Adam gave the bleak sky an angry look as he hurried to repack the picnic basket. What right did nature have to interfere with his already too-short afternoon with his wife? With his work, he and Leah saw each other little enough already.
Leah noticed her husband's frustration, and reached across the blanket to caress his hair as the first raindrops started to fall. "Honey, you know I love you, and I cherish our time together even when the weather doesn't cooperate. Come on, let the world rest for a while, Atlas, and come keep me company."
A wry smile escaped Adam's sour mood. Leah was always good at cheering him up. "Fine, then. What do you suggest, my Pollyanna of a wife?"
"First we'd better find some shelter, and quick!"
They each grabbed a handle of the picnic basket, and ran off through the field in the direction of taller vegetation which looked like it might protect at least their shins from the coming rain. When they reached the tall grass, Leah reached once more into the picnic basket, removing the blanket which they had so recently repacked. "We'd better stay low, in case there's lightning," she explained as she unfolded it on the damp ground.
When Leah was finished laying out the blanket, the rain began in earnest. She lay down on the blanket, pulling Adam down next to her. "Oh, Adam, it's so good to be close to you again. It's been days since we've even been in the same room together. Tell me you're as happy as I am." Finally acknowledging his helplessness against the forces of nature, Adam sighed, and turned to his wife.
Leah's hair was beginning to stick to her neck as it collected the falling rain. As Adam looked at her, he realized how true it was that they'd been too separate for too long. She was wonderful, and she was in love with him. How could he have ignored her? "Sweetheart, you know I love you. I'm the luckiest man in the world to have you here with me." With that, he pulled her close, his arm around her waist as he kissed her. The familiar taste of her lips against his, mixed with the cold wetness of the increasing rain on their faces made him catch his breath quickly in surprise. He had missed her so much!
Leah broke their kiss slowly, pulling away so that she could begin to undress. Already, she was so excited that she was nearly unable to unfasten the buttons of her cotton shirt, let alone her jeans. Adam, realizing what she was trying to do, offered his assistance, and soon she was clad only in her underwear. Her white bra and panties, transparent in the rain, stuck to her body, raising goosebumps with their damp coldness and displaying her erect nipples tantalizingly. Adam, unable to resist their teasing, ran his large hands from his wife's wrists, all the way up her arms, and down her chest, following the swell of her soft flesh, until his splayed fingers completely covered her breasts. He began to squeeze, softly at first, and then more insistently, until Leah couldn't repress a moan of excitement. She frantically reached for his face, and brought his lips to hers for another kiss which they would not break until they had managed to undress Adam, awkward though it was.