We went through the stairs, with his fingers steady around mine. The house went dark around us, room by room, as the last of the evening left the windows.His bedroom felt different, maybe it's because everything had started downstairs, and right now, the evening had fully become night. There was no gold here, only the faint rectangle of hallway light that spilled across the floorboards and then stoppedIt was his space. The air felt quieter, heavier, private in a way the living room never quite managed.I went to his bed, and he followed.I pulled him down with me. My hands found his face in the dark, with my palms resting against his cheeks, and my thumbs resting near the corners of his mouth.He looked at me in the low light. The warm, certain expression was still there, but something underneath it had shifted. It was sharper, hungrier, already deciding.Then his mouth claimed mine with a hunger the living room had only hinted at. The couch had been gold and slow and teasing. This
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