The kiss was still burning in your mouth when Joey guided you back to the car.

But this time, he didn’t open the front door.

He opened the back one.

You went up without hesitation, and he soon went behind you, closing the door with a muffled click.

The silence in there was dense.

Outside, only the distant sound of the wind and some cars passing too far to bother.

Joey settled sideways, his eyes fixed on you as if devouring you in thought. His breathing was still heavy, his chest rising and falling under the gray sweatshirt.

You were with your legs bent, your back leaning against the door, your heart beating fast.

The tension...

Alive, pulsating, cutting.

He ran his tongue over his lips, as if pondering something. Then he lowered his eyes and slowly got up again, fixing his with that firmness of someone who doesn’t lie - never with you.

“Tell me if I can touch you again now.”

The hoarse voice. Low.

But there was no hurry.

He didn’t move.

I expected it.

The Joey who didn’t force it.

That he only played with consent, even when his eyes said that he wanted to tear you with desire.

You took a deep breath and stretched out one of your hands, pulling him by the bar of his blouse.

Soft.

Decided.

“You never need to ask for permission.”

He bit his lower lip, almost as if suffering for a second - and then pulled you to his lap.

The hands, warm, firm, slid down his thighs, going up, tracing paths under the fabric. His mouth met yours as if he already knew exactly where to kiss - and where to stop just to provoke.

You gasped, the bodies fitting into the rhythm that only you knew.

The back seat got too small.

The world has gone too far away.

Joey pressed his forehead into his, his breath choppy.

“You destroy me, you know?”

“You like that,” you provoked, with a smile against his lips.

“I like it,” he admitted, with the deepest voice. “But I like it better the way you make me want to stay.”

He kissed you again. Deeper. Slower.

No hurry.

Because there, in the car, in the middle of nowhere, with the forgotten city outside - you were everything.