We finished rehearsal early, only because half the cast is fighting some sort of stomach flu. Fuck, when do we open? We'll be ready, somehow we're always ready. I hang back with you shutting down the rehearsal space, switching on the ghost light center stage.
As I cross downstage, you grab my hand and pull me back to you. Looking at me. Really looking, as if you'd never seen me before.
"You're really good."
"Stop. I'm far from ready, that beat at the top act two feels forced, but I'll get there."
"You're good. I like watching you play and discover, and take risks. It's sexy."
In my best Blanche DuBois, "I do declare."
You pull me into you, wrapping your arms around the small of my back, a hand on my ass, squeezing gently as you press a very slow, sweet kiss to my lips. I reciprocate, my hands traveling to your shoulders. Arms wrapping around your neck, "it's a bit cliche isn't it, sleeping with the director?"
"Fuck em." I chuckle at your candor. "Let's get out of here, I'm starving."
"Same," come to think of it - we made dinner, but got distracted fucking in the kitchen before rehearsal, we didn't actually eat.
We make our way through the back of the theater, checking doors and lights, reaching the Green Room. Now, it's I who grab you.
Pressing my body and lips against yours.
"It's a bit cliche, isn't it...to fuck in the Green Room?" I smile, "Mhm"
You lift me slightly and sit me on the table behind us, careful not crush the box of donuts someone brought in. Your lips and hands travel down the front of my body. Slipping off the staps of my sundress. Nibbling and licking my collarbone, shoulders, and chest. I moan and run my hands over your body, my legs instinctively wrapping around you. I pull your shirt up and off, you remove my bra, so we are equally bare-chested. You take me in again with your eyes, kiss my neck, and pull me close. We are pressed skin-to-skin. My heart feels like it's going to burst from my chest.
You whisper a few lines from the play in my ear. It's the scene where he bears his soul and ultimate fear of losing her. "Fucking actors," I teasingly whisper back. You nibble my earlobe and step back. Taking my hand to lead me to the couch...how many people have fucked on this couch, I wonder? Such a cliche.