts beatingbetween us and hes so close, hes so close and I cant feel my legs anymore. I cant feel my fingers or the cold or the emptiness of this room because all I feel is him, everywhere,filling everything and he whispersPlease.He says Please dont shoot me for this.And he kisses me.His lips are softer than anything I've ever known, soft like a first snowfall, like biting into cotton candy, like melting and floating and being weightless in water. Its sweet, itsso effortlessly sweet.And then it changes.Oh GodHe kisses me again, this time stronger,desperate, like he has to have me, like hes dying to memorize the feel of my lips against his own. The taste of him is making me crazy; hes all heat and desire and peppermint and I want more. I've just begun reeling him in, pulling him into me when he breaks away.Hes breathing like hes lost his mind andhes looking at me like something has brokeninside of him, like hes woken up to find thathis nightmares were just that, that they never existed, that it was all just a bad dream that felt far too real but now hes awake and hes safe and everything is going to be okay andIm falling.Im falling apart and into his heart and Im a disaster.
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About Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me
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