Shane watched Carmen lay on her stomach and let her hands run onto the tanned, smooth skin. From the nape of Carmen’s neck, down to her shoulder blades and along her spine, till the small of her back. Shane, on her knees in between Carmen’s open legs, leaned down and kissed, kissed sweated skin. 

Blindly, her left hand reached for Carmen’s head. Shane balled her fist and tugged at Carmen’s hair, just slightly, as she bit down and nuzzled and nibbled Carmen’s side. Carmen arched her back, pressing her palms onto the mattress and closed her eyes. Her red lips were parted and her breath, labored. 

After tearing each other apart in the stall, Shane and Carmen had left the club wordlessly and unseen. They had driven home as fast as possible, and had barely made it to Shane’s bedroom. Time didn’t matter anymore and hours had passed and they hadn’t stopped – they were making up for all the months spent apart. 

Shane had let Carmen do to her things that she didn’t even thought realistically possible and, in doing so, she had felt a sudden peace invade her, like a long forgotten stillness of heart and mind. It was like swirling and turning into a dream. Except that… that wasn’t a dream. Not anymore. 

Shane rested her chest on Carmen’s back but didn’t apply too much pressure. She positioned her mouth near Carmen’s ear and spoke, scratchy and yet velvety. 

“I want to be inside of you again”. Shane’s hand stroked Carmen’s thigh, in close proximity to the warmest part of her. 

Carmen bit down her bottom lip and frowned, her eyes still closed. She covered Shane’s hand with her own. 

“I want to feel you inside of me again…”, she whispered.

Mary J. Blige’s voice started singing in the background.

”I wanna be with you, gotta be with you, need to be with you…
Chemistry was crazy from the get-go, neither one of us knew why
We didn’t build nothing overnight, ‘cause a love like this takes some time
People swore it off as a phase, said we can’t see that
Now from top to bottom they see that we did that
It’s so true that we’ve been through it
We got real shit… See baby we’ve been…”