Phases of Us

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He is suddenly alarmed, fearing that she’d walk out on him.  This isn’t how he’s expecting this to go.  “I - ah, uhm…”

Then her melodious laughter, which his ears have always mistaken for music echoes through the room. “You---should----have---seen your---face!”  She says in between fits of laughter.  “You’re so cute! I didn’t know I can make you squirm like that!”

“Ah, cute pala, ha?”  He grins naughtily but she probably hasn’t hear him yet because she’s still laughing, clenching her stomach.  For a second there, he is worried she’s having an asthma attack.

He just gazes at her, her head thrown back in laughter, her shoulders quivering, her eyes dancing and he realizes that she is the most beautiful woman he has ever seen. And he loves her.   His heart flutters, yearning for her.  Without getting noticed, he takes a step closer, their distance now just a mere few inches, and he takes the leap.

“Umph!” is the next sound she hears from herself, that and the music of their lips crashing together that  her eyes fly wide open, momentarily stunned.   Everything seems to have blurred until the movement of his lips on top of hers finally pulls her back into focus.  Her lips are quick to follow though and she finds herself responding to his searing kiss.  He smiles triumphantly against her lips and deepens the kiss, his arms wrapped around her tightly that she could feel every muscle of his chest against hers.

His left hand rests on her back while his right one cups her face.  She then slips one of her arms around his torso while the other one rests on his nape, her fingers laced through his hair.  Her right hand then glides down to his chest  and clutches his shirt, holding on to him because she knows her knees will give out any minute now.   Why he kissed her, she’ll ask him later.  For now, she’ll revel in the sweetness of his mouth and the warmth of his body flushed against hers.

He bites while she nibbles.  Their lips dance to the music of their heartbeats, only breaking away until they absolutely have to come up for air, heads reeling and grinning like fools.  He leans his forehead and nose against hers, both of them giddy from what just happened.

“Hi.”

“Hi, you.”  She whispers shyly, her cheeks blushing as red as his ears.

“Ha?”

“Ha?”

“Ha?” He asks again, amused at her confusion.

“RJ, ano ba?!”  She whines, lightly hitting his uninjured shoulder.  “Seryoso na kasi.”

“Seryoso naman ako sayo, ah.”

“Eh kasiiii, I’m already breaking a lot rules as your thera---”

“Hep--technically, we’ve been breaking rules since inamin mo sakin na crush mo ko.”

“Ah ganon? Eh sino kaya yung unang nangyakap?”

“Ito naman, di na mabiro.” He pulls her into an embrace and kisses the top of her head.  She bites back her smile.   “But hey, may pwersa na ulit ang shoulder ko oh. Progress!”  He smiles proudly, his eyebrows bobbing up and down as he flexes his arms.

“Asus!  Ang yabang!  Fine!  But we need more work on this, though.” She winks as she squeezes his left triceps seductively.  “By the way, what I just did, yun yung tamang pag-wink.”

“Grabe ka saken.”  He pouts.

She grins at him then turning serious, she asks.  “RJ, why did you kiss me?”

“Tinatanong mo talaga?”

“Ay, o sige wag na nga.”  She says, untangling her arms from him and  trying to walk away.

RJ quickly grabs her by her elbow and pulls her back to him to explain.  “Wait lang kasi. Mahal kasi kita. A lot. Very much. Molto.”

“But isn’t this going too fast?  We don’t know each other well enough.”

“We can work on that the same way we’ve been working hard on my recovery but I’d like to believe I know us enough to know that I want to be with you.”

“Ok lang ba if I think about it?” She says almost inaudibly, worried about how he’ll react.

His voice drops to a whisper as he feels something cold falls to the pit of his stomach. “Of course, of course.  I understand.  Take all the time you need.  Andito lang ako.”

“Hala iiyak na. Sorry, sorry.  Joke lang po! Of course I love you.  Madaming madami.  Moltissimo.”  She kisses both his cheeks.

He glares at her.  “Ikaw! Kanina mo pa ko pinapakaba ha.  Yari ka saken!” He warns, chuckling.

“Sorry na!”  She slowly backs away grinning, putting her peace-signing fingers near her cheek.

He runs after her.  She squeals as he catches her by the waist and swings her over his uninjured shoulder then gently lays her down on the couch.  Their gazes locked, he hovers over her and slowly closes the gap between their lips.

He plans to kiss her until she knows no other lips but his.  

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A/N:

This is the last chapter for my AMACon 4.5 but I’m thinking of continuing this as a full fic. What do you think? 😅

What do you think will happen next?

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