Did she need a reason to have fun? No. Life was short and she was young. She had gone out that night with her friends but lost them somewhere between the third and fourth bar. By now Rowan had left the bar and gone to celebrate on the street instead. Lots of people were there, drinking, smoking, dancing, chatting, just enjoying themselves. Loud music was playing from an over-crowded bar, and Rowan really liked the rhythm. She didn’t recognize the song, but her body knew how to move.
In her dancing she felt at ease, she felt totally free – part of that might be due to the drugs someone had offered her earlier – she was only focused on herself and the music making her body move. The people around her were moving with her, bodies touched, and brushed and pushed and pressed. She didn’t seem to care who she was dancing with, who was touching her, who she was sharing drinks with or kisses, she barely recognized them as individuals.
Her hands found the slender waist of a girl, she pulled her close and looked into a very pretty face with irresistibly kissable lips. Her full lips pressed onto them briefly before moving back, smiling at the sweet taste.
Rowan saw something flicker in the girl’s eyes, and hadn’t she been in such a euphoric state, she might have noticed that there was something else than surprise in those big beautiful eyes, which seemed violet in the sparkling street lights. The next moment, the girl’s arms wrapped around her neck, and she pulled herself closer to kiss Rowan.
The kiss wasn’t as greedy as most of the kisses she had got that night. It was sweet and innocent, and so soft that it made her lips tingle. She was almost stunned by all that softness but her body reacted promptly. Her lush lips moved against those sweet lips, inviting them to continue. This felt like a new kind of rush that night. She no longer felt the beat of the music in her muscles, but felt her body vibrating to a different rhythm, a much much softer and calmer one.
Her arms wrapped around the other girl’s waist, she held her so close to her own body that she felt the girl’s heartbeat. A quick and violent pulse, one that made her own race. Her hands didn’t move, palms just felt the warmth beneath the fabric of the dress. Only their lips moved, in no rush. Only once or twice, the tip of her tongue gently tasted the sweet lips, not urging them.
Rowan had lost all sense of time, all senses focused in this moment.
When their lips finally parted because they needed to catch a breath, she breathed heavily as if from exhaustion.
She chuckled, their faces close, still just an inch away.
“Hi,” Rowan whispered. “I’m Rowan. Nice to meet you.”