It's not that I don't want this, it's that I want it so much I'm scared to mess it up, so please realise that being hesitant can be a great thing, a good omen, because I love you.
Though you are so warm I feel like I am in the wrong place, as if such comfort is only meant for others. I could loose myself in your words and the depth of your eyes; I could feel at home. Yet after so long of dancing around the needs and wants of others, always having to give so much of myself, this feels foreign. Even though you are the only water in this desert, I stand still and just watch, tempted but paralyzed.
At the tree-line River raises her hand, eyes scanning the grassland beyond. She always does this just in case, even though the chances of danger are so tiny. I guess that's why we trust her to lead, there is so much caution in her bravery.
When Ian speaks she just looks at him as if he were a radio and not a person who is there to be interacted with. It is as if the words are still circulating her mind and not yet allowed to flow outward into the world.
When Luke is just inches away Hayla stops and just gazes, soaking in the warmth of his eyes. This is what she's dreamt of, just the two of them, finally alone. After a moment she raises her hand to his face and lets tears fall, "Sometimes, my love, in this life, there are no good moves."
Jade paused at the doorway, letting her eyes roam the room before anyone noticed she was there. She'd have to go in, she knew she would, but at least this way her mind had a few moments longer to prepare.
I hesitate because I need to get this right first time, there are things in life that are that way, and the consequences of an error would forever haunt me.