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Twisted But Precious: The Morning After the Sunrise Dance
Date: 10/30/2014, Categories: Love Stories, Author: flytoomuch, Rating: , Source: LushStories
the deer you made.” Aya laughed. She held out her other bare forearm. John wrote with her eyeliner pencil. “This is my number. Let’s work out the dates. Bali it is.” He blushed. “But no Rena okay?” His face must be a bright shade of red he knew, but he wanted Aya to understand. “Just you and me. Deal?” She laughed easily. Her eyes danced. “Yeah of course. Don’t expect that threesome thing all the time handsome. This is Burning Man after all.” They both laughed at the same time. John and Aya walked out of the huge white tent hand in hand. John looked up at the bright desert sun. It was rising towards its apex. It certainly was a new day dawned. The morning after the Sunrise Dance felt like a new beginning. John breathed in deeply and sighed contentedly. Aya squeezed his hand and their eyes connected. Whatever they had found together was deeply instinctive and incredibly frail. John understood that and he realized whatever it was needed to be nurtured and protected. Perhaps their love, their connection, or whatever you wanted to call it, had been forged in conditions not normally accepted by society. True, Burning Man was an extreme time and place. And yet the gifts serendipity bestowed could not be taken for granted. What had occurred was twisted and yet precious. John had a new purpose in life. He was holding Aya’s hand gently as they walked into the bright light of a new day. His eyes saw how the little gold bumblebees on Aya’s blouse glowed gold in the near mid-day sun. It was the morning after and he was happy. John thought of the future. He looked around the empty vastness of the desert. It might be empty, but he had a future now, a real future. Aya would return to Arizona and he would return to Hong Kong. But plans needed to be made. Hotel reservations and airline tickets needed to be booked. He was wearing a smile. Life was good. Sometimes John realized you just needed to say “what the fuck”. Serendipity will take care of the rest. The End