Jaila Lovers At Dusk

[Lovers At Dusk]

Jaila

We lay side-by-side, limbs strewn across the soft summer grass. The sky was painted yellow and red, casting a warm shadow down onto our skin. I stared at the sky as I listened to his voice float through the breeze and back to my ears. I felt him shift beside me, his eyes tracing the curve of my face, starting at my forehead, moving slowly down through my eyelashes, up the slope of my nose, and ending at the grin on my lips. My eyes flickered up to his face and I appreciated the soft wisps of fire that framed his face and the freckles that danced on his cheeks. I exhaled a soft breath before rolling over to be in his arms fully. The warmth that spread through us was not the sun’s final attempt at burning, nor the body heat that mingles between any two people; it was the heat of a young love that kept us warm that night.