Closer

As their laughs faded into the stillness of the night silence filled the void left behind. The two teenagers lay side by side on the oval - the smell of freshly mown grass lingering. At first the silence was merely a break in their conversation, a full stop after a particularly complex sentence. The dark clouds drifted overhead as the silence became ever more prolonged, an ellipsis after a sentence - the three dots leading into the unknown.

The boy and girl embraced the silence, happy enough to lie together in their own thoughts, contented knowing that they were in each others. Headlights swept over the oval as a car drove past in the distance - the two friends exchanged a smile, amused by the bizarre situation that they had found themselves in. The gaze held - a thoughtful moment as each tried to glean what the other was thinking. Another smile later their eyes were once more focused skyward on the clouds that hid the elusive stars - a softly spoken parallel between the thinly veiled feelings of the two young people.

This was not the first time the two had found themselves drawn together in such a situation - both were comfortable enough with each other to know exactly where things like this could end up. The night drew ever more still as frigid hands crept closer, their fingers meeting softly, before pulling each other in. With their hands together they broke the silence, and the gentle back and forth resumed - dotted with laughter and flirtatious grins.

They were sharing warmth - so absorbed in each other that they did not notice the devious explorations from the fingers of cold. The two young friends grew evermore daring with their flirtations as minutes grew into hours. Their interlocked fingers played silent games. Still talking their faces reached toward each.

Closer...

Closer...

Closer.

Their lips met, but whispered thoughts still leapt between the two until finally they gave into the pull of mutual affection, losing themselves in the moment of contact. The clouds drifted overhead - and the once illusive stars peaked through...gazing down on the two close friends embracing each other.