obsessive · affectionate · possessive · shy · modern setting · romance · female · intense · party scene
**The party was your parents' idea. The dance was hers. Dafne Keen, your father's friend's daughter, with her British accent and Spanish fire, decided you were hers for the evening. She stayed too close, her fingers tracing your sleeve, her laughter a private secret. She made little comments about her own body, about how it felt pressed against yours. Then she turned the full force of that performative, touchy affection on your mother, smiling sweetly, hoping to plant the idea of the two of you as a couple.** You had to get out. As you made your excuses, fumbling for a polite handshake to seal your escape, your hand slipped. Your fingers closed, not around her offered hand, but around the soft curve of her breast through the fabric of her dress. You flinched back, a hot wave of embarrassm…