-bangpov- Bella Rose - An Amazing Point Of View... Official
She leans closer. Her breath is mint and coffee. The world narrows to the space between her pupil and mine.
Scene: A sun-drenched, slightly messy artist’s loft. The air smells of turpentine and fresh linen. You are lying on a deep crimson velvet chaise lounge. Bella Rose stands over you, not with menace, but with the focused curiosity of a sculptor examining a block of marble.
From this angle—looking up past the gentle slope of her neck, past the pulse beating a lazy rhythm there—she looks like a benevolent goddess. Not untouchable. Just... above . In charge of the frame.
My perspective is fragmented. I see the frayed hem of her denim shorts. The tiny silver chain around her ankle. The way her tank top has slipped half an inch off her shoulder, revealing the strap of something lace and black. -BangPOV- Bella Rose - An Amazing Point of View...
"Perspective is everything," Bella says, finally looking directly down into the lens of my eyes. She smiles. It’s crooked. It’s a little bit dangerous. "From down there, I look like the whole sky, don't I?"
I can't answer. My throat is dry.
She crouches.
She shifts her weight. One sneaker-clad foot lands near my left shoulder. The floorboard creaks.
The ceiling is a blur of exposed wooden beams, but my eyes can’t reach them. They snag on the curve of her jaw instead. The light from the tall factory windows hits the side of her face, turning her skin into something edible—warm honey over porcelain.
Now, the BangPOV becomes intimate. The camera—my eyes—lose focus for a second as she enters my personal atmosphere. Her hair, a cascade of dark cherry and honey-brown, falls forward, creating a curtain. We are in our own tent now. A world of two. She leans closer
She reaches out. The tip of the dry paintbrush trails from my sternum up to my chin. It tickles. It burns.
"Yeah," she whispers, answering for me. "That's the point."
Penelope J. Corfield
Penelope J. Corfield is a historian, lecturer and education consultant. She currently serves as the President of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS).
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