She waited nervously for his arrival. She had long since placed the CD player by the door and the food on the table. The sweet melodic sounds of Sara Brightman's voice filled the small room as she paced back and forth from the front door of the suite to the door leading outside to the patio. Thinking that it might be easier waiting outside, she took her magazine and went outside to the porch swing.
What a lovely setting. He could not have chosen a more perfect place for their first meeting! Even though it was late fall, there were still patches of color from several varieties of flowers clinging to life. They were all the more noticeable and spectacular against the stark bareness of the trees and bushes that had long since dropped their summer foliage. She sat on the wooden slats of the swing gazing at the beauty around her, but not truly seeing it as her mind kept wandering to thoughts of the man she was to soon meet.
She couldn't stop wondering what he would actually look like, smell like, feel like, taste like. She wondered if he was feeling the same butterflies she had fluttering within her mid section. She couldn't sit still...even the normally soothing rocking action of the swing could not quell the rising edginess. Okay, sitting wasn't helping, she thought, and besides it was quite colder outside than she had anticipated. Her nose was starting to get cold! Just what she needed...to greet him with a stuffy or drippy nose! Yikes! That would never do! She would be mortified! Definitely time to go back inside she decided.
Once inside their suite she again took inventory, making sure all was as she had planned. Nothing needed rearranging (drat, she thought, at least that would have given her something to do while awaiting his arrival!). She started the CD over and sat down on the couch with her cross stitch magazine. Making a concentrated effort to pay attention to the words and designs before her eyes, she tried to mentally catalogue the ornaments that she might stitch for family members this Christmas. Just as her anxiety was lessoning a bit, she heard voices in the hall. It must be him!
As the door to the suite opened, she was taken slightly aback at how attractive he was in person. The few photos she had seen certainly did not do his features justice. There was a hesitancy and shyness to his smile, but in his eyes she could see a fire smoldering. As he let the luggage he carried drop to the floor, she moved closer to him. Without taking their eyes from each other, they glided into each others arms, finally sharing the embrace they had so often fantasized about.
Mmmm...it felt as comfortable and inviting as she knew it would. Their bodies fit as neatly together as two parts of a whole. She could feel his body tremble slightly, and smiled to herself as she gauged his reaction to her touch. Her head tucked into the curve of his shoulder, she inhaled the fragrance of his cologne and male body. What a heady scent! She didn't want to leave the haven of his arms, but lifted her head to share a kiss. Their gazes locked, he lowered his head as she raised hers...lips meeting in a fleeting, feathered sweep. A low moan escaped from the back of her throat, and she pressed her lips fiercely to his. They had waited so long.
Minutes passed as they devoured each others mouths. Tongues searching and finding, sparring with each other, playing a game of hide and seek. They explored every nook and curve of their lovers' mouth and lips, at times playful, at times passionate, and always hungrily. Without notice or conscious thought, the lovers' hands came up to hold each other's face, bring the kisses to an even deeper level.