Chapter Four: The Kiss

[backinthsaddle]

It's only a few weeks into the new semester, but Cole is a busy boy, getting down to his reading for homework even though nothing is due just yet. He's a good student, and has automatically shut out most of his surroundings, deep in his textbook.

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[backinthsaddle.livejournal.com]

"Should I not have done that?"

[victormakesart.livejournal.com]

"No," she murmurs, talking gently, barely breathing, trying to assess what is going on and why she isn't panicking. "No, I don't think this is a bad thing."

[backinthsaddle.livejournal.com]

He decides to test that with another kiss, watching her now for any sign of a panic reaction, though also enjoying the moment for itself.

[victormakesart.livejournal.com]

No one's kissed her since... you know, and she likes that Cole has broken that record, so the last person she kissed is now a good guy, and she doesn't feel bad. It isn't numbness, it's warmer than that. She's still trying to quantify it. She doesn't kiss back because she's busy thinking.

[backinthsaddle.livejournal.com]

"You sure this is okay? I can stop if you want."

[victormakesart.livejournal.com]

"It's okay. Are you sure you, um, you want to? Kiss me, I mean?"

((K-9 is up!))

[backinthsaddle.livejournal.com]

"Only if you want me to... kissing usually involves two people, you know."

((eeee, he is ADORABLE))

[victormakesart.livejournal.com]

"I know," she says, matter-of-factly. And she finally does kiss him back, sliding her lips gently against his, like someone expecting an electric shock, eyes still shut. Beyond vulnerable, beyond gentle, clumsy even in her carefulness.

((Eee, thanks!))

[backinthsaddle.livejournal.com]

He's pretty nervous about the whole kissing thing, but at least she's responding, and it's pretty encouraging, and he can almost ignore the smell of pumpkin guts and the way she's all slimy when he touches her shoulder.

[victormakesart.livejournal.com]

She splays her hand, like the gentlest starfish, on his shoulderblade, kisses so lightly, barely touching his lips with hers, chaste beyond chaste.

((It's probs his first kiss, too, considering Vic's also his first girlfriend! It just occurred to me!))

[backinthsaddle.livejournal.com]

"So this is okay?" he asks, once there's a pause. He's always been either too shy or too busy with homework to deal with girls, and so there hasn't really been a lot of kissing in his experience just yet.

((I totes suck at kissing descriptions, never done it myself, hah))

[victormakesart.livejournal.com]

"Yeah," she says, and she finally opens her eyes to look up at him, and there's this moment of exquisite pain that fades away quickly. "You're so good to me. Are you sure you didn't make a mistake? Maybe you meant to kiss someone else and... slipped?"

((You're doing great.))