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−Was he good to you? Did you enjoy… your time with him? –Kate asks slightly embarrassed too, the conversation is going to where none of them wants it, but she sees the importance to ask that question.
−Oh god! Mom! – Lily covers her reddish face with her hands and lets a little laugh.
After a moment, Beckett hears a shy, muffled:
−Yeah, he was so gentle, mom, as if he was afraid I would break. – she says with a modest beam
Kate smiles happily, and pets her daughters' leg lovingly where it's placed beside hers.
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A hush settles over the whole house, only the singing of the birds outside can be heard.
Inside the house, in Lily's room, their breathings calming down, sounding as if they were just one person.
Gazes that stare at each other.
They haven't talked, in fact the last coherent word was when Lily was trying to explain herself earlier that morning.
They don't really need to talk anymore. Enjoying this peaceful moment that on its own has been created.
It's obvious that something would be changing and Lily would have to make a decision, soon, but she doesn't think about that right now, and accepts with a soft sigh and the curl of her legs between his, the tender kiss he places on her forehead.
No doubt either, that this act of love they have just done meant more or less the same to both of them.
The tranquil moment is broken by him trying to get up quickly from the bed and saying:
−Oh! Oh god, when do you have to pick the girls from school? It's past one, we should have something to eat, and I don't know if you had to iron or something! – he rambles the questions and it's cute how he is worried for her.
She puts her hand on his chest, backing him down to rest against the cushions again, and she explains that they still have some time left.
−I…− she starts delicately− I just want to enjoy being here with you a little more− and then hides a little of her blush in the crook of his neck.
Sometime later, after having cleaned themselves up a little and eaten and tidied everything, Lily is preparing the girls' snack when he says from his perch against the counter:
−I could come with you to pick the girls up, if that's okay with you− he doesn't really lets her answer when he continues talking – and I've been thinking… − approaching her tentatively – when my mom comes from work, we could go have dinner to the town, I know a place that you would love−
In front of her now, she realizes he seems rather nervous about it, because yeah, it really looks like he is proposing going on a date, and does he think she's going to say no?
A smile appears on her face, consequently relaxing him and then she agrees to go to the "non-date". But a thought occurs to her:
−Oh! But the timetables for the buses from town that late at night don't work at all− she says with a grimace, remembering the time one night she had to wait half an hour standing on the pole stop of the bus.
−Don't worry about it, we'll go with my motorcycle− he says grinning proudly.
That is something that surprises her, as she didn't know he owned one.
−That actually sounds really good– Lily says with a smile.
They stay quiet through almost all the walk to the school. He offers to carry the bag with the box with the snacks.
And when they are waiting for the classes to finish and the rush of all the children earnest to go to the park, she asks:
−Has it been a long time since you came here? −
He turns to her then, rather sheepishly
−well… yeah, with the last year of college, and everything− he shrugs, and she kind of understands what he's saying, doesn't need more.
They stay close together, arms brushing, fingers that could be laced together but that are separated by inches.
And then the girls are out and enthusiastic their brother is there and off they go together to the little park just outside the school.
After one hour of games in the park and having the snack, they decide it's time to go back to the house so the girls have enough time to do their homework, play a little more and have a shower before Megan arrives and they have dinner.
Lilly has had the privilege to observe how Mark acts around his sisters, and how they seem thrilled about the stories he explains to them on their way back home, each girl walking on either side of him, hands clasped to their older brother's ones.
And she likes it. A lot.
Wandering hand-in-hand through the deserted streets of the little town, with the light breeze passing by and only a few all-nighters business opened at that time of the night, Mark and Lily are savouring the peace this little town carries when the night falls upon the valley where it's situated in between green mountains.
Absorbing these moments of calmness, they both realize the fact that they don't wish for the time to run so fast. And that thought strikes Lily, and she has the rushing need to stop, startling Mark.
And she kisses him with all her body, her mind. And it's not just the fact of kissing physically, it's also what the kiss, deep down, brings with it. The power it has to alter what was going to happen. To change the lives of the people feeling it, taking part in it.
And it's so unbelievable foolish that a single interlock of two parts of two bodies can have that much power, that we overlook it. And it saddens Lily a little that until this morning, when Mark has acted brave taking that step forward and doing it, she wouldn't have thought about it.
But she is so ridiculously happy right now, and she feels so overjoyed that he did it and that therefore, he changed their history.
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TBC
A/N: Hello again! Soooooooo I hope you guys liked both of the chapters, maybe you weren't even expecting for me to update but... inspiration left me alone all this months :( and then, when my life started to rebuild the muses came to me abruptly, making my hands hurt from writing in my notebook. One important fact for that insipiration to go away was that I no longer live in the UK, so I was once again sorrounded by the spanish language, and so it was really difficult to write in english and to get it right. Well, I will not ramble much again, I just want to tell you that this story will be having 1 or 2 chapters more at least and that will be the end. I really hope you like how this story has developped itself and leave a review..? and the same as always for any mistakes that I'm sure are somwhere in here, constructive reviews please.
Thanks thanks thanks a lot!
Anna.
