I wasn't expecting any presents this year. At least not in my home. On Christmas morning, I would travel to my parents' house several miles away to engage in holiday pseudo-cheer with them and my siblings, and the nieces and nephews who always reminded me that my own marriage had broken up before kids could come along.
I spent Christmas Eve in my usual place: in front of the computer in the adult dating site chat room, wearing flannel jammies, with a cup of eggnog, chatting with the few online friends who weren't already celebrating the holiday or weren't busy getting Santa's gifts ready for their little ones. "Stellar, what are you doing for Christmas Eve?" my friend Greg typed in the room.
"JingleBalls, not a damn thing," I typed back. "Sitting here with my eggnog and my cats, waiting for it to be late enough to go to bed." I couldn't help cringing when I typed Greg's handle. He had way too much Christmas spirit.
"Stellar, no gifts to open?" Greg typed.
"Jingle, not unless Santa really exists."
"Stellar, you might be surprised."
After a few minutes, Greg typed, "bbiab." I stayed in the chat room, reading the conversations and occasionally participating. Before I knew it, twenty minutes had passed and Greg hadn't come back. He must have had some Christmas stuff to do.
Half an hour later, my doorbell rang. Who the heck would be at my door at nine on Christmas Eve night? I peeked out the window beside the door and saw Greg standing on my porch, wearing a Santa hat, a T-shirt and shorts, and a huge red bow.
I whipped open the door. "Are you insane?" I demanded. "It's fifteen degrees out here! What are you doing here like that? Get in here!"
"I brought your Christmas present, Sheila," Greg said through chattering teeth. "I thought you'd be happy to see me."
"Of course I am, but you're going to catch pneumonia." I closed the door. "What do you mean, you brought my Christmas present? Where is it?"
Greg pointed at the bow that covered half his torso. Ribbons from it wrapped around him. "Right here. I'm it, Sheils. I know you're interested, and I've wanted you since I met you. So now's our chance." He lay down on the floor under the Christmas tree that I'd put up in a failed attempt to make myself feel some Christmas spirit. "Go ahead. Unwrap your present."
I laughed. "You really are insane." But he was right; I did think he was hot, and I'd been interested in him since the first time we'd met at one of the chat room meet and greets. The sexual tension between us had been building since then. And now here he was, under my tree, all wrapped up for me. Hell, who was I to turn down a gift?
I knelt beside him and tried to untie the bow. "Where did you get this thing?" I asked. "And how do I get it off you?"
"I've had it for a while, because I've been planning this for a while. I knew you'd be spending Christmas Eve alone. If you want to get the bow off, keep working at it; if you want your present badly enough, you'll figure out a way to get it open."
I kept picking at the bow with my fingernails. "I'm gonna get scissors and just cut the damn thing off."
"If you're that impatient, do what you have to do." Greg folded his hands behind his head and crossed his legs. "I'm nice and comfy here. It's up to you to open me."
"What about me?"
"This is your Christmas present, Sheils. Anything you want."
Anything? Just the thought made me wet. Many times I'd fantasized about Greg while, um, taking care of myself. I'd never thought I'd have him like this, though. "Anything?"
"Anything at all. Once you unwrap me, that is."
Screw untying the bow. I grabbed my scissors from my desk and started cutting. "Hope you weren't planning on reusing this bow."
Greg grinned. "Nope. I don't plan on regifting myself."
With the bow out of the way, I could see the Christmas tree on the front of Greg's T-shirt. It matched the little trees scattered over his shorts. "You really do get into the spirit," I said.
"Yeah. And now I want to get out of it."
"I thought this was my present. Doesn't that mean I can unwrap it as slowly as I want?"
"You cut off the bow. I don't think you want to unwrap me that slowly."
He was right. I tugged at the bottom of his boxers, then changed my mind about what I wanted to see first. "Sit up," I said.
He did, and I pulled his T-shirt off. Damn, his chest was even hotter than I'd thought! All pecs and no hair. I couldn't resist kissing right between his nipples. "Keep doing that and you'll get more of a present than you're bargaining for," he said.
"Oh, really?" I kissed him there again, then, for good measure, licked each nipple. "How about now?"
"Mmm. I think you'd better finish unwrapping." He lay down again. "Go for it."
There was a nice bulge at the front of his shorts. I ran my hand over it. "Feels like you brought a nice, big package for me," I said.
"Find out."