A/N: This is the first time I've tried the "one sentence challenge", where you write one sentence per word prompt and end up with a drabble, but I suppose I gave it my own spin. I posted it on Tumblr a while ago for my weekly challenge, Scoundress Saturday. Title is from the song "Tourist" by Yuna!
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Forelsket: That overwhelming euphoric feeling you experience when you're falling in love with someone.
1) overwhelming
The realization felt like too much as she lay there in the nest of blankets and pillows, looking at him sleeping, but
2) euphoric
it wasn't all bad; love shouldn't make you feel bad and, besides, she'd known, she'd just tried so hard not to
3) feeling
feel it, admit it even to herself—to him, she couldn't, wouldn't, because then
4) you
"I love you" would feel like an entreaty for him to stay, like a pact for her to… what? Be faithful? Put him first? Don't let him die?
5) experience
She could promise to the first but not the last two; she hadn't done it before, in a past life, back when loving was easier, and she couldn't do it now
6) when
He was leaving and she had to accept it; she'd asked him but she couldn't bribe, order or beg him. When he came back, maybe…
7) falling
… but right now, she felt as if the rug had been pulled out from under her feet, as if she couldn't hold this inside anymore yet that was all she could do about it
8) love
She'd already known sex wasn't equal to love and this had been no different; it wasn't as if there was a switch inside of her that any physical part of him could activate—
9) with
it was more about being with him and feeling cared for, looked after, appreciated, admired—loved—for who she was and knowing with certainty she felt the same for him
10) someone
She knows there are different kinds of loving, but it's never felt as overwhelming tragic euphoric engulfing complicated burning as this.