"Ten Years Gone" was playing over and over again in my mind. The song was not an exact fit to my life, but it's mysterious knack for being on the radio following any encounter with Chris gave it a special new meaning for me. I dug out my old "Physical Grafitti" album and started to play it whenever I thought of Chris, which was often.
Since our impromptu phone sex session, conversations between Chris and me had tamed down considerably. We looked forward to one another's calls and emails, making sure to be home for them. We talked for hours about everything under the sun. Everything other than where this was going.
It was plain that this thing had gone beyond simple lust and a single encounter in a car. It was no secret that there was a connection there that could not be easily ignored. There was more, however, that could not be ignored, and it was not as pretty.
Chris had a life in California. He was bartending at one of the trendiest Long Beach nightspots and taking classes at Cal State Fullerton during the day. His entire family lived in California, as did all his friends.
I had only parents in California. In fact, we had moved there when I was starting high school, and I moved back home to Louisiana after graduation when LSU accepted me. I had a cush teaching job here, and I felt at peace among the moss hung trees and bayous, more than I ever had in the hustle and bustle of California.
While it had not come up, I sensed that it would one day, and I questioned the willingness on either of our parts to move closer to one another. My affection for Chris was growing, and I was sure that this feeling was mutual, but the spectre of that make or break decision had begun to plague me.
We spoke until late in the night on one particular Saturday, and the closest we had come to addressing distance and attachment was his plan to visit me in about a month's time. Something in his voice as he told me he could not wait to see me again seemed almost pained. Though I could not be sure where that tone came from, and I did not ask, for some things are best discussed in person, by the time we hung up, I felt restless and worried.
I wanted to just go to bed to keep from thinking, but sleep proved elusive, so I found myself at the drug store in my flannel pajamas, buying a box of Sominex. Though I generally avoid such things, it seemed the only way to get any rest on this night.
Luckily the pills worked, but the dream that followed during that deep sleep did little for my worried desires once I woke up.
In the dream, I was in bed, on my stomach and naked. The Led Zeppelin song was playing somewhere from the other room, just loud enough to be audible. Only the full moon streaming through the window served to illuminate, and I dreamt that I was simply thinking of Chris.
It was then that I felt the fingers slide along my wet folds, and up between my cheeks, teasing around my little opening. Wet, circling, and gently pressing against it, a single finger wormed its way into my ass, beginning a slow fuck that had my hips rolling up against each thrust. "Chris... you're here," I murmured through a smile and a sucking in of my breath.
"Of course I am," he breathed, his voice sweet and his tone carrying a smile I could not see. He pushed another finger into my asshole, and I moaned, the moan interrupted by a gasp as he began, with the other hand, to gently rub along the length of my pussy, stopping at my engorged clit. He rubbed it in time with the slowly quickening strokes that moved in and out of my ass. "I want you so badly, it hurts..." his voice trailed off as he continued his quiet pleasuring.