You push him away!

Time seems to stop.

A man.

Is kissing you.

(Kissing your full, hungry lips.)

A man is kissing you.

Your breath catches, your body freezes. Or maybe freeze isn’t the word, not with the heat coursing through you, from your lips to your cheeks down your back and all over your…

A man is kissing you.

Your eyes are wide but you can’t see anything, can hardly think.

A man is kissing you.

His lips, rough on yours, yours –

(…soft… yielding… moving…)

“Mmmmmn..,!”

A sound escapes you. Is it a noise of protest? Of surprise? Or…

(Mmmmmmm….)

A man is kissing you.

You feel your mind go blank, your vision swim, your mouth…

(Your man is kissing you.)

And, for the briefest moment, you feel yourself kiss…

…him…

back…

“MMmm….”

And it’s too much for your male mind to take.

With all the strength you can muster you will yourself to push Nicholas away. He hardly moves but it gets him to pull back ever so slightly and you stumble backwards, away from him, denying what happened, denying…

(You kissed your man.)

“Wha…”

You stare up at him, tears streaming down your cheeks as you touch your lips in shock.

“Wha…”

What did you do to me?

“Ho…”

How could you?

Nicholas says nothing as he stares back at you, but in his eyes you see…