hey I know this chapter is hella short, but work with me here...My ideas haven't been coming as easily lately.
Chapter 20: Kiss
This is wrong! This is wrong! Her mind screamed to her heart, attempting to sway its decision of its unopposed concession. Her internal shrills, though lucid and unimpeded, conveyed no message and became scattered, hollow pronunciations as they vanished into nothingness. The situation seemed apt to Raven. After all, the emotion that had overtaken her physically and mentally, an emotion for so long unfelt had to have precedence over the wrongness that seemed so obvious, but she could think of no tautological way to sort it all out. Her mind, at some miniscule level was functioning and she was recalling her responsibilities to herself, and to her curse. Normally, an emotion close to escaping would be broken and beat down until it succumbed to the blood that ran so unintentionally cold through her veins. However, after years of inexpression, the particular emotion conveying itself had built up strength as it gathered dust and cobwebs of longing. It has desecrated her barrier and made a clean break, exploding all its rage of unmanifestation in those few moments. However, her curse was on her mind, a fact which she could easily forget, had it not vocalized itself in the physical world as well.
Her powers, by now, had made minced meat of the entire warehouse. However, Raven and Red-X paid no heed to the horrendous explosions echoing one after the other.
His hands were rough on her even skin, but they had a bizarre gentleness only felt to her as his own fingertips had begun a preternatural exploration of their own. Each movement, every touch of the smallest kind sent pulses of warmth rushing to her brain. Her face was scorching, and she was sure that he felt it as well. Her eyes shuddered closed and she tried her hardest not to smile, keep her composure even and unaffected by his fingers raptured embrace. Her breathing made the task impossible, however. It was erratic, incompliant with her minds jarringly repetitive orders to hush and silence itself. Her heart was also defiant, allowing itself to melt the solid ice and accept the forbidden feelings for X without question.
Every indentation of each finger was felt to her as his journey coursed over her cheeks. She compressed them ever so slightly, squinting through the sheer blackness. Though she could not make out any facial features beyond her own recent exploration, a fact most disappointing to her, she could make out two shadowed scoops of flesh where his eyes should be. Pushing into his hands she inched gently closer to him, trying not to startle the man, showing a most genuine weakness, and ruin the moment forever. Though not knowing why she wished to prolong this venture she peered once more onto the face of the man who had blatantly exposed himself, obscure to her reactions, on such a steep level. She could see now, that the eyes were sealed such, reveling in an emotion foreign to her. Could he have found the moment as pleasurable as Raven had found it? His deep breathing seemed to confirm this. It was slow, as if he was on cloud-nine, elongating the time as he ingrained it in his memory. It was then that she realized that he had not done this out of fun, or to follow suit. He had done it for him, all the vibes of cockiness she had received from him were merely a front. The man, when suited, had worn double guises, one physically and the other emotionally. And Raven had found it ecstatic that she was the coveted chosen one that was permitted to see the man unmasked in every way, even if she could not view his features fully.
She then allowed herself to persue the task she had forbade herself from doing, to feel what she had prohibited herself from feeling. A sincere smile graced her lips as Red-X journey came to an end. She was not sad, for she would rather have those few moments in ecstasy than to have never had them at all.
Unexpected to her, X was not quite finished. His scaly hands tenderly cupped her face as he brought his tantalizingly closer. She felt her eyes widen as she knew what was about to come. A kiss, her first kiss. Though her heart thudded in her chest and all thoughts ceased, she felt incandescent happiness, as she was about to experience a moment that she thought would never happen. She closed her eyes and licked her lips as X brought his face down. She squeezed her eyes shut tighter, feeling laughter of bliss bubble in her throat. The air around her was perfect, though her body was numb and it was then that it happened, she felt his delicate, yet taut lips beginning to gently collide with hers, just the tips, but it was about to become whole.
Or it would've had the torrent of emotions not unfurled themselves and interfered. At the first touch she felt what she thought was a spark, a flare of passion. It had in fact been her troublesome -though the word barely warrants the complexity- powers wreaking havoc, now fully free from their bonds.
In one moment, the passion that had surrounded them morphed into aghast horror as their lips were wrenched apart and they were each flown, unwillingly, into opposite directions, victims of an unmitigated, puissant blast.
A crushing blow befell her battered body as she landed violently on the concrete, the coolness seeping into her skin and freezing her heart over once again. Wincing in pain she massaged her tender ribs, feeling a swell on the left side. However, the wound could easily be remedied with a spell within her thousands of volumes back at the tower. She rubbed the wetness from her eyes, smelling the pungent saltiness mixed within them. She struggled to rise and find her footing, blackness percolating through her senses. She fought the enemy of unconsciousness and triumphed as she swiveled her vision, looking for X. She followed the path just opposite she had landed, but what she found confused and disgruntled her. She found a crate, obviously shattered by the impact of a human body, but there was no one to be found. X had vanished leaving her with the unfathomable want to apologize for the havoc her curse had bestowed. Her first kiss had been an utter disaster.
END OF CHAPTER 20!!
See I told you it was short, but at least it didn't take me months to update!