Looking outside...the stars were still there but the sun was probably going to dawn soon....
In her case, she wanted to spend her 'forever' with him but she had an inkling that when she was with him, time seemed to flow with a far greater speed than usual.....sighs.....world was really not fare...
She has been in a trance-like state.
As she slowly moved her hand, that was caressing his soft hairs for who knows how long, down to his flushed cheeks, to his defined contours and jawline she felt shocks running down her spine, her desires were eating on her rational mind.
Her hands stopped as she outlined his sharp jaw and she slowly traced his lips with her thumb.
The soft feeling of those thin red lips had put her mind in a frenzy, she was very, very calm on the outside but it took all her self control to stop her from defiling those charming lips,.... but fate [and of course laozi...hihihi] had a different plot planned out for her.
As she, repeatedly rubbed his lips, he probably felt an itch or was ticklish and tried to avoid her thumb but she, in her ZEN like state, didn't notice the changes. She continued playing with them unconsciously as she looked at him with her softened features.
The air was tinged with fluffiness and pink but lord(!!), all she saw was red.....only those deep red cherry lips, which were more than welcoming her to savor them.
He, probably, got irritated and nibbled at her thumb softly.
She was electrocuted by that sensation and came to her right state of mind BUT somewhere inside her, the LOC[...it's the Line of Control for those who don't know] was crossed or maybe, it snapped?
Still, she was a veteran in this field....
She wanted to take away her hand but he beat her to it.
He probably noticed that the soft feeling and her warmth being withdrawn so, he stopped nibbling and slowly sucked and kissed her thumb and.... the expression she had controlled so far finally, cracked!
The devil inside her kept chanting the "sutra", 'KISS HIM, HE WON'T MIND. KISS HIM, HE WAS ALWAYS YOURS"; this played on a repeat inside her and good lord, it was working.
Her desires took over her, she slowly leaned her body towards him. Her breathing was very soft but her heartbeats shot up like a bullet, her eyes could only see his lips and her mind could only think of those lips and taking them, possessing them.
Her lips were inches apart, she could feel his breath over her face.
The distance closed down to almost zero, they were just about a millimetre apart, all she had to do was take that final step but then--
'Meilin'
A voice flashed through her mind and she stopped.
Her other hand clenched and she pulled out, forcibly.
She gasped for air and slowly looked back at him, that scene from back then replayed; back then when he became her solace....
She had promised him way back then: "Since you're a prince, I'll be your knight in shining armor.....hehe"
And that was the day he, for the first time, wanted her promise to him, fulfilled: "Meilin, please come back to me na. I want my knight back, my knight in all her grandeur and shiny armor....somehow the 'you' right now is not shiny at all. So, please give me back MY MEILIN, please. Please, come back to me." As the rays shone through his hairs giving it a golden lining, his body shone, he was a godsend angel for her, he became the light of her life.
He became someone she promised to put her life on the line for, someone she decided to continue her life for, to live for.
Her life won't be meaningless and boring anymore, it really won't because she had to keep him safe, keep him from being pulled into the darkness of this god-forsaken land, he can't come here....he only belonged to the light, her light.
She couldn't betray him, not back then, not now, not ever.
She stood up and took a deep breath to calm her chaotic heart and when she opened her eyes once again, they had gained their usual calm.
She caressed his hairs for one last time and gave him a simple peck on the forehead: "Goodnight, my prince."
.....
She switched off the lights and only put on the table-side lamp at it's dimmest.
He was a bit claustrophobic, like she was.
She took one last look at him and turned back to go out of the room and closed the door lightly, she didn't turn back, not even once.
....
She didn't notice it....
She didn't know that just when she turned back, he had opened his eyes.
His eyes kept following her back until she closed the door....a wild inhibition shone through them, even in this darkness they were like gems, carrying a whole lot of stars in them but..... they were a bit cold.
When she left the room, he let out a deep breath.
His usual icy eyes had a storm raising inside them.
Since he had felt her leaning towards him, he had clenched his fist so hard that the knuckles were turning white.
He knew no- he desired her to have done something.
"Meilin, why are you being so stubborn ba", he mumbled and roughly glided his hands through his hairs, the lingering warmth of her fingers were still there.
He was actually a bad drunk because he knew, the more he drank the more sober and calmer he got plus the wild nature he hides, comes to surface and he had always put on a facade for her.
Today when he was asked to drink, he did so because he knew that she won't send him back in that state, that she won't leave him alone when he acted a bit clingy, acted like he needed her for security.
'hah'..he sighed deeply.
His eyes had turned slightly misty and his cheeks were flushed due to the alcohol, it was a godsend natural disposition after he drinks, to her it was cute but, right now, it was far from that, scratch that, the genre was different altogether!!
Right now, with his slightly messed up hair, it gave him even more of a seductive and wild vibe, of course, that was without the eye filter of Meilin, who always thought of him as an innocent and clingy young man.[...wuwu...Meilin's motherly instincts are giving me a hard time....]
He just needed to be given an inch and he knew that he would take more than just a mile, he....he just needed her to accept her own feelings.
If she took even half a step closer to him, he will bind her to him forever!
He knew that, in their case, she should be the first one to take a step because the wall she had put and that stubborn nature of her would always be an obstacle, he wanted to take her even if he had to use force but he knew he had to wait or she would leave him....again.
A cold glint passed through his eyes.
"Don't ever think of leaving me alone.....even if I have to chain you and put you inside a cage, nothing would stop me."....he let out a deep sigh and went for a cold shower to get his brain in right state.
It was already a mess that 'Love' required two people to be 'complete'....now that LOVE had a different shade for each one of them, can their love become 'not unrequited'....