Another image of her flashed through Jake's mind. He remembered teenage MC at the Pine Glade festival. And then the two of them holding hands, trudging through the pine forest to the sound of Katy Perry's Firework, running around happily fooling the security guards. With a contagious joy, the teenager convinced him to dance. They twirled and smiled effusively in front of the silvery full moon and immensely starry sky, as if addressing them, congratulating them. The gusts of wind and the twilight made everything more fun and at the same time majestic, while the music and noise of the other people resounded in the forest. However, they only had eyes and ears for each other. They forgot about the gloomy country they lived in.
He, nervous and a bit awkward with people, did not know what to do in front of such a beautiful, bold, light and easy smiling girl. Jake started talking about software, Linux and programming. MC smiled, increasingly enchanted by this introverted and shy boy. And, as the fireworks burned with their magnificent sets of bright colors, making the place glow golden, the magic happened. In an impetus, she, tiptoeing to reach him, shut him up with a kiss.
Bold and inexperienced, her teeth ended up knocking into theirs. Jake laughed at her impatience, and gently put his hand on her waist and another on the back of her neck. They closed their eyes. Their hearts burned like a monument on fire. Their lips touched a few times, tasting, experimenting, and learning. Testing each other. He unhurriedly ran his tongue across that soft mouth, feeling the strawberry lip gloss she was wearing. It curbed their teenage anxiety, with a gentleness that he, so battered by life, didn't even imagine he had. All he cared about was that body glued to his. Those cool lips on theirs. That delicate smell that seemed to be under his nostrils all the time. Intoxicating his senses.
MC reciprocated, following his rhythm, playing with his tongue and delighting in the taste of that long-awaited first kiss. He said Jake's taste was of mystery and freedom. They surrendered to that beautiful and unique moment. Enchanted before something so unknown, but so splendid as love. Life, at that instant, seemed as promising and brilliant as fireworks.
MC said that she didn't regret waiting to have her first with Jake. Her first kiss had to be with him. With her shy little boy whom she would love forever. Jake, on the other hand, who admired MC's spontaneity and daring, didn't answer the girl's declaration, and she felt a twinge of sadness. He didn't say that he loved her, but he did call her fascinating. But what could he do? At that moment, Jake didn't know how to deal with her feelings and with all her vivacity.
At the moment of separation, to the sound of Paradise by Coldplay, MC said goodbye, saying that she would also wait for him for the first sexual intercourse. Jake smiled and blushed. He was incredulous and unsure. He believed that this girl, who liked to live intensely and should have so many suitors around, would soon forget about him. He was wrong. She really waited for him