That weekend it was near impossible for Claire to concentrate on anything else besides the encounter in the café. She hadn't thought anyone had seen, but just to be careful she didn't talk about it. But every night as she lay between her crisp, cool sheets, her body burned, remembering the paths his eyes had traveled over her.
She wasn't sure if he was attracted to her or just appreciating a fine body. Either way, remembering the look he gave her made her shiver deep down in her core, a slow burn starting in her belly and radiating out to her fingers and toes.
As she lay down for the night on Sunday, Claire could feel a giddy anticipation for the coming day.
She was almost to class when she thought suddenly, "I should go home, I should just skip class for today... it will be so awkward to see him after that...and then...I can't miss class and I definitely want to see that gorgeous body of his...awkwardness will just have to do." With a new confidence in the day she strode the rest of the distance to the lecture hall and took her seat, in waiting for him to join the class.
As usual, he came into the classroom a few minutes late and, with a friendly grin, swept the hall with his eyes. His eyes met with Claire's, but she quickly turned away from it. She thought she heard a low chuckle as he turned for the podium. "He's laughing at me," she thought. "He's laughing cause he thinks I'm embarrassed...well, I'll show him." She turned her head to the front and casually looked at nothing while listening, avoiding his glance for now.
She thought she'd give him a tiny, little show to tease him, and to make him think twice about laughing at her expense. Without catching his or anyone's attention she slowly pulled the zipper down farther on her sweater, exposing the low, lacy black bra that she had on underneath. The lingerie gave her breasts a sexy, full look, with plenty of cleavage. She ran her fingertips over her collarbone to attract his attention.
She brought her gaze back around to lock squarely with his intense blue eyes. There it was again, that look. She shivered once, bit her bottom lip and fixed him with a sultry stare. Watching the changes in his eyes as he stared at her, trying to concentrate on the lecture he was giving, was fascinating. The look reflected in his eyes was an intense, passionate one, and watching him watching her was beginning to take its effect on her. Claire could feel her skin heat, as she felt herself getting more and more wet as each scorching second ticked by.
He cleared his throat and dismissed the class for the day. Claire hastily zipped up her sweater and made her way down the aisle toward the door. Just as her luck should put her, she was last in the line of students to exit. As she passed by Mr. Daughton, he stepped forward and his side brushed against hers. She felt the electric shock of heat move through her as she realized that it had been no accident on his part. He no longer simply appreciated what he saw, as she had thought. He wanted it, and apparently very badly. She glanced up and saw the confirmation in his eyes as she clumsily say goodbye and hurried out of the classroom.
"Oh god, oh god, oh my god..." was the constant litany in Claire's brain as she somnambulated back to her apartment. Something very serious was happening here, and she knew it wasn't going to end up to be one of those things you can just brush off and let fizzle. He was...Christ, he was fucking hot, he made her body burn and ache for things she needed and missed so badly. As she unlocked her apartment and stepped inside, she began thinking about the last time she had ever been so incredibly burning hot.
It had been 18 years before Claire lost her virginity. She was fine with that; she was fine with waiting until the "one" came along. But she soon realized that from the first exquisite taste of the sexual, she had to have more, and often. He first affair had been with an older boyfriend, who was, inevitably more experienced. But he had been respectful and never judgmental about her decision to wait. He had also successfully aroused her so incredibly badly that in a second she would have given her body to him.
One cool, summer night, he took her out for a picnic at a secluded park in the next town over. He unpacked the soft, cashmere blanket and spread it out on the ground along with the basket of food. Out of the basket he took a bottle of sparkling wine and a bowl of bright, juicy cherries. As sat down and poured the wine he urged her to sit on the blanket with him. She sat and stretched out her legs, leaning back on her elbows and looking at the sky. She felt his eyes on her and she turned her face slowly to his and saw that he was staring at her body, her face, his breathing heavy. She giggled nervously and snatched up her glass, sipping quickly. As she fidgeted, he seemed to calm a bit and she relaxed, though the way he had looked so hungry for her had made the fire creep up from her toes, until her cheeks were a dusky pink.
Leaning still on one arm she reached over to the bowl of cherries. God, but they looked delicious, as if he had chosen each and every one, assuring its perfection. She ran the tip of her tongue around the outside of the cherry, moaning in delight from the sweet and slightly bitter taste. Suddenly she felt it again, his eyes. She turned and looked, but as she saw his eyes, she wasn't nervous, she wasn't embarrassed. She was ready. But she wanted to tease him, make the hunger in his eyes deepen; make him want her like a starving man wants a turkey dinner.