Just For A Moment Novels & Stories

I assure him . I don't know if this is the right moment , but then again I don't know if there will ever be a right moment and right now , both of us are alone so it seems like the perfect opportunity to drop the basket , spill the beans , give the game away , get the cat out of the bag etc etc.. You get what I mean ? He looks at me curiously for a second . " Shoot . "

It was quite understandable because the wedding was just in less than a month. I sat in a lotus position on the bed , starring out from the window do deep in thought, I had shut my surroundings out. "Ellen" It was funny,I thought my mind was playing tricks with me and I had imagined my name being called out by Kelvin but he would not be here for any reason except it was almost time for us to leave. I checked the time and we still had about two hours. Ellen? I heard it audibly again this time round, I looked up to be sure.

Not waiting. Just present. And for the first time, that was enough.

Through the memory of her smell on my skin. I palm myself once, just to remind my body who’s in charge. It doesn’t listen. I finish quickly, colder than when I started, and tell myself this will pass. Everything does. Even the things that shouldn’t.

“Yeah. You are.” He fell silent, trying to think how to say the next thing: that they couldn’t work long-term, but they could work just for a little while. That they had no hope for anything even approaching permanent, but they could commit to something temporary. That there was no future for them, but there was the present. There was this moment. There was now.

She just waits for the right moment. And my moment was coming.

Confirm. Just like that.

Time to end this one way or another. ***

He woke up from his sleep to a female voice, slowly opening his eyes to see her sitting next to him with a small side smile to smile and wink at her and say: "good morning" She approached him and put her hand on his cheek, passing her hand on him and imprinting a small kiss on his lips, saying: "Good morning." He straightened in his seat and got up from his bed to the bathroom, but she got up to get dressed to leave, and he came out of the bathroom, wrapping a towel around his waist and holding a small towel with which he dried his brown hair, she smiled at him and said: "Will I see you again, I don't want it to be just a fleeting night"

They make it feel like my brain just went clubbing. Julian: You’ve got 20 minutes. Julian: Don’t be late. Julian: Or I’ll be collecting compensation :)