I stepped closer, our bodies pressing against each other. Mine – fully clothed. Lila’s – in a state of half dressed. Her skin was warm underneath my touch. She peeked at me through her thick lashes with a look in her eyes that should have told me something… but I couldn’t understand what she was trying to convey. She breathed. I breathed. The world came to a stop, and the colors faded away, leaving us in a state of black and white.

