SINS (Completed)

FOR THE NIGHT

Hardin

The universe play a sick, tempting joke on me as Tessa curls her fingers behind my neck and I, tired of being apart, of holding on to this small righteous voice in the back of my head, grab her waist with both my hands and pull her closer.

Like a thief, a sinner, a drowning man- I catch at whatever I get. Her essence is so immediately within my system that I don't get a second to think this over.

Or even if did, there wouldn't be a decision to make when the sweet delights of chocolate mixed with the ethereal taste of her, melts into my mouth like the sweetest candy of the merriest Christmas.

Forever is a long time; but not when you want to kiss her.

She moans softly into my mouth, sending a wave of heat down my body in a rush. I move to kiss her earlobe, biting it softly. Her nails graze against my skin and taking it as cue, I glide down to the nape of her neck, breathing in her subtle lavender body wash and the slick beginnings of sweat.

I feel my chest heaving in desire and without wasting a second, I pluck open the pin holding her bun together making her hair tumble down and all around my face.

The smell of her shampoo clouds my head as I suck on her neck and kiss her jaw.

She roams her hands through my arms and the mesh of my hair, pulling on my roots lightly and massaging my scalp occasionally, that makes me want to fade away in her being.

Aching to feel the touch of her skin against my fingers, I tug the belt of her trench coat yanking it off her shoulders and it falls to the floor, the touch creating a light wave in the crystals.

I instantly sneak my palm under the fabric of her tshirt, her burning skin tensing with goosebumps and she calls out my name in my ears longingly.

Fuck. I'm going to take her right here, between these bloody lights.

Behind the pillar she has unexpectedly thrown me against, I find the electric supply switch for the LED connection and I push it down, making the crystals disappear with a whirr.

The backup goes off and the regular bulb above my table switches on, bathing the hall in its dim hue.

Everytime I had feared sleeping, it had been due to the fucking nightmares that would never stop. But today, I get to witness what a beautiful dream feels like- the dreams Tessa's literature poets write about.

She's the one I feel like closing my eyes for, because I know she'll be there when I do; and she'll be without judgement, anger or hate.

I pull back with a physical pain, my muscles hardening under the burden of desire and I hold the side of her face with a palm looking at it through my heavy breaths.

Her flushed face glows in the sultry gleam of the moonlight entering from the window and she looks like the most beautiful piece of art in my arms.

"Theresa- Theresa. We decided on someth-" I break away, unable to say it out anymore.

She pants deeply, her forehead creasing in pain as she realises that I've pulled away.

Her fingers retract to my neck, where she fists a handful of my t-shirt in both her palms and hits me helplessly.

"Shut the fuck up, Hardin. Just- stop, please-" She pleads desperately, as I silently wonder what else remains that I am to do to ease away that- that pain.

It claws away at me mercilessly and doesn't let me take a peaceful breath.

She finally looks up through her hooded eyes, soaked in dancing tears, her lips trembling. I caress her hair away behind her ear with my index finger and thumb, as she tries to speak a million things through her big doe eyes.