yours for the weekend
Complete! Nancy/Ace, 14461 words, rated T
Summary: When Nancy returns home for the holidays after her first semester at college, she and Ace venture down the road not taken.
Excerpt from Chapter 4:
Nancy wakes up on Christmas Eve to find Ace lying on his side, one cheek smushed against his pillow, the blanket drifted halfway down his bare chest. He’s watching her, an unreadable expression on his face that dissolves as her sleepy eyes focus on him.
“You know it’s not polite to stare,” she mumbles.
“Can’t help it. It’s my last chance to see you like this.”
He might as well have punched her in the chest.
It’s too early for Nancy’s heart to ache this hard — she feels like she’s drowning, fear and loss and longing taking up all the space in her chest until there’s no room for air.
So she rolls on top of him, morning breath be damned, and kisses him with all the yearning and desperation she’s been holding inside for the last two days. (And, if she’s honest, for a lot longer than that.)
She can’t bring herself to say the words, but maybe her mouth can tell him anyway.
He responds as if he understands, one hand in her tangled red hair and the other on her hip, his fingers hungry. And while it’s good and passionate and satisfying, it’s also frantic and frenzied, every touch far too final.
Nancy feels like a condemned woman receiving her last rites, her deathbed confession left unspoken until much too late.
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