Arrival
When Gen opened her apartment door, Kent was panting just a bit in the hallway. She almost wondered if he had run from his apartment to hers. They lived relatively close to each other, but she was pretty sure he was not a runner.
It did not matter.
She was so happy to see him. It felt like her teeth would break as she looked up smiling at him. He looked down at her as he started breathing regularly and smiled before he hugged her. Gen literally felt like she melted into him because with just a hug, she wanted to take all of him in.
Kent walked her back into her apartment and locked the door behind him.
“I missed you,” he said, and she legitimately melted then against him.
“I missed you since I locked my door last night,” she started. “I missed you when you got out of the car before me because I did not want you to.”
His nostrils flared as he looked at her, and his eyes darkened.
“I didn’t come in to work today because I did not want things to be weird Gen, I still don’t.”
She pressed her face to his chest, and he held her close.
“So it was me…”
“It was because I did not want you to feel awkward with me, or me to feel awkward with you.”
“I feel awkward without you,” she said looking up at him.
He leaned down and kissed her forehead.
She took his hand and they walked into the kitchen where she handed him a glass of wine. He took it and she smiled as she saw him look at the bottle which was one of his favorites. She always had a bottle for when he came over and she realized that she had liked him more than she had thought for a long time.
“My favorite.”
“I always keep a bottle for when you come over as a thank you.”
He took another sip but she saw the smile about his lips as he did and she joined him in taking a sip from her own glass.
“I just wanted to see you Gen, this is nothing more than that.”
“I know, why does just seeing you, just being here with you feel more intimate than sex?”
He spit a little bit of his wine, and she did too as they burst into laughter.
“Because it is,” he said looking at her. “Because we know that this means something…”
Gen nodded, because she knew he was right. It meant something that he asked to come over, and that she let him come over. It meant something the way they were looking at each other, without saying anything. They knew that this was different. That they were different.
They had arrived at a new place, and as he walked over to her putting his glass down, she put her glass down too. He leaned down as she leaned up, so hungry for his kiss. The feeling of his lips slanted across hers and their tongues grazing each other softly…
It felt like everything.
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