I wanted her the moment I saw her, wanted her so badly I didn't even feel bad about it, not at first at least. Not just in the physical sense, I wanted to possess her, to be the only person allowed to say, "She's mine." I don't know how we ended up beside each other, but I remember her first, "Hey," and that brilliant smile with a clarity that will never fade. It is the rock upon which my church is built - unshifting and impervious.
We spent those first days just making each other laugh. I love her voice, but her laugh is something special. It shoves back the dark corners of my mind with its brilliant glow. Maybe she exaggerates it for my benefit, providing a lilting succession of uplifting phonemes when a more subdued chuckle would be apt, but if it's something she's eager to provide, I'll take all I can get.
Obsession plays no game fairly; it's really just a nice word for addiction. As we unraveled our lives to each other, we tangled ourselves together, always shoulder to shoulder, not caring if anyone noticed that we looked like two awkward, horny teenagers.
Pain is directly proportional to distance times time. I barely survived the evenings when we were apart, constant communication my only lifeline. Silly pictures that captured our lives, like the time we unwittingly had the same breakfast, made the day bearable. We were gleefully addicted to each other.
For me, it was wonderful and terrible. Life at home was awful, and no matter how genuine my feelings, I was using her to escape. It wasn't fair to her, and I didn't know when my situation would change, so I backed away.
The despair was instant and incessant. No matter where I directed my thoughts, her face was there waiting - the perfect drug. I raged at my life, and in that rage I found the power to change it. I shattered everything around me, picked up the shards I valued, and escaped my prison of mirrors.
"It's over. I need to be with you." As soon as I pressed send I was full of the worst terror I've ever felt. Doubt sat heavily on me while fear mocked me. My heart pounded in my chest, and I cursed myself for making a terrible mistake until I received a response after a time that felt like an eternity but was probably best measured in seconds.
Her response was simple and perfect, like disinfectant sunlight. "When?" My life floated upwards, suddenly relieved of the steady burden that had strained my heart and my hope.
"Tomorrow?"
"You don't ever have to ask."
Tomorrow was beautiful and new, with a delicious core of familiarity. The person I needed most had been returned to me, and I did my best to suffocate her with attention and affection. Moments of honesty brought new bonds, stronger than the old, forged on the altar of knick knacks I could never give her, nestled on a shelf beside my bed. We snatched every opportunity to be close, but our reservoirs of need couldn't be drained by simple proximity.
The day after that, and every feasible subsequent day, I had her for lunch. The sweet taste of her that accompanied each moan and scream was life-giving nectar, and I poured her messily down my throat, never sated and always thrilled with the opportunity for lustful gluttony.
When she was limp from being devoured, I took her like I wanted, deeply, slowly, but not for my sake. "Come for me," I told her as I filled her, and she did, as rapidly and repeatedly as her body and mind could muster, glorious each time, but never enough. "Come for me," and she shook and wailed in my grasp, sweat, tears, and pussy soaking us both. "Come for me," I begged, never caring about anything but her ecstacy, terrified of what might happen when it ended.
Addiction is never static. Chasing that dragon is how we ended up in a sex shop. I knew what I wanted as soon as we went inside. Sure, the sign said they were for covering your lover in homemade, organic, preservative-free whipped cream, but the need for a middleman was just an illusion.
Box in one hand, joined together with the other, we wandered the store. Lingerie didn't interest us; she's best served naked, and we rarely had the time or patience to unravel something wound around her. She stroked a pair of handcuffs coated with shaggy fur wistfully, but they were quickly annotated with, "next time," and a side eye that made blatant promises. Toys of all sorts were momentarily entertaining, but it's my job to pleasure her, and I know best how to use my own tools.