I… I can't believe I did what I did. We're… She… Cousins aren't supposed to kiss! But the Wildvines got her and I thought she was dead and then she wasn't and all these feelings I've been trying to ignore for the past month came rushing in and stampeded over my chest.
I couldn't have stopped myself even If I knew what I was gonna do.
That was hours ago. Vilgax is gone, Azmuth fixed the countdown and now we're back on Tetrax's ship heading back to earth where Grandpa is waiting for us. And Gwen…
Gwen is sitting just a few feet away from me with cheeks glowing brighter than her magic. Neither of us really want to look at the other, but the awkwardness of the situation is almost commending us to. Sometimes our eyes meet and the temperature of the room raises a few degrees.
"It…" She starts, shattering the silence before clamming up and looking back down at her hands. Covered in scrapes from so many falls and tumbles.
Her single utterance almost gives me the strength to say something myself. The fear of what she might say to me if I get her to talk stops it dead in my throat. The fear of her calling me a freak now, of her using the same insults she's always used, and the fear of her truly meaning it now keeps it bottled.
The sound of her taking a deep breath pulls my attention.
"It… It wasn't a bad kiss." She says with a face hotter than anything heatblast could hope for. Mine must be the same as I stare at her dumb founded.
"What?" I barely choke out in a whisper. The air on this ship must not be good for humans, there's no way she said that.
"I said," She takes another deep breath, finally working up the courage to look me in the eye, the red surrounding hers making the resolve in them shine. "It wasn't a bad kiss. We could, you know, try again to make sure it wasn't a one time thing, or whatever." She faltered at the end.
"You," I swallow all the saliva. "You wanna try again? With me?"
"Yes, with you, Doofus."As she says this, we both fully turn to look at each other and I look into the eyes I've so quickly come to find comfort in.
"What if it's not? Not as good, I mean." I asked as I started to lean forward. She moves to meet me midway.
"Than that's that." She mutters as her hot breath brushes over my skin as the distance between up finally comes to a complete close.
Oh.
Yeah, It's just as good.