Thirsty Thursdays #2: First Kiss

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Thank you to everyone who participated or even read our first post last week. It was greatly appreciated. Now it's a new week and a new topic. This week we are talking about that beautiful thing called "The First Kiss". We all have them and love them. We love reading them as well. Here are a couple of our favorites.

Book: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
Characters: Tana and Gavirel

"For a moment, she shrank back automatically, thinking he was going to bite her. Then, stunned, she realized that wasn’t what he intended to do at all. His lips brushed hers lightly, as though he was giving her the chance to push him away. She squeezed her eyes shut, to blot out the terrible thing she was about to do, and pulled him closer.

She wasn’t supposed to want this.

When he kissed her again, she gasped against his cold mouth—her breath held too long since he didn’t need to breathe at all—her tongue sliding against his, brushing against sharp teeth. He was careful, but she still felt the drag of their points against her lower lip. The cool press of his body made her skin feel fevered.

He pulled away from her and touched his mouth, his face full of a gentle amazement. “I didn’t remember it was like that.”

Tana’s heartbeat seemed to have moved into her whole body and thrilled it with a single speeding pulse. Everything was a little blurred at the edges and she wanted—she wanted him to feel like she did, like he’d done something forbidden, wanted to give him something he’d like and really wasn’t supposed to have, something that would feel wrong, something he wanted.

"Kiss me again,” she whispered, reaching up, her fingers sliding through his hair. She almost didn’t know herself as she moved against him. He bent helplessly toward her.

She bit her tongue. Bit it hard, the pain chasing through her nerve endings and alchemizing into something close to pleasure. When her mouth opened under his, it was flooded with welling blood.

He groaned at the taste of it, red eyes going wide with surprise and something like fear. His hands gripped her arms as he pushed her body back against the brick of the wall, holding her in place. He’d been careful before, but he wasn’t being careful now as he licked her mouth; and it amazed her as much as it terrified her. He kissed her ferociously, savagely, their lips sliding together with bruising fervor. The pain in her tongue became a distant throbbing. Her fingers dug into the muscles of his back, their bodies pressed so close that he must have felt every hitch in her breath, every shuddering beat of her heart. And as scared of him as she had been, right then she was more frightened of herself.

Gavriel reeled back from her, lips ruddy. He wiped his mouth against the back of his hand, her blood smearing over his skin. Gazing at her for a long moment with something like horror, as though he was seeing her for the first time, he spoke. “You are more dangerous than daybreak. Before Tana could reply, he stepped into the lengthening shadows of morning and was gone."

SWOON! Gavriel took my #1 spot for most swoon-worthy vampire. His and Tana's first kiss was hot, unexpected, everything I wanted! Don't get me wrong, I'm all for sweet buildup and small tokens of affection, but this 'go big or go home' kiss left me yearning for more of these two.

Book: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Characters: Cath and Levi

"Then I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home..."

Cath Closed the book and let it fall on Levi's chest, not sure what happened next. Not sure she was awake, all things considered.

The moment it fell, he pulled her into him. Onto him. With both arms. Her chest pressed against his, and the paperback slide between their stomachs.

Cath's eyes were half closed, and so were Levi's - and his lips only looked small from afar, she realized, because of their doll-like pucker. They were perfectly big, really, now that she had a good look at them. Perfectly something.

He nudged his nose against her, and their mouths fell sleepily together, already soft and open.

When Cath's eyes closed, her eyelids stuck. She wanted to open them. She wanted to get a better look at Levi's too-dark eyebrows, she wanted to admire his crazy, vampire hairline - she had a feeling this was never going to happen again and that it might even ruin what was left of her life, so she wanted to open her eyes and bear some witness.

But she was so tired.
And his mouth was so soft.

And nobody had ever kissed Cath like this before. Only Abel had kissed her before, and that was like getting pushed squarely on the mouth and pushing back.

Levi's kisses were all taking. Like he was drawing something out of her with soft little jabs of his chin.

She brought her fingers up to his hair, and she couldn't open her eyes.

Eventually, she couldn't stay awake.

I mean who doesn't want a first kiss like that? All sweet and sleepy and warm and perfect? *Raises hands and feet* Before this kiss, I didn't feel any particular way about Levi. He was sweet and kinda cute. But that changed with this. This kiss had swagger. It had everything Cath needed. It was new and that was the biggest thing. Cath & Levi 4EVA!

What are some of YOUR favorite first kisses?

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