"nobody else does all'a what? this?" she rocks against his lap, moving easy with the rise and fall of bass and chord. sinking into him feels almost too natural; dangerous, the way familiar things are. violet doesn't lift her hips the way she would for just anyone. the veil is gone. the careful, measured version of herself has dissolved somewhere between one song and the next. she likes watching it happen to him. the way his irises go dark and wide. the way his hands can't commit to anything, hovering, landing, retreating. what's going on in that head of yours, david? she wants him to touch her - not just to do it, but to need to. to not be able to help it. her patience holds, thick and slow, because watching him open like this is its own kind of pleasure. his shoulders drop, the static hum that always surrounds him softens into something warmer, something she wants to lean into. like if she pressed close enough, she might absorb it through the skin. then his hand finds her thigh and something crawls slow up her spine; warm, wanting, inconvenient. it makes her wish it were his mouth. he's talking now. blushing. rolling his eyes like he's annoyed but the smile gives him away, tugging at the corner of his mouth, pulling one out of her in return. she's still moving, still rolling against him, one track bleeding into the next. she'd already forgotten what playlist she'd put on. "y'know i love hearin' you say it." she smirks, lifts just enough to make him feel the absence, then comes back down, closer this time, arching in, a curtain of platinum blonde falling around them like a private room. "tell me.." a whisper, only his. "tell me what it feels like.."