The man of my dreams is faceless.
He is strong and confident. His arms and back, slightly toned with muscle.
He moves with the easy grace of a known predator.
I never see his face, only his eyes.
In them I see his arousal, his determination, and the knowledge that on some primitive level,
I want him
.
He approaches me from behind, while I stand, critically examining my face in the mirror.
In the few minutes before he comes to me, I think that the picture I see is plain, unattractive. What I see is someone who nearsighted, her half-Asian features that are more strange than exotic, her dark, fine hair, more dull than alluring. Without the polish of make-up, she's not worth a glance on the street.
Not worth so much as a mercy fuck.
He moves towards me slowly, telling me with his eyes that he sees past the clothes. Sees past the glasses. Sees the past the gloom.
With no more than a look, he tells me that he wants me,
craves
me, and that what
he
sees in the mirror is far from what I see.
What he sees a
woman
; a flesh and blood being, who
craves
the primitive contact he can give her.
He never speaks, never makes a sound, so sure of himself that he lets his eyes and body do the talking.
When he reaches me at last, he stands, just behind me, looking at me in the mirror. He waits before he makes his move, watching my breasts rise and fall with every breath.
I'm caught in his eyes. Caught in that strange feeling between arousal and agitation.
I'm still not sure it's happening to me. Yet on some deeper level, I
know