[ she's a little breathless from the kiss, from the way he'd suddenly gathered her close, his mouth covering hers. her heart feels fit to burst with the revelation that this is it, this is what she wants and what she wants is that he now knows how much he means to her. and how much she apparently means to him. it's not that she'd doubted it, really, but when certain things come to mean so much, it's a terrifying thing to hope.
when he murmurs i love you right back, she's shaken - in the best possible way. the words are out there now and whatever hesitation and uncertainty she might have felt about the way their relationship hung in the in-between is just... gone.
( she's never letting him go now. couldn't, if she tried which she doesn't want to, and while a laugh stays itself on the tip of her tongue her hand comes up to rest right over his heart and she has the pleasure of watching him succumb to sleep, the words still murmured into the darkness. )
so naomi lies there for what feels like a long, long while before sleep finally comes, the faint knock of his heart beneath her fingertips the only lullaby she could ever need. ]
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when he murmurs i love you right back, she's shaken - in the best possible way. the words are out there now and whatever hesitation and uncertainty she might have felt about the way their relationship hung in the in-between is just... gone.
( she's never letting him go now. couldn't, if she tried which she doesn't want to, and while a laugh stays itself on the tip of her tongue her hand comes up to rest right over his heart and she has the pleasure of watching him succumb to sleep, the words still murmured into the darkness. )
so naomi lies there for what feels like a long, long while before sleep finally comes, the faint knock of his heart beneath her fingertips the only lullaby she could ever need. ]