Filed to story: Loving You In My Final Days
Abi stared at him for a long while. She remembered how she kept missing him since yesterday and seeing his face now and being able to hold him made her feel like the void in her life had been fulfilled. She couldn’t explain it but when he was gone, she couldn’t stop looking for him.
Abi’s eyes were suddenly filled with mixed emotions as she stared at him. The next moment, she moved and landed a kiss on his cheek. It was only a peck but it was filled with so much emotion that Alex felt his body freeze for a moment.
When she pulled away, she placed her hands on his cheeks and made him look up at her.
“I missed you, Alex,” she uttered and then she hugged him. Her voice was incredibly raw and filled with something the man never expected.
Alexander was speechless. He didn’t know why but he was affected by those words, by that look in her eyes and by the simple peck she gave him. How did every little ordinary thing she did just become this extraordinary? Alex took a while to snap out of the spell she casted on him.
He struggled to put on his usual smirk. “Abigail… you’re stingy… you actually just gave me a peck? A good girlfriend usually gives more than just a peck, you know?” he whispered in her ear and Abi pulled away.
“More?”
He nodded sexily. “Mm. Like a kiss… right here.” He took her hand and placed her finger on his lips.
Abi felt like a spark just flew the instant she touched his lips. These were the lips that she kissed that day. The thought of him asking her to give him a kiss on his lips made her heart skip a beat.
She never thought that Alex would ask her to kiss him because she thought that since he already knew that she had never kissed a man before, he would be the one to always initiate it. But then Abi thought that Alex might be doing his ‘raising a good girlfriend’ part time job that he was talking about. She didn’t like the sound of it but she wanted to try. She had experienced how to be kissed so now it was time for her to be the one to kiss.
Abi suddenly looked like a huge challenge had been put before her. She took a deep breath before an intense determination began to blaze in her eyes and Alex felt like he wanted to laugh.
“Hey, why do you look like you’re about to go to war?” he chuckled and Abi’s brows creased.
“Please, don’t distract me,” she told him with a serious tone and Alex bit his lips.
“Wait…” he made a time out gesture, as if he had become a referee on the basketball court. “Ahem…” he cleared his throat. “Little fruit, you can’t kiss someone with that look or your partner will run for his life.”
“But you can’t run away when I’m on top of you. And why are you saying ‘someone’? Do you want me to kiss someone else?”
“. . .”
Alexander’s smirk once again faded.
“No, Abigail. That was only a small tip for the future,” he told her. His eyes suddenly turned cold and he cursed himself. Why the hell was this riling him up. He was the one who started this!!
“I’m not going to kiss any other man in my life Alex, just you,” she declared before she closed her eyes and started to gather the resolve and preparation that Alex broke just a while ago. She was so focused on her new task that she didn’t even realize how that last sentence of hers impacted him.
Alex’s body became as still as stone when he heard her. His expressions were unreadable but he looked like a certain kind of lightning had struck him hard. However, one couldn’t even tell if he was happy or sad at hearing those words.
He didn’t say a thing and just quietly stared at her, until the little lamb spoke.
“I’m ready,” she said, more for herself than for him, and the man looked like he snapped out of his own thoughts.
She held his face, cupping his cheeks with both of her palms before she moved her face and stopped midway. She took a deep breath again and stared in his eyes.
Abi was nervous, so nervous that Alex could hear her loud, loud heartbeat. Her face was grave and not romantic at all as she frowned from her deep concentration. It would at least be nice if she looked like an assertive girl but her expression was truly out of the norm. She was giving off the intense determination of a warrior, or a young queen that was about to lead an army to go and fight a long drawn out battle.
For goodness’ sake… this little lamb was too much!!
Alex wanted to stay put and let her be. He wanted to watch what she was about to do but he couldn’t take it anymore. He couldn’t keep a straight face when she was like this! He was afraid that at this rate, he would forget that her aim was to kiss him and not to maim him.
And thus, the great Alexander could only raise his white flag.
“Wait, little lamb. You’re doing it absolutely wrong. I don’t want to tell you this but you don’t look like you want to kiss me at all. You look like you want to chop off my head!”
“No, I don’t! I’m really trying my best to kiss you,” she immediately argued. She was so damn serious that Alex burst and his laugher roared inside the car.
He laughed so hard that Abi just fell speechless and gaped at him. She felt a little bit miffed that he was laughing at her when she was trying so hard to do as he asked! What was so funny?
She looked at him and was about to tell him to stop laughing at her but before she knew it, she was right there, feasting at the sound of his laughter and that pleasant look on his face. He really was like the most breathtaking view in the world when he was laughing like this.
When the man noticed her watching him, he cleared his throat and stopped laughing.
“Sigh… don’t look at me like that, little fruit. This is purely your fault,” he told her and Abi frowned at him. “I mean… you’re too serious.”
Alex seemed to be struggling on how to even start explaining it to her. He paused for a while before he held her chin again.
“Look here, don’t overthink it, little lamb. In fact, it is even better if you stop thinking and just go for it. Do you get what I’m trying to say?”
She nodded.
“Okay,” she said and she held his face again.
