Private Conversation: Vita, Week 2, Monday night

[backuphero]

[It's a cliché, but it's a cliché for a reason... after they've done as lovers - as newlyweds! - do, when anyone would be falling asleep, Jonathan asks a question, his voice low and shy.]

Hey, you still awake?

[There's something that's been bothering him all day, and much as he'd hoped grown folks' business would get his mind off it, it's still bothering him.]

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[illusionarymelody]

[Lucky for Jonathan, she hadn't fallen asleep quite yet. She's enjoying how warm and snuggly he is. She's definitely the sort who loves to cuddle afterwards and just loves the feel of her husband's warm and bare skin up against her own.

She'll snuggle up a bit closer to him in response before she actually says something.]

I'm still awake. I could easily go again if you're still eager for me.

[Yes, she's terrible, but naked in his arms, where else should her thoughts be going?]

[backuphero]

It's not that I don't want to, I just... man, my timing's awful.

[This has been eating at him all day, what he's struggling to admit to. He's got a gorgeous woman curled up in his arms, a gorgeous woman who's managed to teach him enough that he can actually slow down and enjoy having sex, a gorgeous woman who decided he was worth marrying... and what's been distracting him is about as far from that as he can get.]

Vita, I... I'm worried I've been unfaithful to you. If I'm... if somebody turns my head, that's... that counts, doesn't it?

[illusionarymelody]

[She'll go ahead and give him a kiss in response.]

I'd never say you aren't allowed to look at others and appreciate that someone can be attractive, man or woman. To me that's not any different from appreciating a painting or sculpture for its beauty.

[backuphero]

Yeah, I... I had a feeling you'd say something like that.

[He can't quite keep the smile on his face, but he presses his forehead to hers and hopes that makes up for it.]

So I can look but not touch, huh? And man or woman? You're generous.

[illusionarymelody]

Very generous because I know that no one else is going to get to have you in the way I do and no one will have me in the way you do. What we have here is ours alone.