“There’s more,” I say when she’s finished the strawberries, offering multiple to me. Honestly, I would rather watch her eat them.
“Ya?” She asks.
“Ya,” I confirm before laying back on the blanket, resting my head on a pillow. She follows suit until we are staring up at the stars. It’s a beautiful, clear night. I checked before picking tonight for our date.
The stars are beautiful as they shine in the sky for us. I turn to watch her taking in the stars. She’s radiant as she marvels over their beauty but nothing compares to hers.
She catches me staring, so I reluctantly turn back to the sky. I know a lot about the constellations and astrology, something I want to use to impress Aly.
“Want to hear about them?” I ask.
She snuggles in next to me and I wrap my arm around her. Her warmth seeps into me from all the places we’re touching.
“Yes please!”
I give a soft laugh at her enthusiasm before starting from the beginning.
“So to find them, you start with the North Star. It’s the brightest star up there.” I point but it’s hard to show her that way.
“Yes, I see it,” she confirms.
“Okay the North Star is the tip of the Little Dipper. Do you know what that one looks like?”
“Yes and I see it.”
I help her make her way from there to the Perseus and Andromeda constellations. They’re harder to spot, but we see them eventually.
“So the story of Perseus and Andromeda starts with Perseus defeating Medusa, he kills her. On his way home he sees a beautiful woman chained up to a rock next to the sea. He rescues her and finds out her parents did it. They chained her to the rock to die for their own sins. She was a sacrifice.
He fell in love with her immediately and killed the sea monster waiting to eat her. He took her away from there and their love is immortalized in the stars. Even though her parents betrayed her, she found a new family with him.”
I smile as she processes my story, staring at the constellations.
“Okay I get it, especially if Perseus was five guys. You all are my family and I love you.”
“We love you too Aly.”
She rolls on top of me, sealing her lips to mine. It starts slow before I grab the back of her head and press her lips closer to mine. I brush my tongue against her plump lower lip and groan from her sweet taste.
She breaks our kiss and moves down to my neck. She licks and sucks her way from one side to the other. My hands are pressed firmly against her back, so I can feel every inch of her.
She leans back, breaking the kiss and I catch my breath as I stare at her. How did I ever get so lucky?
“Do you have another story for me?” She asks as she rolls off me and cuddles in against me again.
“Well, I love the story of the Gemini twins.”
She snuggles in deeper as I press a kiss against her temple.
“Will you tell it to me?”
“Of course, so there were these twins but one was immortal and the other wasn’t. They were best friends, fought all their battles together and people came to them for help because of their dual personalities. One brother was strong and brave while the other was an intellectual who could solve any problem. Sound familiar?”
She giggles, “well I think you’re strong and Kiran is smart but yes I see your point.”
“Well the mortal brother died and the immortal brother was so heart broken he asked Zeus to take his immortality away, so he could die and be with his brother. Zeus was so touched, he gave the other brother eternal life.”
I direct her to the Gemini constellation, so she can see it.
