I think I have found Heaven on Earth. If so, whether I am truly that "li’l devil" you always joked I was, or not, I feel like a living angel. It all started when Joe, the man I told you I have been living with recently, came home from work the other day.
I wish we had the time for you to meet him. I will be sending you a photo so you can see why I joke that, at 6'4", and with arms of steel, if my "Giant Giuseppe," as I call him, holds his arms straight out, I can use them as chin up bars being built as I am. It's incredible, though, how for a man so athletically strong, my bear is as gentle sometimes as a lamb.
Anyway, the other day, he was exceptionally happy as he almost bounced through the door without touching the floor. I don't think he took a single breath before he blurted out, "You will never believe it!!! I swear, you will never believe it!!! I got the Ponce de Leon assignment. I got it!! I got the assignment! They took a look at the plans for the project, they felt mine was best, and O'Hallahan chose me."
I knew this was Joe's dream of a lifetime. His company was one of the largest developers of time sharing resorts in the world. They wanted to develop a new resort on an island called Isla de Ponce de Leon, an island that according to all Joe spoke about it, had very few inhabitants. It was named after the explorer who discovered the “Fountain of Youth.”
“People can discover their own Fountain of Youth, and be young at heart, again, even at 90,” Joe laughed as he described what had been a virtually unnoticed speck in the Pacific. It was easy for his company to purchase all the land from the native inhabitants, and turn what he called his “Isla D’Amor; the Island of Love," into "the foremost romantic hideaway spot of the world."
The natural flora, the tropical palms, and those gargantuan pink flowers Joe brought home after his first visit, were breathtaking. My hero, the love of my life, had built tremendously popular time shares for "lovers of all ages" in Cancun, San Juan, Vegas, the Poconos, and elsewhere. And with it, he build a tremendous reputation for himself.
Nothing, though, compared to this assignment of building a resort, where, as he explained, “the princes and the paupers can find their separate hideaways.” The sun seemed to always shine. And when it set, or greeted a new dawn, it created a panorama no Renaissance man nor modern artist could capture.
Yes, this was HIS dream of a lifetime. But, as I looked into the lipid blue eyes of joy from the man I had gotten to know and love these past four months, my heart sank. It would take a year or two, maybe more, for the final project. I didn't know if I could bear what for me would be the torture of his being several thousand miles away for so many long stretches of time.
I tried so damn hard to hold back the tears, asking myself "Why now? Why me? I have waited all my life for this...why now?" I turned away so he could not see the tears. Choking back as many as I could, I simply said, "That's great. It is what you always wanted."
Joe walked over to me, and turned me to face him. In that baritone voice that so many times made my world stand still, lost in time, he reassured me, "No, it is only part of what I always wanted."
His thumbs went to my eyes, by now filled with tears that flowed freer than the waves upon the shores of Isla de Ponce de Leon. He brushed the corner of my moist lids and my cheeks with his hand. That soft, delicate sweep of his digits against the tender flesh of my face somehow, no matter how stormy the weather, always seemed to bring a silver lining to my cloud.
His eyes burned a trail deeply into my soul as he asserted, "I am looking at what I have always wanted, Jackie. I have longed all my life for someone who can love me, someone who could be more than a lover, more than a friend, more than my best friend. I need you as I have never needed anyone in the world, because you are my world.
"I won't let that go," he told me, and for the first time I was beginning to know that big boys do cry as he held back tears of his own. "I spoke to the boss. I need an administrative assistant. I need someone who knows public relations, and can woo a crowd. I need you, Jackie, more than you know. I will not leave my heart on the other side of the world. The company is willing to pay you what you make now at Chambers, Porter & O'Toole.
"Jackie, I know it is so far from your family, but...” he stammered. I could tell, as he quivered, the fear inside of him that he would lose me was as nightmarish a thought as it was for me to be without him. He tried to compose himself, as that Adam’s Apple of his seemed to become as large as an orchard, “I know you'd be leaving your friends, your family, for so long a time...and…"
He didn't get a chance to finish. "Oh don't you know all I want right now is you? Don't you know that, Joseph Andrew? I love you," and for the first time, I knew what that word “love” meant. I know the bottomless pit feeling in my stomach that would never go away if Joe ever did. The tears that blocked my vision of his growing smile ran down my face like Niagara Falls. But, unlike the torrent of moisture that started pouring from my eyes, these were streams of utter joy. All I could do was put my hands around his shoulders, and jumped into his arms.
As he ecstatically spun us around, I just thrust my tongue deeply inside of his mouth. I was so much in love. I was so happy, I am surprised the force of my tongue did not break a molar.
I ran my fingers through his jet-black hair. I am so glad I had not set the table for dinner, because Joe rested me on top of the kitchen table. His hunger, his intense desire for my love, was so apparent as he reached for the buttons of my blouse. I honestly think if he were anyone else, he would have just tore my blouse open, and I probably would have allowed him. My hungry eyes and yearning body were so intensely turned on. I just grabbed his head and shoved it hard onto my cleavage.
I wanted him to drink from my nipples, if that were only possible. I prayed one day a baby we created would make it possible, and both the baby and Joe, in time, would be doing just that. He clamped his teeth onto my breasts, as if he was the pliers and I was the nut.
Speaking about nut, my hand unzipped his pants faster than I think I ever did, I wanted that nut, that gorgeous 10-inch tool of his in my hand. Others boasted about their size, and what they thought was a carrot was merely a sprout. Joe never bragged about it, although he was proud of how I sometimes nearly choked when my mouth surrounded it.
I was in heaven each time Joe's organ was embedded inside of me. Size did matter to me, and I always knew it, but not the size of anything below the belt. No, it was the size of the most sensual organs of them all, the one above the shoulders and just below them: the mind and the heart. The size of Joe's heart, and the amount of love that pumped through his bloodstream, always seemed to fuel the size of the penis and the amount of pleasure I felt each time we engaged in intimacy.
He always believed actions spoke louder than words, and he was truly a man of action, whether on the dance floor or on the floor of our apartment when the sparks started flying and the bedroom seemed too far away.