She resists a moment longer, lingering in the doorway, arms crossed over her chest and a smile on her lips as she laughs, lingering because she wants to watch him for a moment longer, to watch him and wonder if he knows the power he holds over her, the way the smile he’s wearing makes her heart ache with love for him. He has a way of inciting a mad recklessness within her and, in this moment, it makes her imagine pulling him inside and frantically freeing him of his soggy uniform, fingertips slipping hastily over buttons, pushing damp linen over broad shoulders, the warmth of him against her, and the taste of water upon his skin. That’s the Catholic within her, she surmises, that desire to taste the almighty, bread and wine, body and blood, the transubstantiation of man into God ( which is what Jack might as well be to her ). Blasphemous? Yes. But this whole war is an exercise in sin and hers, she wagers, is but a minor infraction in comparison.
She steps out into the rain, turns her face to the sky, and flings her arms out wide. The rain feels clean as it seeps through her clothes and wets her skin. She waits until she’s dripping wet before she throws herself into his arms in a mess of soaking clothes and sopping hair, laughing like a madman. Her arms are wrapped around his shoulders, her legs clinging to his waist, forehead pressed to his and eyes filled with laughter. ❝ ¡Bueno, bailamos! ❞ She presses the syllables into his mouth with kisses. ❝ Bailamos, bailamos. ❞