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“Fourteen…fifteen…”
Gradually Tara wakes up thanks to the sound of soft counting right in her ear. Her eyes flicker open as her head automatically moves to the side bringing her face to face with her wife. “Hon’?” She speaks softly not wanting to spook Rebecca when she seems so incredibly focused at the moment.
“Sorry, did I wake you?” Rebecca shifts herself just a little giving Tara some room. Her eyes drag up from Tara’s freckles to Tara’s barely opened eyes. She wears a sheepishly apologetic smile and pulls herself up more on her pillow leveling her eye sight with her wife’s.
“No no it’s fine, what are you uh counting?” Tara slides herself to lay on her side positioning her hands underneath her head to make herself comfortable.
Rebecca hesitates her teeth gently pull at her bottom lip before finally giving an answer to the simple question. “Freckles, your freckles.” She watches the way Tara’s nose scrunches up and how her eyebrows bunch together she silently wonders to herself if Tara was finding her behavior off-putting.
“Oh, why?” Tara merely asks without a hint of judgment seeping into her tone only genuine curiosity.
“I can’t sleep.” Rebecca admits with a small shrug of her shoulders.
“The sheep weren’t working huh?” Tara jokes. She’s unable to stop the edges of her lips from twitching up into a teasing grin. Her nose stays scrunched but her eyebrows relaxed helping to start melting away whatever small worry Rebecca held.
“Nope, they never do.” Rebecca retorts already she’s inching back to her spot closer to Tara.
“But my freckles work for you?” Tara questions while pulling one of her hands from underneath of head to tenderly comb her fingers through Rebecca’s hair.
“It’s weird it’s it?”
“No, no not at all!” Tara answers reassuringly now completely easing Rebecca’s mind. She lifts her hand from Rebecca’s head moving it back underneath her own head. “Would you like me to sleep on my side so you can get them all?” She playfully asks whilst wiggling her eyebrows in an attempt to get Rebecca laughing and of course it almost immediately works.
“You’re so weird.” Rebecca lets a last huff of soft laughter escape from herself before moving even closer to Tara. Their noses were now only inches away from touching resulting in warm smiles resting on both their faces.
“It’s part of my charm!” Tara proudly declares, her warm smile now shifting more into a smug smirk.
Rebecca says nothing in return choosing instead to silently admire the way the moonlight beautifully shines on her wife’s face. She still has no idea how someone can be so stunning. She swears Tara only gets more gorgeous every day. She is not exactly sure how long she spends silently staring but she knows it’s long enough for her to begin quietly counting Tara’s freckles again.
“This is so romantic.” Tara quips deciding to suddenly break the silence between them. “Let’s do this every night.” While pumping her eyebrows she leans forward to boop Rebecca’s nose with her own.
“You’re talking is kinda messing up my counting.” Now it’s Rebecca’s turn to wear the teasing grin.
“Wow, that is one of the nicest ways you have ever told me to shut up.” Tara laughs the amusement more than evident in her eyes. Without another word spoken Rebecca swiftly captures her lips into a kiss but as quickly as the kiss happens it ends. Though Rebecca does not fully pull back instead she rests her head against Tara’s pillow her eyes already begging closing. “Mmhm, okay message received, im shutting up.” Tara moves herself to give Rebecca enough room shifting back onto to lay on her back. She opens her arms for Rebecca to snuggle closer and like clockwork that is exactly what Rebecca does.