Chapter 15
Raven was happy.
She stared at the girl beside her. She was in her living room. She would pass the night there, Luna had invited her to watch horror movies. Luna hated them but Raven loved and she had to prove she wasn't scared about it. This last weekend was literally the longest weekend of Luna's life, she just had stayed on her bed not paying attention to the TV show on netflix, she tried to focus on other tasks but she couldn't, just thinking about Raven. Maybe she could change her mind, or maybe she was expecting her to call, maybe not, Luna didn't want to look needy. So she just sat and waited this long two days, but as soon as she saw the brunette in school she went to her to ask if she was busy. She didn't even know what she was calling Raven to do, she just wanted to spend time with her.
Raven just smiled when she saw Luna get up for the second time to fill the popcorn. It hasn't even ended yet. The curly haired girl returned and sat by her side on the sofa. They had turned the lights off and the TV and the kitchen's light were the only light sources. She watched the girl avoid looking at the movies, focusing on the blankets or the popcorn. The Thriller soundtrack of the movie started again but this time Raven was focused on the other girl even if she had her head turned at the TV's direction. Her body was tense, the leading lady of the movie was walking slowly at the opened door. The music was getting faster and louder. Luna was all curled up and she was holding the blanket's edge with force. The ghost appeared and Luna's eyes got wide but she didn't scream. Raven laughed, making Luna look at her.
"What?" She asked, putting popcorn in her mouth.
"Nothing" Raven said and turned to the TV. A few scenes later she looked at the girl again. She was forcing her back slowly against the sofa, holding the popcorn ball in her knees. Raven squeezed her eyes. She was blocking the sigh of the TV behind the popcorn.
"You're staring at me" Luna said. Raven just nodded and denied looking at the movie. That was the big end scene the leading lady was running looking behind.
"Pause!" Luna almost shouted. Raven smiled looking at her.
"No, why?" Raven frowned.
"I need more popcorn!" Luna said, trying to reach the remote on Raven's hand. Reyes just extended her arm to make it difficult for Luna. The curly girl forced throwing herself to take that damn remote as Raven moved her arm. Luna was practically on top of Raven with the blanket now wrapped into the floor. Raven stopped laughing and looked at the girl on top of her, God she was beautiful. She didn't notice when Luna pin her hand with the remote and the other that was trying to take her out off her against the backrest. Luna smiled triumphantly. The movie was still playing on TV but they didn't care anymore. Luna looked from the remote to Raven under her, she had a smirk on her face already staring at her.
God.
She leaned and kissed her still holding Raven's arm above her head against the backrest. Raven kissed her passionately. She tried to take her hand off Luna's grip but she was stronger than her. She smiled against the kiss. She did try but she was enjoying it, though. A throat cleared behind them making Luna jump from Raven's lap just to see a mischievous smirk on Lexa's face.
"Please get yourselfs a room" Lexa said, leaving them, just passing through the living room. And suddenly as it was, they decided that the end of the movie wasn't worth anymore.
They laughed and went upstairs, It was late already. Just like the first day, they laid on bed, however it wasn't like that day.
"Are you okay?" Luna asked, seeing Raven lost in her thoughts. She smiled and waved her head as a way to clean her mind. She loose her brace and rests on bed feeling instantly the perfume she loves all over those sheets.
"Aren't you scared by the movie huh?" Luna mocks getting closer. She smiled when Raven's smile opened. The room's door was slightly open allowing the hallway's light to illuminate the ambient. They're facing each other and that makes it easy for Luna to watch the girl, her eyes go from her smile to her eyes, then to her hair, not fighting the urge to put a part of it behind Raven's ear leaving her hand at hers cheek after the gesture.
"Me? You're the one covering your eyes with the popcorn bow" her laugh filling the quietness space that was the house early in the morning. They should be sleeping as well. They know they have to wake in less than five hours but don't seem to care. With no hurry at all, Luna closes the distance between the two. Slowly as Raven could scare with any abrupt move and run or even as she could fade, just like when you almost there, and then, you wake.
Raven smiled a half second before Luna's lips touched hers. Calm and soft they moved in synchrony. Luna's hand never stopped a soft rubbing on the latina's neck making her shiver.
They haven't talked yet. Well, some people might say a gesture worth a thousand words but maybe not Raven. Yes, a certain celestial body has eclipsed everything she thought about the moon. Yes, her happiness is showing and the effects of the girl on her body is undeniable, her atoms know. But Raven likes facts.
She breathed deeply when Luna broke the kiss. Incredibly contradicting her thoughts, she curled herself on the girl who started brushing her hair just like the first day.
And just like that, Raven wakes up happy.
The sun was entering through the curtains beautifully. She took a deep breath inhaling that amazing smell. It was sweet and remembered a good afternoon at the beach somehow. It was like a soft breeze, sea and sweet tea. It was like calmness and butterflies on her stomach. Luna was laying with her head between Raven's neck and shoulder, her arm rested gently on the girl's waist. Luna's hair spread into Raven's chest made the smell so strong and intoxicating. Just laying there enjoying the feeling of having the girl rested on her. Breathing deeply and slowly to not disturb the other girl's serene atmosphere. She was happy.
Perhaps this could be the only unknown she likes.
Well, besides the space itself.
She couldn't say when it all turned upside down inside her when it comes to Luna Woods. Probably on the first day she spent time with the girl, even if that day was the first time she really talked to her. Maybe it was due to the beautiful energy of hers, how she smiled all that evening, or how she felt softener under Luna's calming touch and presence when she brushed her hair humming that song just to secure her. Or maybe it was the beach day, watching the girl amused and amazed by the sea, her huge beautiful smile as she invited Raven to do her favorite thing in the world. In fact she didn't know when it happened, how could she?
Maybe the first time the sunlight hit her hair on the car ride, or how she hugged her tight when she saw her highest grade celebrating as it was her own.
At some point her body started to react at the girl's presence, nervous when she's around and happy whenever she was smiling, ten times more when she was the reason for it. She just didn't know.
Luna involved her with her presence, inebriated her with her laughs, and suffocated her with her breathtaking beauty leaving a defeated Raven behind.
She didn't know what she was facing in the moment Luna sat beside her with her raspy 'hi' and messy hair. She was taken out of orbit easily and suddenly. She didn't know what she was facing the moment Luna slipped on the floor.
She fell for Luna.
Raven passed her fingers in all the extension of Luna's arm that rested on her. Making her way from her shoulder, passing through her tattoo until it reached her fingers, so then repeat all the way up. She smiled when she trembled with a shiver. Luna opened her eyes and glared at the girl smiling. She was so stunning. They heard her phone buzz and Raven chuckled when Luna touched 'snooze'. Again.
"Come on, we have to get up"
Luna just ignored waving her head, unconsciously making Raven shiver at the contact on her neck.
Luna groaned. She watched the brunette for a while, she didn't know what she had done right to have Raven Reyes right here. Sighing she got up, stretching her back.
"I think now I understand Lexa always getting up late"
She looked at the hour on her phone yawning as she slowly left Raven's embrace against her will. Finally given up procrastinating, maybe she was right. And then, her eyes widened at a detail as she got up in a hurry. They only had 20 minutes to get dressed, eat and go to school.
It wasn't Luna's style to hurry.
She always wakes with enough time to do things calmly. To water the plants in her room. To take deep breaths enjoying her green tea and her warm long bath. She enjoyed having her unstressed routine.
It wasn't Luna style sleep until late hugging a girl either. But now she is running stairs down to get a quick shower, holding her clothes on her hands without caring too much if it will get rumpled as she makes her way to the first floor bathroom.
It really wasn't her style but she wouldn't make it different, not when she had Raven laying on her arms.
With a smirk on her face a few meters away, at the kitchen table, definitely ready, backpack on her side as she eats her cereal, Lexa just waved her head at the greatest scene that she just watched.
The table's turn.