maple syrup | remus lupin [1]

74. i'm supposed to hate you?

CLAUDIA WAS NEARLY asleep as she heard a knock on the door.

"Come in," she said as loudly as possible through her tiredness.

The person entered the room and she could hear a small chuckle coming from them.

His chuckle.

There was some shuffling, and then suddenly the girl felt the weight of someone sitting down next to her.

"Hey," Remus said as he brushed some hair away from the side of her neck, and then he began to pepper it with kisses.

It was driving her insane.

A small breath of both comfort and longing came from Claudia as she turned around and met his enchanting brown eyes.

"Hi," she replied, placing her hand on the back of his neck and pulling him down to meet her lips.

The kiss wasn't like any they had had before. It was almost desperate and a little deeper and more intense, and it was clear as their tongues mingled and Claudia could feel him against her.

And, as always, it was fireworks.

"I love you," he whispered softly as they stopped to breathe for just a few seconds. "So much."

"I love you," she replied, and then her breath hitched as his lips brushed against her neck as his hand cupped her cheek.

Remus trailed kisses from the back of her ear to her collarbone, doing so slowly and gently as he sometimes took short breaks just to look at her as she took deep breaths of comfortability.

"May I?" He asked after he had kissed her as far as he could, referring to the button-up cardigan that she wore.

"Yes," Claudia breathed as she ran her fingers through his hair.

"Are you sure?"

"I'm as sure as I can be," she replied, indicating for him to unbutton her cardigan, which he did as he continued to kiss her on the lips - doing so in an even more hungry way this time around.

"I want you," Claudia whispered as the boy pulled her cardigan down. "All of you."

"And I want you," he said with the type of smile he could only ever really wear when he looked at her. "All of you, for as long as you want me."

"Yeah?" She asked as she too began kissing him on his neck, and most positively leaving a mark in the process.

"No, screw that," he whispered as he tried to steady his breathing from her kisses. "I'll want you even when you don't want me."

"You don't have to worry about that," Claudia said softly as she leaned back and ran her fingers through his hair yet again. "Because I'll want you forever."