I woke up with the dawn just barely brightening the bay, the sun casting a long shadow of the bungalow across the slowly undulating surface of the ocean. I shifted slightly and realized I was alone in the bed, but not for long. I saw movement in the growing morning light and watched Liz step to the side of the bed, drop the robe she had on and slip under the covers with me. She snuggled up against me, pressing her nude body to mine and moving me so she could lay her head on my chest and wrap my arm around her shoulders.
"What were you doing?" I asked sleepily, having not gotten all that much sleep over night due to our nocturnal activities.
"Watching you sleep," she whispered.
"Why?"
"Because you were so peaceful. It's the first time I've seen you sleep like that. Usually you're very restless all night."
"You've been watching me sleep?"
She chuckled softly in the incredibly sexy little laugh of hers. "Hard to sleep through you rolling around and thrashing. You talk in your sleep too; did you know that?"
"I didn't used to."
"You do now. Well, last night you didn't." I rolled toward her enough to face her and wrap both arms around her. I pulled her to me and I kissed her softly, which she returned with equally gentle, loving passion. "What was that for?" she whispered as I broke the long gentle kiss.
"Just because."
"Last night?"
"Yeah."
"It was good sex, but why was last night different? We've had sex lots of nights now."
"Because last night we didn't have sex."
"Yes we did."
"No, we didn't. Last night was the first time you and I made love. There was passion, there was gentleness, there was caring and love. Last night was much different than anything we'd done so far. It felt good."
"It did, didn't it?" she whispered with a smile. "I kinda felt like maybe there was some hope for me, for us. Just when I was starting to think about maybe I wasn't something you'd throw away, I went and did something stupid with Eddie. I thought maybe I'd crossed that line with you again. But you didn't shy away. You showed me that it bothered you, but you didn't shy away. You made me feel like there was some hope. I've never let myself be hopeful, well, not in a lot of years. I gave it up a long time ago. But yesterday, I could feel it stir in me. Is there? Hope for us I mean?"
"I'll admit. I was pretty put off by what you did with Eddie. I told you I wouldn't judge you until after this was all over, but for a while last night, I thought you were going to end up in the dumpster with Donna. But then, after the way you felt to me last night? I think there is, as long as we can avoid more Eddie's. I do have a question though. At the dance, you took off all your clothes. Why?"
"You didn't like it?"
"We're not talking about what I liked," I whispered. "I'm asking why you did it."
She thought for long seconds. "I took my top off to be playful. I wanted you to be able to see my tits. As I was dancing a saw a lot of guys enjoying the view. It made me all tingly inside, so I stopped fixing my dress, just to see what it felt like if it fell down accidently."
"And?"
"God it turned me on so much. I felt like everyone could see my pussy leaking down my legs as I danced up there. But the funny thing was, I wasn't really looking at them. I was looking at you. I wanted to turn you on and I wanted to walk over and have you take me, right there. Just bend me over one of the benches and take me right in front of everyone."
"Was it me? Or just because I was a guy?" I asked quietly.
"To be honest, it was just you I wanted in me. It was your cock I wanted to feel, your cum I wanted pumping into me. It turned me on to dance for those other guys, but it was you I wanted to touch me." I nodded quietly and kissed her nose. "Is it okay? That it turned me on dancing for them?"
"I told you. You do what feels good for you and we'll worry about what I think later."
"It is later, at least for me. Last night, I wanted you to, well, I wanted it to be alright with you. I wanted you to be as excited for me as being naked up there made me excited for you. I know now how much me having sex with other guys bothers you."
"As far as I'm concerned, we don't need to have sex with other people."