"Twinkle"

The warm bed of pine nettles padding my back as I look up through the mesh of my mosquito net. I close my eyes, take a breath that fills me from my stomach up through my chest, inflating like a hot air balloon, and joy fills me up as I exhale. Hot chocolate swirling in the my stomach, my hand brushes his, as we lay near the sweet smelling grasses - the smell of summer melon wafting off the nearby fields. Opening my eyes, I find his two iridescent caramel colored eyes and his two dimples looking at me. I melt like soft caramel into those eyes and I’m floating, much like the stars blinking in the night sky. He leans his warm, muscular body over me and I smell the faint hint of lavender - a beautiful side effect of working in the lavender fields all day. Every muscle in my body goes limp and I give in with the brush of his lips over mine. He lightly drags his lips like a crop duster across my upper lips, then my nose, then to each eye lid, delicately and deliberately…