intimate.

what did that word even mean? she wondered. intimacy, how do you know when you are intimately with someone, how do you understand that the moment you are living in is a moment of intimacy?

she didn't mean intimacy in a sexual way, though the word commonly referred to moments such as those.

no, the word intimate meant so much more than the animalistic nature of simple sex.

the way she saw it, intimacy meant getting close and personal with someone, seeing the side of them they tried to keep hidden from the windows of the world.