After all these years, it had come down to this. While we both knew there was a bet on the line, there were still too many feelings to ignore, and no way this was going to be just some fuck to win a bet.
You went to the kitchen to get me some water, and I looked around your living room. You came in and put on the radio, pulled me close to you, and started singing into my ear, the song you have sang over and over the twenty years we have known each other. You move your hands slowly down my sides, deliberately lingering at the cleft of my waist, the patch of skin left bare between where my shirt stopped and my low-slung pants began. Your left hand moves beneath my shirt, caressing my lower back as your right hand moves up to the back of my neck. Taking a handful of my hair in my hands, you gently tug. I reflexively move backward, looking at you; your questioning eyes. Do I really want to do this?
I look at you, in your brownish gold eyes, and see my whole life inside them.
I see you taking my around-the-world crown away from me, beating me in a flashcard game in the first grade at stupid 6+9. I see you looking at me with pity in your eyes when I broke my chin open on the playground in fourth grade, blood oozing from my hands raised to my chin while everyone else went on playing. I see us falling on our asses iceskating in sixth grade. I see our bouts with alcohol, social stigmas, censorship, money, families. I see myself lying in your arms after I wrecked my car trying to drive to your house when I was sixteen. I see you pulling me into your high school dark room for a quick kiss. I see you leading me through the crowds at our college festival.
I see all these things, and the bet is forgotten.
"Lukas," I tell you, "make love to me." Your hand clasps the back of my neck and pulls me to you. Your kiss is fire engulfing my whole life. I get goose bumps as your hands once more move slowly down my sides, your thumbs catching beneath the hems of my shirt, sliding it slowly up and over my head. Every inch of skin I own is awake and sensitive to this wave of cool air upon it. You are not one to rush anything. (after all, we have waiting twenty years for this, no?) You run your hands down my goose-flesh covered arms, then up, across the tops of my still-contained breasts, across my neck and under my hair, chills still filling every nerve in my body.
Kissing me and caressing my back, you deftly unhook my bra, causing me to feel a rush of air come up from beneath the underwire cups. I drop my hands to my sides, allowing the material to fall to the floor with one small nudge at my shoulders.
You pull me back and look at me. My face, my bare top, my snug, faded jeans. I can feel the warm rush to the intersection of my legs as your gaze turns me on.
"Come," you tell me and take my hands in yours.
The simple command sent shivers through my spine and almost proved to have a double-meaning, as I followed you to the bedroom.