My mind races. I sit at the wheel of my car wondering if I can really do this. Should I run to you and a future that I have only dreamed about or away from you and back to all I know to be safe? Indecision clouds my mind as I exit my vehicle, one step closer to what my heart craves. I pause at your door. Is this where my final decision is to be made? Somehow I doubt it. I grasp the doorhandle. Strange that it should feel so warm on such a cool evening. Or is that my own body heat that I am feeling? As I twist the handle I am mildly surprised to find it unlocked. But of course it is. We have been planning our first encounter for weeks. Thus far I have carefully followed your explicate instructions. Can I complete the task in front of me? Dare I? Dare I not?
As I step across the threshold into your living room, I realize I am holding my breath. I find myself slightly amused at what is before me. Looking around I see that it is just a room. A tastefully decorated room at that. What was I expecting? Leather padded walls? Red velvet curtains? Medieval racks in the middle of the room, complete with chains and restraints? It is just a room. Then I realize, it is not just a room. It is your room, your house, and your domain. Am I an interloper or a part of all of this? Somehow I feel like both.
I look around the room for some sign of welcome, some kind of instruction, any encouragement for me to continue this journey, but there is none. I knew there would not be. I must come to you of my own free will. Uncertainty washes over me again. Do I have the courage to turn away from what feels so right? Do I have the strength to submit to you completely?
I look down the hall and see a bit of light escaping from under your bedroom door. It draws me in as a lighthouse beckoning a sea weary sailor. I begin the longest walk of my life down your short hallway. What is waiting for me at the end? Will I finally find my true self or will I be lost forever?
I hesitate beside your bathroom. I have been traveling for a long time. I feel the need to freshen up before I face you. Or is a need to procrastinate? Either way I flip on the light. I smile again, seeing so much of you in this room. It is a man's bathroom. As I finger the red rose you have placed in the budvase I spent hours agonizing over, making sure it was the perfect housewarming gift, I realize that a part of me is here also. A small feeling of comfort sweeps over me as I sense that I am already a part of this new and wondrous world.
A quick fluff and fingercomb of my hair and a reapplication of the "slut red" lipstick that you didn't have to remind me to wear, and I am out of excuses to tarry any longer. I look at the toilet but resist the call of nature, knowing you will help me take care of that later. I am ready.
Am I ready? Ready to give myself to you, mind, body and soul? How can I do that? How can I not do that? Do I really have a choice anymore?
I turn off the light as I leave the bathroom, take a deep breath and reach for your door. It opens much more quickly than I imagined it would and suddenly I am on the other side of the door. Is it the right side or the wrong side? I am becoming more and more confident in the answer to that.