“So…” he says in mild bored tone. Sighing, he sits upon the kitchen table.
“So…” is the mimicked reply she gives.
He casts aside the evening’s newspaper that he held in his hand.
“You don’t even read the news, what’s with the paper?”
“I’m bored”
“No shit, really?” She makes her away across the room and postions herself beside him on the table.
He nudges her in the side, “Tell me a story”
“What?! No, i can’t”
“Of course you can, you tell Steph stories all the time, right off the top of your head”
“That’s different”
“How?”
“Well, they’re shit for starters”
He leans in and rests his chin on her shoulder. “Tell me.” It’s only above a whisper but it managed to send a slight shiver down her spine.
“OK, fine, but if its shit don’t blame me”
A woman, right, she’s standing under a canopy of a shop watching the rain pouring down, washing away the dirt that litters the street where she stands.
“You know those nights where the wetness of the rain meets the hotness of the concrete and a mist rises from the ground? Well its one of those nights!”
Moments later, through the mist, she notices the stranger from the corner of her eye. He is standing at the other end of the canopy escaping the rain just as she is.
She sits up from the table and moves around it, all the while keeping her arm out stretched with her palm flat down on his back. She sits to the side of him and moves closer, he can feel her breath on his cheek as she continues with the story.
His gaze never leaves hers, not once does it faulter. As he comes closer she know’s she should feel afaird, she’s had these obsessive ones come up to her before, yet she doesnt. She doesnt move, she doesnt do anything but meet his gaze.
Raising his hand, like this…She manovers herself on the table and raises her hand and places it around his head to gently meet his face. Her breath seems closer now and he becomes aware of the growing tightness he is feeling….he meets her face. She can smell the linseed from his hands and can’t help but think how soft his hands are for an artist. “Do i know you?” she finally speaks, not fully knowing where she got the courage from. “No, but i know you” comes the reply.
Running his fingers over her lips just like this “I’ve painted these lips so many times, I’ve painted this face so many times…” He moves his smooth hands up her face… like so…”this eyebrow, this is where I start. Then this eye” She is transfixed, as he moves his hands across her face describing the technique he uses to sculpt her features. He runs his fingers over her lips ever so slightly, the whimper she exhales is almost inaudible but he feels it linger on his fingers. She leans in closer, her chest is resting on his back and he tries hard not to turn into her to meet her lips, surely they are as desperate for his as he is for hers? He didn’t think she could get closer but somehow she does without pushing him foward, his hand moves by reflex over so slightly towards his crotch, a move that doesnt go unnoticed by her. Loving the impact her words have on him, or perhaps its more the acting out the motions of the story that is really what is effecting him, she continues her story.
He traces her chin line up until he comes in contact with her long blonde hair
“Dark”
“What?”
“Dark, I want her to have dark hair”
“Dark hair it is so”.
He traces her chin line up until he comes in contact with her long dark hair. Running through the silky locks, which she was most famous for, he leans in for what they both are longing for. They’re drawn back to reality with the sound of a car pulling up beside them. The mist that surrounded them seems to lift and with it so does the fogginess of her mind. Remembering where she was and who she was she walks to the car, taking a seat in the back she looks towards her artist. He still stands there, gaze still fixed. A gaze that never faulters, not even when all he can see is the red tail light in the distance until it finally disappears into the warm misty night.
Burying her head in his hair “So, how did you like your story?”
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Yay! From when I am actually creative