My lips met hers and she stiffened. Then she relaxed. Her hands went into my hair and pulled my face closer to her and deepened the kiss.. I put my hands on her waist and brought her body against mine. My heart was pounding and burned as our kiss grew deeper. More and more I thought my heart would burst and I would die from lack of oxygen. So I did what any sane man would do. I kept kissing her and thought if I died right now that it wouldn't be so bad. But I had to give max some air too. So I pulled away far enough to drag in a ragged breath. Max was breathing just as heavy as me. We stayed like that for a couple of minutes but it felt like hours. Just looking in her eyes.
"Max…" I whispered softly. " We need to get some sleep." I laid down in a soft patch of grass. Max was leaning into side with her head resting on my chest. My arm was around her waist while my other hand was buried in her hair. Making slow circles on the back of her neck. After awhile I could tell she was asleep by the sound of her even breathing. I looked up and watched the stars. I finally drifted off to sleep.
I woke up with the sun shining down on my face. I winced at how bright it was. I looked over at max. Only to find her gone. I jumped up.
"MAX!" I yelled. I was looking around frantically. Spinning in circles but finding nothing. I finally got dizzy so I had to stop spinning so much. I stopped and tried to hear something. I heard crunching leaves. Like someone walking.
"Hey Fang what's with- agh" Max was cut off when I dragged her against me and crushed her to my chest.
"mhmnmhnmnhm" She mumbled into my shirt. I pulled her away and kissed her hard.
When I pulled back we were both breathing heavily.
"Where were you? I was looking for you forever and screaming your name" I almost yelled at her.
"Geese. I was gone like 10 minutes. The reason I didn't hear you was I found a river and was washing up." She said her "fang-is-to-protective-and-it's-getting-annoying" voice. I just not noticed that her "tan" was gone and her hair was wet.
"Oh. Well why didn't you wake me up?" I said.
"You looked adorable when you slept so I didn't want to wake you." She said like she was talking to a cute little baby and pinched my cheeks. I slapped her hand away gently. She laughed. God, she was beautiful.
The way the sun hit her face and- hey wait since when am I so lovey dovey ? Just forget I said any of that.
I leaned down to kiss her but she stepped back quickly and shook her finger at me like I was a kid trying to get into the cookie jar before dinner. There was a gleam in her eyes.
" No kissing. You need to get cleaned up. You stink." She said playfully and waved her hand in front of her nose.
" Well, what if I gave you no choice but to kiss me?" I said and got the satisfaction of seeing her blink in surprise.
" I'm not scared of you." She said. Then she started to run back into the trees toward the river. I heard her laugh and I started to chase her. I caught up with her within 5 seconds because of my long legs. I tackled her but before we hit the ground I turned over fast so I cushioned our fall. I looked up into Max's laughing eyes.
She leaned down to kiss me. Our lips were a centimeter apart when we heard someone cough.
We both looked up and I saw max's eyes widen as we saw Ari standing a couple feet away with some of his goons backing him up.
"Well, isn't this sweet. Big sis and her boyfriend are having a moment." Ari said with an evil grin.
" I almost hate to ruin it. Almost." Then I saw darkness.