heathen’s kiss

"Ah, you thought this would be a one night stand." Awk. Ward. "Uh...well..." she stammered, but fell silent as he continued. Her eyes grew wide as she stared, lips pursed together in a small frown of confusion. Clearly he is trying to explain things to her, to get them on the same page, to make her understand. But with every word, every syllable that comes out of his mouth, she grows increasingly more confused. Her honeyed stare is blank, his words not matching up with anything she could make sense of in the moment. It would be awkward to do that because he would see her again? Well...yes. That was exactly what was happening right now. He was in her kitchen, drinking her water, staring at her with that intimidating gaze. He was supposed to be gone, but instead he was here making it awkward. Not only that but he stepped further into her face, getting closer to her, literally the opposite of what she was anticipating would happen. She blinked slowly, deliberately, his words processing at a snail's pace in her mind. Give the poor girl a moment, everything she thought was happened was suddenly falling to bits. She thought Sunjata was the one who didn't know what was going on, but...maybe she was the one who didn't understand?? That wouldn't be terribly surprising actually, now that she considered it... But wait. Had he said...did he say...?! "You like me?" she blurted dumbly, clearly not keeping up with his pace of the conversation. Phoebe In a gentle way, you can shake the world