“Oh!” Clover twisted toward me. “I think I see them. Should we go out?”
Yes. We were outside to see the northern lights. An alert went off to notify me that they might be visible in my area tonight, and the sky was clear.
I wiggled my phone. “I’m ready to be our professional photographer tonight.”
I turned off the cab lights. Nothing lit up as we got out.
“It’s so dark out,” she said, meeting me in the back.
I dropped the tailgate and spread a blanket out for us to sit on. Instead of having her clamber on in the dark, I put my hands on her shoulders. “May I?”
“Sure?”
I dipped to lift her under her ass. She let out a whoop and clung to me. Once she was settled, I took a seat next to her. Yeah, I liked doing all that way too much.
The temperature wasn’t down to freezing yet, but it was cold. I draped a blanket around the both of us.
She scooted closer to me. “You’re a heater.”
I couldn’t let her be cold. I put an arm around her and stared at the faint green haze in the sky. “Is that it?”
“Have you ever seen them before?” She gasped when I shook my head. “Seriously?”
“Too far south, and we lived in town. After I moved, I read about things I shouldn’t miss in North Dakota, and one site mentioned the northern lights. So, I set up an alert for whenever they were predicted to be visible.”
“I’m glad you got to see them,” she murmured. “The camera will pick up the other color wavelengths, but sometimes you can see them with the naked eye.”
The green got brighter like a surge of power had been plugged in. “Is it moving?”
“Yes!” She wiggled. I might miss the show if she kept doing that. “They’re dancing.”
Waves of green light rippled across the sky, and for the briefest of seconds, a flash of pink appeared. “Damn, that’s pretty.”
I took some pictures, and she was right. In the images, the green was flanked by the pinks and purples that I had seen in snapshots growing up.
“It’s really relaxing.” She laid her head on my shoulder. “It’s dark, and there’s no rush. And they show you how big the world is, the universe, but it’s just light, and it’s so peaceful.”
“I like the company.”
She tilted her face up, and maybe it was the temptation of earlier when we were in the bathroom, and she was close enough for me to devour, yet I didn’t get a taste. Maybe it was the nights we got each other off, and while it was amazing and the strongest orgasms of my life, there was something missing.
Intimacy.
Sex.
Losing myself all the way inside her.
I lifted her chin with the tips of my fingers and pressed my mouth to hers. She didn’t pull away, and she didn’t go stiff. I increased the pressure, and she opened for me. With that, I was a goner.
Sliding my hand around the back of her neck, I turned as much as possible, and she did the same. It wasn’t enough. I slid back and lifted her to straddle me. She settled her weight on me, and yes. That was some of what I’d been waiting for.
She stuffed her hands through my hair and tilted my head back. I gave her all the access she wanted. She tasted as sweet as the Halloween candy we’d been munching on all day.
I tunneled my hands under her hoodie until I hit warm skin. More. I’d implode if I didn’t get more. I broke the kiss to murmur, “I want to be inside you.”
She touched her forehead to mine. “Is that a good idea?”
Valid question. “No, but we only have a month together.”
