Quality time

“Hold still. Or I’m gonna smudge the eyeliner by accident.” I try to hold my laugh in and take a deep breath for which I earn a look. “What? Am I not allowed to breathe?” I giggle and Nat sits back and shakes her head, grinning. “You can breathe when I’m done with your make-up.” I roll my eyes playfully.

“Got all the laughs out?”“Yes, Ma’am.” I put on a serious face which makes her laugh. I can only hold that face for a few seconds, before I burst out laughing. It takes us a few minutes to calm ourselves and Nat leans forward again, with the eyeliner in her hand. I slowly lift one hand up to her face and brush the hair out of her face and behind her ear. Careful not to distract her, I lower my hand and place both on her thighs which are on either side of me since she’s sitting on top of me. My eyes are focused on her face. She is stunning and so adorable when she concentrates. The tip of her tongue touches her upper lip when she concentrates and her eyes are glued to mine while she slowly and carefully draws the eyeliner. We are almost done and she only has to do a few more things. It took a little while because in the beginning we were laughing a lot until we got a bit calmer. While she draws the eyeliner with one hand, her other one cups my face to keep me from moving too much. Her eyes light up and she sits up a little, looking at her work and smiling. “You look great.”My heart warms up at her compliment and I have to fight the reflex to say it back immediately.

“Now, for the last touch.” She holds up a lipstick.“Can’t I just take some of yours?” I ask and smirk at her. She shakes her head and grins, while applying some onto her own lips. “Alright, kiss me. But not with tongue or it won’t work.” I pretend to pout a little but it turns into a smile as her lips come closer to mine and I close my eyes while her soft lips touch mine.She pulls away and holds herself up with one arm, hovering over me. “And now smack them a little.” She does it herself and I mimic her. “How does it look?” “A little bit like someone kissed you because it’s not really neat but good.” “Oh, I wonder how that could have happened.” I say sarcastically and scrunch my nose a little. “I don’t know, but let me fix it.” Nat grabs a wipe and carefully wipes the lipstick from above and under my lips away.

“Done.” She smiles and looks at my face, proud of herself and happy with what she did. “Wanna see?”I nod and she gets off me and we both stand up. We go to her mirror and I look at myself.

It’s different, not in a bad way, it’s just unusual. But her work is great. “It looks amazing, babe.” I turn around to face her. “Thank you. For the compliment and for letting me do your make-up, I had a lot of fun.”

“Me too.” I wrap my arms around her waist and pull her closer. “But the lipstick…” I muffle her protest with a kiss and feel her smile into it.