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Dani watched as the moonlight rippled across the waves, reflecting off the dark water filling it with silver-white streaks, that view paired the sound of the waves crashing against the rocks, mixed with the light crackle of the dying fire seemed like a nice end to the first day of a weekend camping trip with her friends.
Friends.
It seemed a fitting word for some of the people she was with, Hannah and Owen, Peter and Rebecca all four of them her friends. But there was one person that word didn’t seem to fit anymore.
Especially not now.
Not after they had been sleeping together casually for weeks (in secret). They were friends, obviously, and had been for a while. But that word still didn’t feel right. Not when there seemed to be more hanging between them.
More behind every kiss, every touch.
More behind every time they had sex (sometimes at least).
Their arrangement had stemmed from a late-night conversation about how long it had been since either of them had sex. Jamie feeling brave with three beers in her system as she proposed the idea to Dani, and Dani had been brave in saying yes. Now most things between them seemed to happen in the glow of the moonlight, each kiss, each look, every flirty comment whispered to each other in the smoking shelters of pubs or clubs. Both of them always feeling braver at night.
They seemed to do a lot together under the moonlight like now, as they sat under the glow of the moon, and the dying fire, while Jamie sang softly and strummed at her guitar gently.
Her voice filtering into the night making heat spread through Dani’s body she knew Jamie’s voice well, how soft it sounded when she would moan Dani’s name, how gravelly and low it would be whenever she called Dani a good girl. She knew those hands well, how strong they were, yet could touch so gently, they’d had sex in many ways, but one thing was a constant, Jamie was always soft after sex, when they were laid in bed, her fingers moving slowly up and down her back soothing her. With the curtains open, moonlight filtering into the room, along with the sound of the streets below them.
No, friends definitely didn’t feel fitting anymore, and yet, they weren’t anything more than that either, they were simply two people who were sleeping together, and yet, something that had started out so casually now seemed to be filled with feelings.
Or at least that’s how it felt to Dani.
She hoped Jamie felt the same.
As she turned her head to face Jamie, she felt completely floored by the other woman.
Dani had always known Jamie to be beautiful, had thought it from the moment she’d met her, and every time she had seen her after that. Was sure that she had never in her whole life seen someone as beautiful as Jamie. But here, sitting in the moonlight, with the fire glowing just in front of them, Dani realised the only way to describe Jamie was perfect. From the angle of her jaw to the slope of her nose, the light dusting of freckles across her cheeks, and the fullness of her lips. Jamie was ethereal, and she had no doubt in her mind about it, and she couldn’t believe a woman like Jamie actually existed.
"Dani are you alright?" She asked, pulling Dani from her thoughts, she blinked her eyes a few times and gave Jamie a soft hum and a questioning look in return, "You were miles away then... Hannah and Owen were saying goodnight to us but you seemed more interested in something else," she smirked. Dani looked over her shoulder to see Hannah and Owen slipping into their tent with wide smiles on their faces, and she didn't need to be a genius to know what they had taken their leave to do (the same thing Peter and Rebecca had left to do earlier and what she hoped she and Jamie would be doing later), "You're alight, yeah?"
Dani smiled and nodded her head slowly, "Yeah... no, I'm fine..." her smile shifted into a smirk, "You just look really hot tonight... I love when you sing..." she admitted, shuffling closer to Jamie.
"You do?" Jamie asked, a smirk of her own crossing her face, as she placed her guitar on the floor by her feet, Dani nodded her head slowly, moving closer and closer to Jamie feeling overwhelmed with the need to kiss her and touch her (as she often did whenever they were alone), and so she leaned forwards, her lips barely touching Jamie's before the dark-haired woman pulled back.
"Are you okay?" Dani asked, worrying seeping into her system.
Jamie nodded her head slowly, "Yeah..." she sighed softly, "But we've got a problem, Poppins."
“Oh no,” Dani replied, feeling her heart sinking slightly, a lump rising in her throat.
"Yeah... I know this was supposed to just be a really casual thing... but I don't think that I can just keep doing the casual thing with you," she admitted, "I'm pretty in love with you and I have been for a while... might actually be part of the reason I even suggested doing this... I just didn't really know how to go about it... but I thought I was brave enough to ask you to do this... thought I should be brave and tell you the truth... I've just never been good at this stuff..." she shrugged.
Dani smiled softly, shaking her head, feeling happier than she had in years, "I think you're better than you think you are... and since we're being brave tonight... I'm pretty in love with you too..." she replied.
She watched as a wide smile spread across Jamie's face before she placed her hands on either side of Dani's face and pulled her into a kiss.
Moments under the moonlight with Jamie were definitely Dani’s favourites.
