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Olivia
He simply steals my breath away.
The kiss is a long time coming, so eagerly anticipated, yearned for, feared, and built up that I’d been afraid it could never live up to my fantasies. I couldn’t be more wrong. This is the best kiss. Ever.
There’s a piece of myself I’ve always held behind a shell. I had to put up the shell to protect me from the coldness of my parents, and the ruthless truth of high-class society on a galactic scale. Only the wall is just plain gone, shattered in one kiss.
Something crashes through the breach in the wall, a red wave that washes over me. The deluge washes over my hidden self and breaks pieces of it away. When the wave recedes, my missing parts have been replaced with something else. Some other that has emulsified into my very being.
The heady rush of all of this happens in about a second and a half. I feel as if there’s been an exchange here, like our souls swirled together and left pieces of themselves behind.
In that kiss, IknewYarvok. Not just his name or his exploits or even his memories. I knew everything about what it was to be Yarvok.
The moment passes, but it leaves behind a kind of warm yearning. I want to feel that way again and again.
We come up for air. My hands are on his heaving chest, fingers spread. I look up into his big, golden eyes and see infinity. There’s an intensity in those eyes that frightens me, but a gentle affection that smooths over that. The dichotomy that is Yarvok. Intense, yes, but not necessarily in a bad way.
“Good night, Yarvok,” I say, pushing my forehead against his chest for just a moment before I step away and open the door.
“Good night, Olivia. I hope to see you again soon.”
I nod, smile, and escape inside the house. As soon as the door closes, the kitchen light goes on and Elena is standing there in her bathrobe, her hair in curlers.
“Oh, are you home?” she says.
I look over at the snacks she has prepared.
“Don’t try to pretend that you just happened into the kitchen when I came home from my date. You made ants on a log and then went upstairs and took a shower. This was planned.”
Elena laughs and sits down at the counter. She picks up one of the celery sticks smeared in peanut butter and raisins and takes a crunchy bite.
“So spill,” she says, her words garbled by the masticated food in her mouth.
“I had a nice time,” I say casually as I can, but I can feel my cheeks burning.
“Nice?” she scowls. “You’ll have to be more descriptive than that. How nice is nice? You’re blushing.”
“I am not.”
“You are too. Did he get to second base or something? Or did you let him get all the way to third?”
I roll my eyes to the ceiling.
“First base, you perv.”
“So, when are you going to see him again?”
“I don’t even know how much longer I’m going to stay.”
She blows out a scoff.
“Stay for a while. You don’t have to put down roots, but we’re all having so much fun. Besides, what if Yarvok turns out to be your jalshagar?”
Now it’s my turn to scoff.
“Oh please, that’s like a one in a billion chance. You won the mega gazillions intergalactic lottery, congratulations. Yarvok is a great guy, though, and I would kind of like to get to know him better.”
“So you should stay, it’s all the more reason. I think you’re afraid you might like it.”
