It's 3AM in the morning of the third day we've been together. I am on the second floor deck of the beach house, wrapped in the soft flannel bedspread I dragged off the bed as I awakened a half hour ago, comfortably nestled down in the lone chaise lounge, listening to the surf and the wind. The bedspread's the only thing from the bed other than the sheet in which I left you wrapped that appears to still be mercifully dry, as one of us either had the good sense to move it before it became another wet casualty of our lovemaking, or the lucky outstretching of a limb pushed it onto the floor and out of harm's way sometime during the past two days. I really don't remember. The amount of sweat and juices that we've left on the playground the bedroom had become is significant; we promised ourselves earlier today that we would call the maid service in the morning to clean up the carnage.
We had talked about meeting for months. It never happened because life did, in its place. What did John Lennon say? Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans? Or something like that. But somehow the opportunity presented itself just a few days ago, and when it did, we almost dangerously dropped what we were doing, making quick and sketchy plans to deal with those around us, and made our way to this lovely place that we both knew about separately, but were now making our own.
You never know how that first interaction will be, but after starting out almost tentatively, we quickly escalated. Escalated to what? I'm still trying to understand that. All I know is that we've not been out of physical contact in private except, as in ice dancing, to change positions, and only briefly in public when it was necessary to find food so the beach house's owner - a good friend - wouldn't find skeletons coupled together in the bedroom at some future date. Even then, there was an almost constant touch of a hand to a hand or to a shoulder or a neck; the latter bringing a shiver and a shrug meant to engulf the finger or hand that was placed there, not in the least to show indifference.
I have, in the short time we've been together, with your help and direction, learned your body well enough to know when and where to touch, and how. It was a long way from our email and telephone conversations where we talked endlessly about what excites you to where we are now. And I thought I knew you before we met. I could spend the next hundred years learning the nuances of the effect of touch on you - pushing you to that edge of excitement but not release that we had discovered only earlier today. And I would spend that time gladly.