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emotion out of it.
I realized I preferred playful Aaron to the one who hid whatever he was
feeling. But that moved into the background as I recounted the nonexistent
space between our bodies from our chests down.
I was feeling a little light-headed, so my arms braced themselves on
Aaron’s shoulders. Our eyes never breaking contact. I didn’t think either of
us blinked either.
Aaron rearranged my body in his arms, and with the change of position, I
could feel the swaying of his chest against mine. I could feel the sweat on his
skin under my hands and arms too. But above all, I was enraptured by those
blue eyes that gleamed like diamonds under the punishing sunlight. My
breath got stuck in my throat, not going anywhere. Just like I was.
Never in a hundred years would I have imagined myself in this position.
Being held by a shirtless Aaron and not wanting to run as far and fast away as
I could. But shockingly, I wanted to do the exact opposite; I wanted to take
my time inspecting every inch of sticky and bare skin I could see. I wanted to
stay right where I was, perhaps maybe even let him carry me everywhere for
the rest of the day.
And that admission scared me.
No, it terrified me.
Or it should have because in that precise moment, I couldn’t find it in me
to care for anything besides the wild beating of my heart, thumping directly
against Aaron’s skin.
When Aaron finally spoke, his voice had a breathless texture, “You
pinched my ass, Catalina.”
I had. And I was sorry. Sort of.
Which didn’t excuse the shameless, outright joyful grin that broke out on
my face. I barely recognized myself in that moment, barely understood the
need to smile that big and make him pay me back with one of his own.
Perhaps a laugh too.
“I plead the Fifth,” I managed to say through my ridiculously silly smile.
Still held in his arms. “Plus, if by any chance, someone might have pinched
your butt, you might have totally deserved it.”
“Oh yeah?” The corner of his lips twitched.
Almost there. “Yep. One hundred percent well deserved.”
“Even if I’d saved that hypothetical person from a boisterous fall?”
Aaron’s eyes wrinkled with the smile I was looking for, his lips remaining