A/N: I'm long overdue for DekkaXBrinna fluff. Enjoy!
Three feet.
Dekka can't be more than three feet away. Tops. Every inhale and exhale rocks Brianna's world.
So close.
So freaking close.
She shouldn't be feeling this. They're prisoners. Her skin is cracked, broken. Raw wounds have long since opened on her flesh. They're both streaked with mud and grime and things Brianna doesn't want to think of.
She closes her eyes, struggles for sleep. Three feet away, Dekka breathes sigh. The two of them found a corner a few hours ago, curled up for the night. Their goal is to sleep as long as possible, so that won't have to be awake and feel the awfulness of being in this place.
She's starving. Her whole body aches for food, nutrition. Right then, she'll eat anything. Leather. Grass. Trash. Her cat. But her body wants something more than nourishment. She wants something that goes past instinctive desires. It's a requirement for her survival, but in a way Brianna could never have forseen.
Brianna is freaking twelve years old. She shouldn't feel like this. Kids don't fall in lo- Kids don't feel this strongly. But all she wants is to press her forehead against the warm, beautiful chocolate flesh of Dekka's arm.
Three feet away, Dekka sighs in her sleep. Brianna's breathing spikes. Three feet. She can roll over, and just touch her. It'll be perfectly normal, right? It's a chilly night. They're girls, it's totally okay. Just . .. touch her. Nothing wrong with that.
Something inside Brianna wants to touch with such fierce longing that it drowns out all other desires. She wants Dekka more than she wants food, the use of her hands, freedom. She wants her more than anything.
But it's wrong. So wrong. And not just because cement blocks encase their hands, that Caine and his goons forced them into this squalor.
They're both girls. That's wrong with how Brianna felt, what was wrong with her.
The worst part is there's no way Dekka will ever love her back.
A/N: Oh, wow. Why is it in present tense? Even more so, why did I post it online? I honestly have no idea. Review if you feel like it.