(This is a story for the female readers on this beautiful site.)
It is a cloudy day, early in the afternoon after a stressful day at work and you scheduled a 'full body massage special' at a small massage parlour across town.
You are barely through the door, when your name is already called by the smiling assistant on the front desk as you are guided to a small bright white room with incense already burning. It is warm, just the right temperature.
As the woman, who guided you in takes a leave to let you undress and lie down, you hear a voice coming from the room next door. A male voice.
"I'll be right with you, Miss. I suggest you lie down on the couch and start to relax. I must assume it was a tough day, considering you chose the 'full body special'."
Just as you positioned yourself comfortably on the couch face down, you can hear the door to the next room opening. You don't mind looking up as he enters and prepares a few little bottles between him and you.
"I will begin your massage now, Miss. Please relax and jst enjoy."
His voice is smoothing, calm, full of confidence.
You hear a click as he opens a bottle of massage oil.
The next thing you feel is a drop of liquid running down your back, slowly and cool. The drop runs from your shoulders down your spine right to your lumbar vertebra before you feel the first touch of warm, strong fingertips.
They are slowly spreading the massage oil over your back. It is smooth, almost like velvet running along your skin.
"you feel very tense, Miss. let me help you with that."
The fingertips spread out and you can feel the palms of his hands slowly pressing your muscles in circles to loosen the pressure. Slow gentle but firm circles. from the spine slowly going outwards.
For the shoulders the fingertips just pinpoint the tense muscles and spread out, seemingly making any stress, any sorrow disappear with the stiffness.
You feel the hands sliding down flat down your back sprading a new layer of warming oil all over.
The room is silent but it is no awkward or uncomfortable silence. It is total relaxation.
As his hands rest for just a moment on your lower back you can swear you still feel his touch and warmth in his shoulders though for a fraction of a second you can feel the warmth of the hands crawl deep under your skin with the oil.
On your lower back you can feel how he sets up the sides of his palms and flattening them as he moves them slowly to the sides taking every negative bit of thought with them.