Winter Hearts

Free Falling

"Do you want it to end when I go?" he asked, his own voice quiet.

She pulled back to look up at him, perplexed. What else did he expect, since he was leaving at the end of his trip?

"When you go, that will be it. You go back to work, you tour, and then we think about each other til we stop thinking about each other."

He dropped an unexpected, chaste kiss on her talking lips. She inhaled sharply, the desire in her eyes rekindling again.

"That sounds horrible," he whispered.

"Are you trying to shut me up?" she mumbled, eyeing his lips which were swollen from working hard.

"Yes. I don't like the sound of your nonsense," he said with a smile, dropping another close-lipped kiss on her mouth as he looked straight into her eyes.

He was delighted to find that even his pecks were enough to make her catch her breath and close her eyes. She pushed on his chest with both hands to keep him from doing it again.

"You think I didn't know what this was going to be? When you asked me to go outside that night, I already knew how far I was willing to go with you, even though I knew you would be leaving soon. I know where I stand. I know what I want."

Hearing that turned him on even more. He kept getting surprised by Siana in ways he didn't expect. He pressed the length of his body against hers, trapping her hands between them so that they rested on his chest.

"Your interest in me is on a timer," he said, looking down at her with an amorous frown, half wishing he could kiss the resistance out of her, and half wishing she would kiss him and tell him she was joking.

She held his stare, bringing her chin up defiantly. She didn't like how accusatory that sounded.

"But we are on a timer. Once you go home, we will likely never see each other again," she stated simply.

"Why? Why must it be that way?" he asked.

"Well, unless you're going to commute to my home every time we miss each other, or unless I suddenly find a goldmine in my kitchen to buy myself tickets to Seoul on my days off, what kind of a relationship would we have? Long distance commitments? No, thanks. I'm just being realistic here."

"I will buy you all the tickets you need to some see me," he said, grandiosely.

Siana frowned. "I couldn't let you do that," she said.

"Why not?"

"Hold on, soldier, just a minute," She pushed against his chest again, making him release her, and stepped back to look at him with amusement on her face. He was acting like they were committed for life.

She smiled a crooked smile at him as he looked at her earnestly. How handsome he looked when he was looking at her earnestly.

Was he for real? It sounded like flights of fantasy were circling around and drawing love hearts in his head, but when she looked at him, she saw that he genuinely believed that their finite time together did not spell the end of whatever they were starting. Much as she would love to believe in the possibility that they could be together long-term, she had already accepted in her heart that once he left Greece, that would be it. And she had been coming to terms with being happy with the small amount of time they would have had together.

"Can't we just see where it takes us? Go with the flow?"

He gave her such a look of disdain for the idea that she giggled.

"Oh I see. You don't drive unless you have Navi. You're one of THOSE," she laughed.

He smiled, his upturned eyes changing from intense to boyish in an instant. He pursed his cupid's bow lips and for a moment she imagined he was blowing her a kiss.