Max woke up.
She wondered where she was, but as her eyes were adjusting rapidly to the
dark, she saw Logan's room, and then she saw that she was all curled up
around him. ' Woooh!, did I miss something here?' The memories of the
night came back to her, at least parcels of it. She remembered the
shooting and Logan, telling her a hundred times to stay with him and to
not close her eyes. She thought about the way he touched her under the
water, as if she was so fragile that she was going to break in two pieces,
and how he never stoped, just to keep an outside stimulus, for her not to
fall in a coma from the seizures and the fever.
Max looked at Logan who was sleeping in silence. 'Good, he doesn't snore!'
His face was turn towards hers. Max didn't move to not wake him up. She
then felt his hand on the back of her neck, gently pressing her skin for a
second and stoped. 'Don't stop!', she thought.
She began to caress the line of his jaw, by only moving her thumb,
everything else stayed in place. 'He's so handsome...why does it have to
be so complicated?'
Max's eyes were just 'glued' on Logan.
She thought about his lips, how they looked so soft, and how they had felt
on hers the first time they touched each others... in the car,the day she
was supposed to escape to Canada with Zach.
But it wouldn't be the same if she kissed him again, and Max knew it. That
time, it was more of a goodbye kiss, a thank you kiss for saving her life
so many times. Now, it was different, she felt it inside of her. She felt
the emotions growing, the tension reaching a high level in her blood, even
if she wasn't ready yet to define those feelings, she acknowledged their
existance. ' Do I dare?...'
Max caressed Logan's eyebrows and the sensitive skin of his eyes. She then
moved to the lower lip, and the upper one. 'So soft and ready to be
kissed.' She would just have to push her head a little further and her
lips would be on his. 'So tempting...' She licked her lips. '...playing with
fire...' Her heart was beating very fast. '...he's smelling so good...What am
I doing?' She took a pause. It is then that Logan moved and turned his
head to the other side. All she was going to kiss now was a bunch of hair.
'Even when you're asleep you find a way to disarm me.' She took a breath
and smiled. ' You wont always get away that easy Logan Cale.'
Max didn't remove herself from Logan, she just stared at the air for a
while, and fell asleep.