This oneās for Ian⦠the originator of the infamous āice cream lickā⦠Happy graduation, sweetieā¦
But first, a little background. Weāve been friends a long time, Ian and I. At present day, weāve been exchanging IMs, emails, photos, phone calls, and fantasies for about nine years, give or take. Yet weāve never met one another, even when we were both single and lived close enough to do so. I blame him.
I am a road-trip kinda girl. Those who know me and know me well know that I am a gypsy at heart, and that when the restlessness takes its grip on my soul, thereās really nothing better than a road trip to cure what ails me. Sometimes these things can be planned, sometimes not so much.
A few years ago, I was planning a road trip from central Ohio, the place I currently call home, to the piney woods of east Texas where I grew up. While Mississippi is not usually on my route, I tend to take two or three weeks at a time so that I can take detours as desired, and for a chance to meet my long-time friend Ian, Mississippi was definitely a detour I was willing to take.
So we made plans. I would call when I hit Memphis and started heading south. My intentions were completely honorable. My husband was traveling with me (not Harold, but husband #2 who is much more open-minded) and totally willing to either camp out at the hotel for a bit while Ian and I enjoyed getting to know each other face to face over a meal or join us, along with Ianās fiancĆ©, if that would be more comfortable for him.
I called⦠and called⦠and called. Nothing. I found a hotel nearby to stay in over night and called again. Iād been stood up. Now, itās worth noting that Ian was somewhat newly engaged, and that his fiancĆ©/girl-friend of several years did not have (still doesnāt, for that matter) any notion of my existence. Personally, Iām all in favor of honesty when it comes to these things, but thatās just me, and in all fairness it took many, many years for me to come to that point. Ian is also a good Baptist boy, who has finally admitted to feeling a little conflicted about his secret and oh-so-naughty fantasies about me versus how his wife would react should he ever be caught meeting someone from the internet (gasp!), even for a totally innocent and public lunch.
Fast-forward a couple of years to present-day. Ian is actually the person who introduced me to literoticaās website. Like me (and you, Iām sure), he understands that the real key to sexual attraction is in the imagination. And oh, what imaginations we both have⦠So when I published my most recent story, even though we hadnāt really talked much since the non-meeting (other than for me to give him some good-natured harassment), I forwarded the link to him, knowing heād love it. And he did. So weāre chatting again, during the week, while heās at grad school, away from his family. I find his imagination as provocative as ever⦠and still an explosive spark to my own.
I donāt know about you, but for a fantasy to be truly enjoyable for me, it has to be real. By that, I mean that is has to be feasible⦠something that COULD happen as imagined, regardless of whether or not it ever would. I probably couldnāt get much satisfaction out of a fantasy about being abducted and used by aliens for sexual experiments (although Harold was convinced he was repeatedly abducted⦠but thatās another story) or making love with a werewolf or other mythological creature, or even something as commonly fantasized about as being approached by a complete stranger for a fuck. Could I write a story about one of those topics? Sure. Would I get turned on by it? Probably. But I wouldnāt obsess about it until it became a much loved and explored fantasy because my brain gets too wrapped up in the āwhyā and the āhowā of it all.
So in one of my recent conversations with Ian, I mention to him how desperately I am fighting the urge for a road trip, and he mentions to me how much he regrets his decision to chicken out (Ha, ha, ha⦠One last dig!) last time we had the opportunity to meet, and how if I ever took a road trip his direction again, he would definitely meet me. He also mentions how he would be tempted to eat more than lunch together. The wheels started turningā¦
Knowing what I know now about Ianās sensual nature as well as his convictions about what kind of behaviors are or are not acceptable in his marriage, my mind instantly starts searching for a loop hole⦠a way to make it possible for us to play together live-and-in-person without him having to break his vows⦠and I find one.
Itās simple⦠we donāt touch each other. As long as he can still truthfully say, āI have never touched another woman since the day we were married,ā we are free to do whatever comes to mind, right?
And thus, my fantasy of Ianā¦
We make plans⦠and meet. Whether I drive or fly from Ohio to Louisiana where he lives while heās at school is immaterial. The fact is that we are together, alone, in a town where no one knows our names or our faces. There is nothing guiding our actions save our own consciences⦠well, his conscience really, as my mores are based on different values.
The first meeting is⦠comfortable. As I said, weāve been friends a long time, and shared as many real-life trials as fantasies over the years. We greet one another with easy hugs and spend hours enjoying the novelty of watching one anotherās expressions change in ways weād never imagined during those long chats. It makes my heart smile to see the way his eyes crinkle when he laughs, and I do my best to keep him smiling and laughing throughout the evening.
We flirt. I also come to recognize the look in his eye when heās debating whether or not to filter something heās thinking of saying⦠something he would normally say to me in chat or on the phone, but something that might not be acceptable in āregularā conversation. I want no filters. Our time is too short already. I say as much, and our flirting becomes more and more outrageous, and ultimately turns into teasing.
I. Love. To tease. And I love to be teased equally as much. Ian knows this, and intent on teasing me, he leans toward me with a genuine smile and says, āMera, this has really been a lot of fun. I canāt tell you how happy I am that weāve finally met. But you know⦠as much fun as itās been to sit here talking to you, it doesnāt change the fact that I still want to make you cum over and over for me, until Iāve watched you make every sound Iāve ever heard come from your lips.ā
An involuntary gasp and a shiver run the length of my body. As though it werenāt stimulating enough to be sitting next to him, smelling his subtle scent and watching his lips form around the words of his lovely southern accent, my mind is now filled with images of him watching me have orgasm after orgasm. Inspiration strikes.
Without allowing myself to think on it too long I look him in the eye, suddenly serious, and respond āIāll let you watch.ā His eyes get bigger and he smiles a little, asking āWhat do you mean?ā āI mean⦠Iāll let you watch.ā Dead silence. āDo you look at naughty pictures online?ā Leary but curious, he admits he does sometimes. āAnd thatās okay because⦠youāre looking but not touching, right?ā I see the light turn on in his head as I repeat again, more deliberately, āIāll let you watch.ā
I can tell heās thinking about it⦠weighing the consequences in his head. I say, āIād love to watch you tooā and smile a devilish smile. He closes his eyes for a moment and groans. Itās obvious to me that heās now uncomfortably hard in his jeans and seriously considering the idea. Watching him think it through, I lean toward him and whisper how we could go back to my hotel, take all our clothes off for each other, and touch ourselves without doing anything heād have to be ashamed about later. I promise not to lay a hand on himā¦
He opens his eyes and tells me, āI donāt think I could resist touching you, Mera.ā I give him my straight-faced ācome onā look and say, āIan, please. I know you well enough by now to know that youāre a really good guy. If you donāt want to touch me, youāre not going to touch me. Itās as simple as that.ā
He laughs and jokes that I may have to tie him up across the room to keep him from touching me. I laughingly tell him, āThat can be arranged, too.ā