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Frequent

In the daytime, she is gentle, passive, peaceful; a quiet wood-nymph with startling eyes. She drifts among the others like a dream within a dream. Her movements are understated, her body carefully withdrawn.

But at night!

At night she is a porcelain seductress, caressing broad shoulders and barely-shaven jaw with soft hands, gazing directly into green-blue eyes. Hers burn with a fire kindled by hope. She wonders as she buries her fingers in his hair how hard it is for him to resist the urge to hold her in return, how challenging to keep that longing smile from his lips as he wards her off yet again. She is answered when in the darkness he almost kisses her, and when the frequency of his heartbeat against her chest betrays his struggle.



Words by WildGoose
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Written on 2008-07-08 at 06:24

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