If They Only Knew

Chapter 4 - His Scar

*Niall*

Sucking in my hitched breath.  

Her touch alone excelerating my heart rate. 

Her cold little hands sending shivers down my spine as sudden goosebumps rise.  

Leaning in to study the purple bruise that's painted against my stomach, my eyes flutter closed as I feel her hot breath fan out and splash across my skin like an ocean wave. 

I haven't been touched or cared for like this in such a long time. 

Trembling when her fingers slip across my lower abdomen as my muscles tense up.

Peering at her through thick eyelashes I catch her startled hand in mine.  

Her expression turning from shock to wander at my sudden touch. 

She looks curious with wide green blazing eyes as my hands rise to rest on top of her fragile shoulders.

My shaky finger tips ghost down her shoulders and drift her soft arms. 

I skim down while taking her in with my eyes.  

A slice on her cheekbone painful shone. 

Her pale skin a glows in the dim light. Pink painted toes,  

a splash of purple over her knee. 

Noticing more and more bruises, a red mark along her thigh. 

I reach out to brush over the indigo skin.  

She stands frozen as my fingers tips skim over her sensitive fair skin. Kathleen's green eyes squeezing closed from my contact.

Her head bows down knowing I am gazing over her uncovered body.  

She is beautiful, but not in the beautiful ways you might like to think. She does not have hair that's silk perfection, her eyes are not the colour of a cloudless sky.  

Her smile is slightly crooked and bent, her lips chapped, she doesn't have a clear flowing complexion, neither speak humble thoughts.  

But she is beautiful.  

Like the way the shore kisses at your feet and refuses to stop coming back, in the way the moon hides behind the curtains of darkness on a clouded night. 

She is beautiful. 

Like the way the wind dances in her autumn red hair, the way her eyes gleam with every glance. 

Her beauty out shining her flaws. 

Reaching out my finger tips to lay rest under her chin and pull up to glance into those sea green eyes.  

I shine a sweet smile gazing at her. 

A faint smile prominent on Kathleen's pink lips.

Releasing her chin my arms fall back to my sides. 

The room is silent, as we breath in the same shaky moist air. 

She'll make me shiver without warning.  

Nothing else matters in this moment other then those eyes and the way her fingers brush my bare skin. 

She looks confused, unsure of the events that have occurred up to tonight,  

up to this moment.

Her plump red lips pout and open slightly. 

A deep exhale escapes before she whispers