Sarah woke up feeling refreshed. She looked around the room and smiled. Such a lovely place and such a lovely holiday with the man she loved. Alex was asleep, breathing lightly. She looked around the room and spotted two small piles of envelopes on the desk, each wrapped up in a pink ribbon. Ah yes, the fantasies, she remembered. It was going to be an interesting day.
Alex stirred, waking up. He was a bit bleary eyed but smiled when he saw her. Before he said anything he reached up to kiss her on the lips. Without thinking his hand reached down to Sarah's lower back and then further down to feel her small, smooth bottom.
"Good morning Darling," he said, "how are you?"
"I'm feeling pretty good thank you, all the better for having my sexy husband waking up beside me. You might have remembered that today is going to be a fun day," she said, gesturing towards their fantasy envelopes.
"Ah yes," how could I forget? If I'm smiling it's because I love waking up on a day when I know I will be making love to you."
"Yes, that's true. I like that thought too," Sarah said, "but right now we don't know whose fantasy we are going to fulfil today, do we? How are we going to decide?"
"Let's keep it simple. Just one round of scissors, stone, paper."
Sarah didn't demur from that idea so on the count of three they each made one shape with their hand. Alex showed stone and Sarah chose scissors.
"You win!" said Sarah. "I don't know whether I'm pleased or not. What time does your fantasy start today?"
"Mmm...," said Alex, "I think about 4.30 this afternoon. As far as I know we haven't got anything else planned."
"Okay, sounds good," Sarah said. "After most of the day on the beach then."
It was yet another gorgeous Maldives day. Alex & Sarah spent most of it on the beach, except for lunch where they sat in the smaller resort café. Neither of them said anything but the previous day's agreement about eating lots of fruit continued. After lunch they put on their snorkels and were lucky enough to see a couple of sea turtles up close to the beach, so by mid-afternoon they were both in a good mood.
At about 4.15pm Sarah put down her novel. "Well, it's getting near to 4.30. Are you ready to head back to the villa now?"
Alex had been watching the clock all the time but only because he had been getting increasingly nervous about his fantasy. How would Sarah react? Still, there was no going back now. They packed up their things and went back to the villa.
Once inside, with the door closed, Sarah moved towards the bathroom. "I think I'm going to take a shower. Is that okay darling? I certainly need to freshen up a bit."
"Oh, hang on," Alex replied. "If it's okay I'm going to shower first. Why don't you sit down and read your book a bit more?"
"Okay," Sarah said, now intrigued. "I will leave you to it." She went just outside the villa and read for about ten minutes. Alex then emerged apparently wearing just a towel wrapped around him. But he was clutching one of the little envelopes which he gave to Sarah.
"This is for you," Alex said.
Sarah opened the envelope and read the little card inside....
MY FANTASY 1
I WOULD LIKE YOU TO GO AND TAKE A SHOWER. WHILE YOU ARE DOING THAT I WILL QUICKLY OPEN THE DOOR TO THE BATHROOM AND GIVE YOU THE NEXT INSTRUCTION.
While she had been outside Sarah's expectation levels had had time to increase and the Fantasy card left her a bit underwhelmed. All that Alex wanted her to do was take a shower? Oh well, she thought...she needed a shower and it was likely that tomorrow her husband was also going to be underwhelmed by his first Fantasy instruction from her. And it was clear that she wouldn't have to wait too long for his next instruction
She went into the bathroom, took off her bikini and got into the warm running water. She remembered the time a few days ago when Alex had been in the shower with her. That had been exciting. That husband of mine, she thought...quite a guy.
Alex had the room to organise but first he had to find a few things. The second instruction card -- tick. Sarah's short dressing gown was hanging up and easy to find -- tick. He opened Sarah's underwear drawer. Finding the right piece of underwear took a little longer but only because he had to rummage a little to find the right thing - tick. And he always found looking through Sarah's lingerie drawer a little...intoxicating. At the back of the drawer he saw a little fabric bag and a small box; he wondered what was in them but decided not to pry too much. Maybe that was a secret Sarah was keeping to herself.
He could hear that Sarah was in the shower but as a courtesy knocked on the door. She obviously couldn't hear his knock so he opened the door and carefully put the three things he was carrying on the floor.
Alex then set about preparing the bedroom.
Sarah's thoughts in the shower were interrupted by the noise of the bathroom door closing. She could see through the glass panel that Alex had left her dressing gown on the floor, together with the expected note card with her next Instruction. She quickly finished her shower, picked up her towel and dried herself off enough to go to investigate.
She opened the envelope and read the message inside.
MY FANTASY -- 2
WELCOME TO THE MALDIVES HONEYMOON MASSAGE SERVICE.
PLEASE PUT ON YOUR DRESSING GOWN AND THE UNDERWEAR OF YOURS ENCLOSED. I'M GOING TO BE A FEW MINUTES (TEN?) GETTING EVERYTHING READY SO YOU SHOULD HAVE TIME TO PUT ON A BIT OF MAKE-UP.