hi leila for the ask game: hard like a rock, cold like stone is a fav of mine
Hi, Maggie!!!
Oh gosh, for hard like a rock, cold like stone, it was DEFINITELY the scene with one of my FAVOURITE descriptions of Ben’s eyes I’ve written
Ben turns over the box of chocolate in his hands, his eyes alight and his grin unwavering. She should have brought him a more meaningful present, Devi thinks for a brief second, but Ben’s radiant, glowing, smile makes those thoughts fade away. All she can think about is how happy she’s made him, how happy she is to make him happy.
(Selfishly, she loves making him happy so she can catch a glimpse of his incandescent smile, but she realizes she also just wants him to be happy. This idea should come as a surprise to Devi, that she’s so invested in Ben’s happiness, but it doesn’t, it feels like an inevitability.)
When Ben smiles like that at her, it’s impossible not to smile back and so she does, her grin splitting her face wide. “Happy birthday, Ben.”
She’s so close to him she can count his eyelashes and she finds herself studying the blue of his eyes. His irises are a pale bright blue, like the crackling, simmering, boiling surface of the hottest of stars. She remembers learning about stars, how the coldest ones are red, how the hottest, most explosive, catastrophic ones are intensely, impossibly blue. How blue flames are symbolic of complete combustion and the release of powerful amounts of energy and luminosity. That’s the best way to describe Ben’s eyes, luminous. A source of enticing energy that makes the air between them electric, kinetic.
Devi realizes she’s been staring at Ben for far too long and her heart begins to beat loudly and confusingly in her chest. She coughs and draws back to put a more acceptable distance between them.
Send me one of my fic titles and I’ll tell which was THAT SCENE for that fic.
