Song Of Teeth 1: The First Voice - Plot & Excerpts
He leaned across the precarious inches between them and touched his lips to hers: gently, unassuming. A little gurgle sighed in her throat, and she slowly pressed more firmly, and then drew back. She met his eyes again, smiled, and glanced down with a nervous cough. Mark knew his face was betraying the heat in his heart, but he trembled at noticing that the rich shade of her skin could not hide her flush of blood either. They both sat with their heads bowed a moment, not speaking. Rolling the tip of his tongue, he tasted the spearmint on his lips. Trying to change the subject, Mark asked, "Um, can I ask what happened to your dad?" The only change on her face was a slight crinkle in her brow, but somehow Tatiana's entire person drained. "I didn't see him much after that. A couple more times he took me exploring, and then he just stopped showing up. I felt really abandoned, especially since I thought we'd been having so much fun. Every place we went was this mysterious adventure, like the kids' detective novels I used to read.
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