I’m standing at the sink, rinsing a few dishes when I feel you hands on my hips, then you lips on my neck as pull me against you. I laugh softly and turn my head to give you a kiss. You have just come in from work and I didn’t realize the time, I tell you supper will be ready as soon as you’re finished with your shower. Before you go I turn in your arms and let my mouth tell you how much I really missed you today. I press my body into yours and let my arms go around you neck, my tongue sliding against yours. I break the kiss and tell you to hurry…. your clothes are already laid out. On your way to the bathroom you take the time to start a fire in the living room and the master bedroom.
When you step from the shower you find your favorite t-shirt and shorts laid out and the smell of homemade lasagna and garlic bread coming from the kitchen. You hurriedly dress and head towards the kitchen. We sit down and enjoy our meal, salad, garlic bread, lasagna, and homemade cheesecake. Half –way through dessert I ask you about your day and you begin to tell me about an incident, as you start talking I let my foot slide up your leg…I hear you mention something about a guy telling a joke as my foot slides under the leg of your shorts…You stop mid-sentence and smile at me, I smile back, licking the last bits of cheesecake from my bottom lip. I ask you if you would like to go to the living room and watch the video I rented. Still grinning you agree…I get up, take you hand and lead you to the living room, the fire you started earlier has the room nice and warm…I pull you down with me to the couch and grab the remote to the TV/VCR. I move toward the end of the couch and tell you to lay down, you lay your head in my lap and I begin to play with you hair as we watch the movie. The entire movie my hands run up and down your arms, your shoulders, massaging your neck. I watch as your body relaxed from my hands and the warmth of the fire. Your almost asleep when the credits begin to roll over the screen. I sit still and just look at your peaceful face as you sleep. I lean down and kiss your cheek, the wetness of my lips making your eyes flutter open. I smile and ask you if you would like to go to bed? With a speed I didn’t think capable of a sleeping man you get up and pull me off the couch, you flick off the TV and the kitchen lights as we head toward the bedroom. I’m pleasantly surprised to see a fire already roaring in our bedroom.