Chains
"Jeff, how did we get here?" you ask, as you lay on my bed, hands still cuffed, the spreader bar still between your ankles, satisfaction in your voice, languor in your pose; your eyes half shut, and your skin shiny with sweat and cum, yours and mine. Here is my answer.
"You and I, Emma, we go back a long complicated way, dancing into each other's orbit, being pulled away by another's gravity, but, sooner or later, we find ourselves on the same dance floor, alone and lonely, and we begin to orbit each other once again. Something is different about this time, however. Perhaps it is the years, maybe even maturity, but at the very least, it is self knowledge, or so I think to myself. We know ourselves, and we know each other, you and I.
We both went to Jess' place for a party on October 24th. Not quite Halloween, no longer summer though it was still quite warm; something in-between. We both arrived with someone else, but to say you came with him or me with her, well, it would be an overstatement. I think you saw me first, but as you drifted toward me, I sensed you. There is no other word for it – I turned, expecting to see you, and there you were.
I wasn't wearing anything special – black jeans, chocolate silk tee and a light linen jacket; flip flops for shoes. You, on the other, were dressed as if you were plugged into my libido; pale beige, cap sleeve top, buttons all the way down, like a man's shirt, two buttons undone, with a tight black skirt that fell just below mid thigh. No hose and blood red fuck-me-pumps. Your bra was barely visible through the top; I could see the lace at the top of the cup. Just that much, no more, but it pulled at something low inside me, some unconscious some memory of times past.
We spoke as if we were long time friends, catching up with each other. That isn't what I felt. Inside, I raged at you, at how you could just come back into my life, like some fucking comet that comes by every few year and sheds a few falling stars. I wanted to slap you, or bury you with kisses, I couldn't tell which.
I don't know what you thought. Your conscious mind has never been available to me. The mind that underlies conscious thought, oh fuck yeah, I knew that woman. Not, however, this cool chick with her bright and knowing eyes and the kiss of wine on her lips and tongue. I will never know her, not entirely."
"Do you still think that, Jeff?"
"Yes, kitten, I still do." I continued the story.
"Friends separated us, your girlfriends wanting to talk about guys, my guy friends want to talk about football.
I couldn't give a flying fuck about football under normal conditions, and with you there, dressed like... like sex in fucking heels, no, the conditions were not normal, but mostly guys don't need anything more than a few grunts and damn rights, and really, I just watched you.
Watched you watching me. The girls were going on and on about who fucking knows what, but you watched me, circling your wine glass with your lips and tongue. Fuck you, I thought, you're playing me for a chump. Still, I wondered. Your gaze, more predator than player, unsettled me, made me question what I knew, what had happened back then. Made me think my memory couldn't be right.
After a only a few minutes I couldn't take it anymore. I pulled you away from the girls, almost spilling your wine in the process. The girls gave me that look, but they know we go way back, and they cut me some slack.
'What the fuck are you doing here, Emma?'
'It's a party, Jeff. I came to Jess' fucking party, pardon my French.'
'Yeah, I get that, the same for me, but why are you... you know, looking at me?'
'You're a handsome older man, Jeff. I like handsome men.' Oh how I knew that. Handsome motherfucking cocksuckers - men were what had always come between us.
'Well, stop it. You're giving me the willies.'
'Oh, there's a willy involved, that's for sure,' and you leered at me over your glass, all tongue and shiny lips.
An almost physical jolt passed through me, leaving a hot trail of desire in its wake. 'Jesus, Emma, don't do that to me if you don't plan to put your mouth where your words are!'You leered at me again.'Shit, you know what I mean, put out or shut up, Emma.' Crap. 'I mean, don't string me along, okay? You owe me that much.'
'Who's stringing you along, Jeff? The wine is good, and the glass, it feels good, but, I don't know, I think you might just be tastier and I know you'd feel way better. A girl gets tired of... of glass, don't you think?'
Suddenly, it wasn't a game anymore, not that it had ever been one, not between us. I took the wine out of your hand, put it on a nearby table, and pulled you, roughly, up the stairs and into Jess' guest room, locking the door behind us.
I pushed you, hard, then again, then a third time, forcing you backwards to the far wall. Your face lost its playful predator look as you worried about what I might do, what I wanted to do to you.
'No fears, Emma, I won't leave any marks, at least none anyone else but us will see.' I said. I don't think this comforted you at all, but you didn't move away, you just waited. Still, alert, your breathing a little accelerated, your face flushed. I flung my jacket on the bed, and the tee quickly followed it. The flip flops were abandoned, but I left the jeans on. I could tell in your eyes that you still like my flesh, that you wanted me naked, but not yet, kitten, not yet.
I stalked you, crossing the last two steps between us, and, taking your arm, turned you around so your back was to me. I kissed the back of your neck, ran my fingers over your lips, teasing your tongue, then slid my hands down your shoulders, down your arms, to your hands, which I gently interlocked, each hand of mine with each hand of yours, and then placed our hands on your hips and pulled you tight against me. Your hair was in my face, and the smell of your sweet scent made me weak in the knees - but not weak everywhere, no, not at all. My erection, which had started downstairs, was like a thick pulsing rod in my pants, and you could feel it against your buttocks, the small of your back, and you arched that beautiful back, pushing back against me, seeking contact.
I let go of your hands and raised mine slowly along the front of your shirt, brushing over your breasts, just barely feeling your hard nipples. My lips were on your neck, your ears, your cheek. I unbuttoned the top button on your shirt, and slowly moved to the next button, and the rise of your breasts was there to see, the lush skin, the lacy bra. My breath caught, so did yours, as I ran my fingers along the top of the cups, lightly stroking your skin.
My hands slipped lower, cupping your breasts, lifting them slightly. You looked down, seeing my hands, there, and the flames of desire, lit, as it was for me, well before we came upstairs, flared up, starting that burn low, low down in your core.
A finger slipped under the lace, and traced there an aureole, a nipple, engorged with blood, with lust. You started, pushed upright, almost to your toes, and leaned back into me, that I might touch more, take more, but I didn't. I returned to the buttons, slowly undoing the remaining ones and untucking the shirt tails from your skirt, leaving the sensitive skin of your belly open to every breath of air, to my hands as they smoothed along the skin, running along the top of the skirt, then up to the bottom of the bra cups.
I turned you around and kissed you, hungrily, almost biting your lips, your tongue, tasting you, absorbing all of your essence into mine. I caressed the hollow of your neck with my lips, and you quaked, wanting more, fearing more.