𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄, damiano david

━━𝟓𝟓.𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐊𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬

On the way back to town from the airport, Damiano was driving, I had taken off my shoes and was holding my arm outside through the window so that the fresh wind whirled around me.
My hair kept blowing in my face but I enjoyed the feeling of the warm air on my skin. 

Damiano kept looking at me, a smile on his lips, and I knew he was at least as happy as I was to be back.

"Let's go to the sea," I said against the loud music coming from the car's speakers, "To the sea?" asked Damiano, looking at me.
"Yes, I want to see the waves," I explained, shrugging my shoulders.

"Okay, anything you want, Cora," he reached for mine with his free hand and our fingers intertwined.
So often our hands touched and yet something like a small electric shock ran through me every time he touched me. My body just couldn't help reacting to him like that. I wondered if he felt the same way.

It was the perfect moment, Damiano's hand in mine, the sound of the waves I loved so much in my ears and the smell of the salt water in my nose. I didn't know how long we just stayed silent and walked along the line, but it felt like an eternity, like a single infinite moment that could have played over and over again for my whole life.

I had everything I needed here, Damiano was enough to make me happy for the rest of my unimportant and fleeting life, but his life was not unimportant, nor was it fleeting. He was a role model for so many people and even after his death he would still be that, I was sure, so I appreciated it so much more that he had chosen to spend this life with me.

As the clouds gathered overhead, heralding a downpour, we wanted to turn back to avoid getting wet.

The first thunder made me shriek, but when the cold raindrops splashed down on us I had to laugh out loud.

I turned to Damiano who was looking down at me, his brown eyes fixed on my lips, he grinned too, and the next thing I knew he was pressing his lips to mine and pulling me into a long kiss.

I couldn't even have resisted if I had wanted to, because the kiss made my muscles weak, Damiano held me tightly in his arms and I was sure I would have fallen if he hadn't held me.

One of his hands was on my cheek, the other around my waist, I had my arms wrapped around his neck. Again and again our lips met and I felt as if the storm that was raging around us was inside me, maybe it was, I didn't know, the only thing I knew was that I was pining for Damiano, every fibre of my body was aching for him and I loved the feeling he triggered in me with every touch.

With one hand I reached into his hair, already soaked from the rain, I clung to it while he brushed his lips over my cheek, my jaw and my temple. There was no one else here, probably everyone else had already fled the storm, but even if we hadn't been alone I wouldn't have noticed, all I felt was Damiano, not even the heavy cold rain bothered me.

Somehow we got to Damiano's car before the first lightning flashed across the sky. He had parked in a secluded spot, we could see the sea through the windscreen, but we paid no attention to the view, because as soon as Damiano closed the door behind him, his lips met mine again. 

As lightning twitched across the sky followed by loud thunder, my field of vision lit up for a moment before I closed my eyes again to let myself fall into Damiano's touch.

His hands roamed over my body, my lips over his face and neck, I felt him breathing fast as I caressed his neck again and again.

The storm raged around us as I sat on his lap and he put his hands on my hips. 

I was alternately hot and cold, the further we went the more I lost my sense of reality. Everything around me blurred into a grey whole, only Damiano remained in sharp focus.