Post by Lisa on Apr 5, 2010 13:55:03 GMT 10
Title: The Longest Time
Rating: PG-13
Length: 378 words
Character: Wyldon
Summary: Wyldon hasn’t been here for a while.
Note: inspired by Billy Joel’s song of the same name.
There were many difficult things about being a widower. Yes, the initial misery of losing the love of your life fades over time. But that’s a conscious pain. More startling, Wyldon thought, were the times he woke up in the middle of the night and felt how empty and cold his bed was. Vivenne, who’d taken up such a small amount of space, seemed to grow in death. He found himself sleeping on one tiny sliver of the mattress, leaving enough room for two Vivennes. He could tell himself when he woke up in the darkness, that she was there, but far on the other side of the bed.
But then there would be the silence. No deep breaths, no occasional snores.
It took him months to finally adjust to sleeping without her, and even then there were moments when he would forget.
He was astonished at how easy it was to adjust to having a woman in his bed again. A woman who would steal his blankets and wake him with her tossing and turning. A woman who sidled up against him so damn seductively when he was least expecting it.
Sex was easy enough to reintroduce into his life. From the first time Keladry put her arms around him and kissed him passionately, he had no qualms thinking about making love to a woman again. He hadn’t needed it so much in his life as he did then.
But sleeping together was something altogether different from having sex.
A man doesn’t lose himself to a woman by having sex. Yes, there are moments of delirium, of thinking she’s the most incredible thing he’s tasted or felt, of hoping she’ll always be there to bring such physical joy. But it slips away, in the aftermath.
Wyldon lost himself to Keladry the first night she slept in his bed. He wondered if he was a fool for asking her to stay. He asked himself if he was a madman, hoping that it could last forever. But at the same time, when he woke up and felt her breath on his shoulder he realized that this felt more right than anything he could remember.
People weren’t designed to go through life alone.
He was lucky enough to find such perfect romance twice.
Rating: PG-13
Length: 378 words
Character: Wyldon
Summary: Wyldon hasn’t been here for a while.
Note: inspired by Billy Joel’s song of the same name.
There were many difficult things about being a widower. Yes, the initial misery of losing the love of your life fades over time. But that’s a conscious pain. More startling, Wyldon thought, were the times he woke up in the middle of the night and felt how empty and cold his bed was. Vivenne, who’d taken up such a small amount of space, seemed to grow in death. He found himself sleeping on one tiny sliver of the mattress, leaving enough room for two Vivennes. He could tell himself when he woke up in the darkness, that she was there, but far on the other side of the bed.
But then there would be the silence. No deep breaths, no occasional snores.
It took him months to finally adjust to sleeping without her, and even then there were moments when he would forget.
He was astonished at how easy it was to adjust to having a woman in his bed again. A woman who would steal his blankets and wake him with her tossing and turning. A woman who sidled up against him so damn seductively when he was least expecting it.
Sex was easy enough to reintroduce into his life. From the first time Keladry put her arms around him and kissed him passionately, he had no qualms thinking about making love to a woman again. He hadn’t needed it so much in his life as he did then.
But sleeping together was something altogether different from having sex.
A man doesn’t lose himself to a woman by having sex. Yes, there are moments of delirium, of thinking she’s the most incredible thing he’s tasted or felt, of hoping she’ll always be there to bring such physical joy. But it slips away, in the aftermath.
Wyldon lost himself to Keladry the first night she slept in his bed. He wondered if he was a fool for asking her to stay. He asked himself if he was a madman, hoping that it could last forever. But at the same time, when he woke up and felt her breath on his shoulder he realized that this felt more right than anything he could remember.
People weren’t designed to go through life alone.
He was lucky enough to find such perfect romance twice.