Halloween.
Text (her): You home?
Yay!
Calm down.
Text (me): Yep.
Text (her): Stay inside.
Ooh. Ominous.
Text (me): k
Sounds like a surprise is coming for me- let me rephrase that.
Sounds like a surprise, for me, is coming.
... Only slightly less foreboding. Anyway....
I was sitting on the sofa when I heard the gravel crunch, and as much as I wanted to open the door to her, I knew that not doing that was implied, so I just remained seated, consciously stopping my leg from bouncing.
Car door shut.
Text (her): Close your eyes.
Oh, my. New outfit?
... No outfit?
Shut up.
Text (me): Ready.
I closed my eyes and set my phone aside. Hands over eyes for good measure.
After a few seconds, the front door opened.
Her footsteps on the hardwood floor sounded slightly different. New boots?
Door closed.
A couple more steps.
"Okay. Open."
I obeyed.
Never, in the entirety of my life, up to that point, had I ever put my hands to my open mouth in surprise.
"Oh, my god," I said through my fingers as I stood in awe.
I absolutely had to get a closer look at this... miracle.
I circled around her, as she casually strolled over to the arm of the sofa, for a proper leaning pose, and then I grabbed my phone to pull up the reference image.
Poking, prodding, and fondling, I inspected her further, comparing details.
A two-tier skirt. Purple on the top, shorter layer and gradient to a pinkish purple at the bottom, which was slightly tattered.
The belt with the double chain.
The purple, off-the shoulder, sleeved vest with only the one button at the top. And nothing underneath.
Arm sheath, wristbands, and infection lines drawn on one arm, copied with impressive accuracy.
I pinched some of her hair and slid my fingers down, leaving purple smudges.
"Temporary dye," she informed.
Appreciated. She knew I loved her natural self.
Short pigtails held by spiked hair ties.
Amazingly accurate and realistic looking horns.
Five-tooth necklace.
Pointy ears.
Purple contacts.
Purple stockings.
The purple-stained, calf-high boots were not exact match, but that was understandable.
She even had a realistic spell book, and a real-life accurate-equivalent dagger that was sharp.
"This is amazing," I finally said. "How... were you able to do this?"
She had achieved something that I almost doubted could be done at all.
An almost perfectly accurate cosplay that did not look like an obvious cosplay.
Of one of my favorite characters.
I took some pictures.
"Lots of internet searching, and have I mentioned that I'm half-way decent at crafting and sewing?"
"Half-way my ass. So much effort."
"I've wanted to make an amazing cosplay outfit for years, but there was never one that I thought was worth the effort, especially since I didn't have any real reason to wear it. Then I found the reason and the one I wanted to do."
"I feel like I should be wearing an oversized hooded coat, right now."
She lightly chuckled.
"Nope. I've done exactly what I wanted. ... Now it's your turn," she added, quietly and slyly, turning her face away and flipping the dagger around.
Hell, yeah.
My feet on either side of hers, I moved in to slide my hands around her waist and kiss her.
"Oy," she said, abruptly, impersonating the character's voice as she pushed me away with the book. "My trust is not at 200%."
I find that hard to believe.
But, okay. This seemed fun.
"Unfortunately, all base operations are assigned, and there are no missions available. In fact, I sent your sister on a mission."
Her eyebrow raised, and she turned her face toward me slightly.
I eased a little closer.
"She'll be gone for days."
She faced me.
"Would you like something sweet?"
"Whatcha got?"
I gave her quick, light kiss on cheek.
She froze a moment, with widened eyes, dropped the book and knife, then and lept up at me.
"Sugar rush," she shouted, wrapping her arms and legs around me and repeatedly kissing all over my face as I stumbled backward into the wall laughing.
Pretty sure this would not have been true to character.
I steadied myself, held her thighs, even though she was still securely affixed, and I somehow managed to catch up with her lips.
Her onslaught slowed until it was just one long kiss, and my hands had moved to her ass.
I was wrong.
They weren't stockings.
They were leggings.
I broke the kiss to ask, "Were these leggings expensive or hard to find?"
"No. Why," she asked with a devilish smile.
"I'm gonna need that knife."
Looked me deeply in the eyes for a moment, and then spoke in a soft voice.
"Trust is at 200%."
I can't really say that I was expecting anything, but I was definitely not expecting her to let go and slowly start leaning backwards until she was hanging upside down reaching a hand out for the knife on the floor.
Her loose, cloth vest flipped, uncovering her breasts, which was definitely not a distraction that I needed at the moment.
We were obviously not close enough to the knife, so I walked her over until she could grab it.
She carefully clutched the blade between her teeth, to free her hand, and then began her graceful ascent, while pulling the vest back into position at the same speed.
Staring me in the eyes, she took the knife from her mouth and held it up in front of me in the one hand, while the other hung loose at her side.
She was remaining upright entirely by her own strength.
"Did you take gymnastics as a kid," I asked, cracking a little smile.
"In fact, I did."
"Nice," I said, turning toward the bedroom.
Along the way, she cut off the necklace and threw it aside. Neither of us actually liked jewelry.
Grabbing a handful of the comforter and sheet, I pulled them off the bed and tossed them onto the floor in front of the closet door.
I stood against the foot of the bed, and she lowered herself, but kept her legs around me, causing her to lay angled down. Her hands, and the held knife, rested on either side of her head. The vest spread open to reveal more of her stomach.
Since she was around my waist, she was too high up for me to press my bulge into her, to satisfy that great urge, so I decided to give my attention to that oh, so inviting abdomen.
I smoothed over the surface, grazing her belly button with my thumb, and then moved up her ribs, under the vest flaps, but only around the outer edges of her breasts.
Sometimes the mere suggestion of potential exposure is more satisfying that the exposure itself. The anticipation. The realm of potential. The hope.
Her eyes half closed in response, as I massaged, allowing cloth to move incrementally further, lightly grazing over her nipples.
The underside of her breasts came into view. More. The edge of her areola. The erect nipple. The rest of the areola.
And then I realized that I had yet to taste them. It was almost as if I had sampled her out of order.
I unbuttoned the single point of attachment, and deliberately opened the vest outward, putting her on full display.
It was a beautiful sight.
She looked at me with sultry eyes, in this seemingly vulnerable position, with the flaps of the vest offering an illusion of pinning her arms down.
But her legs tight around me, assured me that she wanted all of this. That she didn't want to be anywhere but there, ready for whatever I was about to do next.
I wrapped my hands around her ribcage. My thumbs at the fronts of her shoulder. My spread fingers covering as much of her back as I could.
And then I bent over and enveloped one of her erections.
The sudden inhalation that I heard above my head pleased me, as my mouth and tongue explored new textures, and new contrasts between soft and firm.
I moved to the next one to seek differences, and then a hand fell upon my head. A gently encouraging hand.
My teeth teased and tested, yielding magnificent answers.
When I'd learned what I could, I began a path up from between her breasts to her lips, and then blindly relieved her of the knife.
Upright, I set the knife aside, because the time for it had not yet come.
I grabbed her hips, cuing her to release, and after she did, I helped move her up the bed just enough that the edge was at the back of her knees.
Up her thighs to the waistband of her leggings, and pulled them down to the tops of her boots.
Just wanted the mental image.
I used the knife to cut the through the material, from crotch to waist, set the knife aside, and then pulled one half back up her leg, careful not to touch her skin.
Any of her skin.
Grabbing her by the claves of the boots, I widened her legs, but needing to pull her body down just a little bit to get the width that I wanted.
Staring her in the eye, I slowly reached my hand up the skirt, creeping closer to her center until I could sense the heat from it. Close enough that even she could feel my finger's presence without actual contact.
Her eyebrows did a wonderful involuntary dance.
I removed my hand to the side of her bare knee, and then started a trail up with my fingertips on her as lightly as I could manage.
At about mid-thigh, her leg shivered at an unintentional tickle, and she made a light gasp.
I changed course to the top of her thigh, beneath the skirt, in order to cross over the connection and explore that beloved expanse slowly side to side, edging closer and closer to her mound.
Closer and closer to its hidden divide.
Her breath shuddered with a light moan, and her hands twitched with restraint.
Her back arched slightly as I traced down the crevice, and her eyebrows danced again as I moved back up, but inside just enough to feel her on the sides of the very tip of my middle finger.
I crawled onto the bed enough to tease a nipple with my tongue, along with the tiny motions of my fingertip gradually working further in.