Peace.
It was nearly enough to bring tears to my eyes.
My cheek rested on Lia’s abdomen, and I felt her hand against the back of my head, cradling me to her body. I had my arms wrapped around her center, and I held her close against my chest as I lay beside her on the small bed that reminded me too much of the one in the cabin.
I didn’t move. I only inhaled deeply to embrace the scent of her. It was her own, sweet fragrance combined with the smell of our activity from the night before. I curled my fingers around her hip, touched my nose to the skin against her belly, and I inhaled again. My fingers reached up to briefly touch the quarter on its chain around her neck. I had to pee pretty badly, but it wasn’t worth disconnecting myself from her flesh, so I didn’t.
I don’t know how long I stayed that way, eyes closed and just reveling in the sensations around me. At some point, Lia’s fingers twitched, then slowly started massaging my head, which caused me to moan out load.
Lia’s soft laugh filled my ears.
“You like that?”
“Mmmhmm,” I replied as I snuggled against her stomach and tightened my grip on her. “Feels good.”
She kept it up, slowly dragging her fingertips from the top of my head, through my hair, and down to the back of my neck before she started all over again. I lifted my head and shifted up until I was face to face with her and wrapped both arms around her shoulders to hold her against me. Lia’s hand stroked my cheek, and I watched her eyes as she gently traced the veins in my arms.
“I could wake up like this every day,” I said.
“Me, too. You’re gonna have to let me up, though.”
“Why?” I protested. “I don’t want to.”
“I have to go to the bathroom!” Lia laughed.
“So do I.”
“Well, this time would be a lot worse of a wet spot than what I put up with last night, so you better move.”
Something about the crudeness of the remark amused me to no end.
“Come right back,” I ordered as I held in a laugh.
“Yes, sir,” she responded with a grin that made my cock twitch. “Now let go.”
I sighed but rolled away from her so she could get up. True to her word, she curled right back up with me when she returned and started to run her hands up and down my arms again as I tucked my head against her chest. I dozed off briefly, and when I woke, she was propped up on an elbow and just looking at her fingers wrapped around my bicep.
“What?” I questioned.
Lia smiled and looked away as her cheeks tinged with flowing blood.
“Nothing,” she said softly.
“Tell me.”
Her eyes met mine again.
“I just…I feel so safe with you, like nothing could ever happen to me as long as I was with you.”
I wanted it to be true so much. Maybe I went ahead and believed it on some level. After pondering a moment, I leaned back and repositioned myself so I was lying next to her and looking up at her face.
“What is this?” I asked tentatively.
“What is what?” Lia stifled a yawn with her hand and then turned her head back toward mine.
“This,” I said as I tightened my grip and held her body more firmly against my own. “Us. What are we?”
She eyed me for a moment.