The waiter brings us our dessert: crème brulee to share.
You crack the fire crisp surface with your spoon, digging it in deep, and you slide the first taste of the dessert between your lips.
You slip it in slowly, taking your time.
Your eye catches mine. You give me a coy smile and a look. The look beckons me to take the next turn.
I dip my spoon in, withdraw it. I see you purse your lips, anticipating my response.
I hesitate. You circle and wet your lips with the tip of your tongue.
Smiling in turn, I change direction: I bring the spoon to your lips. You part open your mouth, tongue reaching out.
I hold the spoon, laden full, before you.
You grab my wrist, keeping the spoon still. Your lips close slowly around the tip of the spoon, taking in just a little bit of the dessert.
You give me another look. I keep the spoon stiff before your mouth.
You take my wrist in a firm grasp and bend your mouth to the spoon.
Your tongue snakes out. Like a kitten lapping milk, you lick into the dollop of crème brulee, and then swallow it all.
You smile again.
Foregoing the spoon, and forgetting manners, I dip my finger into the crème brulee and present it to your lips, and insert it gently between them, with a slight little back and forth thrust.
You take firmer hold of my wrist, and swirl your tongue all around my finger, and up and down, then swallow it to its base. Slowly you withdraw it to its tip, sucking firmly around my finger, then you plunge your lips back down around it.
Impatient, I motion with my eyes for us to leave. You don't move. You pick the spoon back up, and you return to eating the crème brulee, taking your time, purring over its taste, never breaking eye contact with me, savoring each spoonful.