Page 94 of The Comedown

“What do you want?”

She takes in my position at her feet, and says, “To be worshipped.”

Neither of us closes our eyes as her lips lower to mine. Even though I always thought it’d be awkward to watch the person you’re kissing, with Collette it feels completely normal. Like we were built for exactly this.

Her tongue slips past my lips and mine chases hers automatically, matching her move for move.

My swollen cock leaks inside my pants, but my hands stay at my sides as I keep it to just kissing. Collette doesn’t need to be felt up right now. She needs to be reminded she’s not an object, she’s a woman, a goddess in charge of her own body and her own desires.

This close to her pussy, that desire—my favorite fucking scent—fills my nostrils, making me kiss even harder as our mouths explore the other’s in one of the most possessive kisses I’ve ever experienced, and I’m not even talking about my intentions. Collette is laying claim with this kiss.

Slowly, she pulls back, taking my bottom lip with her until it’s stretched as far as it’ll go, then she releases it with a smirk.

Fuck, that’s hot.

“Let’s pull out of tonight’s show.” Anything to stay here, with her in this moment.

Her face above mine softens as she gazes down at me, and I grow warm and full from the look in her currently blueish-gray eyes alone.

What is that? I haven’t felt it before.

“I don’t quit anything,” she says.

I loop an arm around one of her knees, then pull so it gives out, making her fall on to my thighs as I sit back on my heels.

“You are more, Julian.”

More? Than what?

“This isn’t even me at my best,” I tell her honestly.

“Yes, it is,” she argues before pressing a soft kiss to my mouth and whispering, “If I did have magic, I’d make you see yourself the way I do.”

The door to the bus opens and Collette’s off my lap before I get a chance to ask how she sees me.

After collecting my money from the floor, I stand to greet everyone, and we all slide right back into our normal—the normal from before, when I was just an intruder in both Collette’s bus and her life, but she allowed it…for some reason.

I don’t feel normal though. It’s like what Collette described when she touched my throat for the first time. She kissed me and now everything’s changed. I feel changed.

Does she?

Julian

“Since I’ve still got Collette out here, I thought I’d try something new,” I tell the packed hillside, the sky above them full of thousands of colorful bubbles.

The festival’s named after the region’s obsession with Bigfoot and has a good mix of talent on the cards. While Collette went to meet some of the other acts, I went in search of my guitar over on my bus instead. I always keep it with me even though I don’t play anymore. After playing at the children’s hospital and Collette’s follow-up challenge, I thought tonight would be a good time to pull it out again.

One of my roadies brings my electric guitar out to me, and I slip the strap over my head while he connects my Fender to the amp.

Collette ventures closer, turning so her back’s to the fans, and gives me a surprised look.

“We’ve never done this before,” I say into the mic, staring into Collette’s eyes. “I’ve never done this before.” I scan the people spread out across the lawn and beyond to the path leading to the campsites in the distance. “So, uh, I hope you like it. Here it goes.”

Using my pick, I strum the opening chords to Billie Eilish’s “You Should See Me in a Crown,” singing the first verse, then Axel brings in the drums halfway through it. As soon as we hit the hook, we both pick up the pace with a rock, almost metal twist, like what Clio Cadence did in her cover of it.

Collette hypes the audience, then turns back around to watch me. She doesn’t usually sing with me after our song together, only stays onstage with me for my own songs, but I’m hoping she’ll humor me this once.

When I get to the bridge, I jerk my head at her, beckoning her over as I sing the first half with a smile splitting my lips, and even though she rolls her eyes with her own smile, she brings her mic up and sings the second half back to me with enough attitude to get me hard all over again.