Chapter 25

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Chapter 25

It was the middle of the night when I woke. Lianna's arm was draped over my waist, her chest flush with my back, and her hips pressed against mine. A blanket was thrown over the two of us, but the naked carpet bit into my skin. I stared out into the darkness, just the glow of her fairy lights illuminating the room. The stacked boxes of her things reminded me that she was going to leave me.

"I know you're awake."

Lianna snuggled against me, pressing her nose into the crook of my neck. A smile pulled at my lips.

"Were you watching me?" I turned to look at her. She stared down at me, a soft look upon her face. "Creep."

She grinned, showing her almost perfectly white teeth. My eyes flickered down to her lips. I bit my own as her tongue swiped her bottom lip.

"You like it," she says. She kisses me on the corner of my mouth. I lean into her touch, chasing the warmth emitting from her. She's all around me, just as I've wanted her to be.

And it was then that I realized what I'd been missing. She had captured my attention long ago. I had wanted her, even when I'd only known her by name.

I kiss her the same way she kissed me.

"This isn't exactly what I came here for," I say. I'm breathless. It was only a soft peck yet she's got so much power over me she takes my breath away just by existing. My chest quivers.

"Are you mad?" She whispers, dropping down to press her lips to my shoulder. She just rests there, watching me in the glow of the lights.

I turn to fully face her.

"You remember what you showed me?" I focus on the dip of her collar bones. Her eyes are burning into my face and as much as I trust her now, I don't want to hurt her. I don't want to scare her off just when I've gotten her.

She nods. Her eyes are on my lips. I lick them unconsciously. I don't feel bad about it. It's as if she's turned me into a different person all together. But I don't feel like I've changed. I feel like I've been released from a cage I'd been trapped in for most of my life.

"The gym." She says it like it means more than it does. Well, it does. In one aspect, it means more than the two of us combined. The gym was the place where girls lost their innocence, where they were turned into whores for the school.

I swallowed hard, trying to keep the bile down.

Her smile fell. "Relatively. Yes."

If this wasn't such a big moment, I would have laughed at her admission. Something about the way she was nonchalant about things made me smile. It was another thing I didn't know I had been missing until I surrendered to the joy of it.

"You might think I'm crazy if I tell you." My words are almost slurred they're coming out so fast.

"Try me," she says in her above a whisper voice.

I close my eyes and take a shaky breath.

"Did you know that..." I swallow. I just can't say it without thinking about couch and Zoey inside my head. The sickening sound of them in that small room makes me sick.

And then I think that I'd done the same sickening thing with Lianna.

No. This isn't like that. This is different.

That voice in my head tells me that it isn't and I don't know who to listen to anymore. Every fiber of my being wants Lianna closer to me, but the reasonable side of me that isn't being led by my heart tells me that I'm making the wrong choice.

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