I made sure to be extremely thorough showing my gratitude. So did she. We ended up needing to shower again before getting dressed to get to our reservation. It was a nicer place, French cuisine (and they called it cuisine, too, this was not one we could afford to go to frequently). I got into a dressy shirt and slacks, finding the fit looser than it used to be. Gave me an excuse to pull out one of the ones I hadn't fit into in a while, with the silver tie. I was looking good.
Observers could be forgiven for not realizing I existed, however. Lucy stepped out in a little red shoulderless dress that fit her like her own skin. I could see her abs through it, along with acres of cleavage. It ended just at the knee, low enough that nobody would be able to see anything but more than high enough for me, knowing that there was nothing underneath it.
She had to blow me again to get me down enough to fit back into those pants, gently sucking on the tip as I shot into her waiting mouth.
I could see the valets rolling their eyes as I drove up. My commuter car was not one that promised generous tips. The one who stepped forward to open the door, only to find my wife there, probably started mentally composing a Dear Penthouse letter on the spot. The crowd parted for us easily, the Maitre D' barely able to look at his notes to confirm our reservation. Any time I could take my own eyes off of her, I was internally laughing up a storm at their reactions. It was like they had never seen a seductive 6'2" supermodel with enormous boobs in a skintight dress before.
Our table was off to one side, and after we settled down and decided on orders we got to an old, shared hobby of ours. People watching. There never was anything quite like seeing how everyone went about their day, often with a dry joke or serious consideration at some point. The game was a bit different this time, though.
"One... two... three, four, five..."
"What are you counting, Lucy?"
"The number of people I catch red-handed staring at me who immediately try to turn to their table and pretend they weren't."
This time, I couldn't help but laugh. To think that our little table would be the center of attention for once. "You know what would be more fun, love? Look over two tables to your left."
"The bunch of guys in business suits?"
"That's them. Looks like they're here to close out something important. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to make one of them spill their drink or get removed from this fine dining establishment without getting us removed in return."
"I like the way you think, love. Watch your elbows, the soup is coming." And so it was. A flavorful number featuring chopped something or other in a white cream broth, I could never remember the names. Then again, I'd later barely be able to remember the soup. Just what my wife did with it.
She waited for an opportunity, one where at least a couple of them were looking straight at her. It didn't take very long, I could hear their conversation fade in and out as people lost their trains of thought in her cleavage. One of those times, she took three actions at the same time.
First, she took an exaggerated breath in, making her chest look even bigger than before and slipping delicious millimeters up out of her neckline
Second, she turned to face directly towards the business group
And third, she "missed" her mouth with a half-spoonful of creamy soup, splashing it directly on said cleavage.
To say that drinks were spilled was an understatement. At least one fell out of his chair entirely. At one table off to the right a bit, an angry girlfriend or wife threw her water in her significant other's face. A waiter in the area tripped, landing two plates on the carpet instead of the table they should have gone to.
That said, she still technically failed her mission. The Maitre D' came over personally about three minutes later, as we were still giggling like schoolchildren and finishing our soup course. He was equal parts apologetic, stern, and looking down her dress as well as he asked us to please leave.
I guess the soup ended up free, since we had to leave before the bill came. I'll take what I can get, but that left us short by more than half of our date. "So, uh... sorry for egging you on."
"Oh, don't be. I'm the one who swatted a mosquito with a cannonball."
"Can't argue that point. Still, what would you like to do?"
"You know what? Maybe something a little different. Hit a bar?"
"Hah, that
is
different. Lead the way."
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She had to readjust the seat a bit to drive, and even then the steering wheel kept brushing her chest, the look on her face telling me that this was having a major effect on her. The bar she stopped at a short time later was trendy, in the same general area as the restaurant we had just left. Perhaps three or four blocks over. The sign above the door said "The Hourglass", lit but not in neon. There was a significant line outside, as well, and this time around I didn't have reservations to get us in the door. Not that it mattered. She walked up and the sea of humanity parted like Moses was behind us raising a staff.
This continued all the way inside, directly to the bar itself, as I followed closely in her wake. The DJ was playing something about twenty years too young for my tastes, but with a pleasant beat underneath. The bar itself was full, until she approached it, at which point the two seats directly in her path became suddenly available, their previous occupants scooting to the sides with a sense of both urgency and admiration. Her merest smile and nod of acknowledgement seemed enough to make it worth it for them.
The bartender was a man around our age who materialized in front of us as though he teleported there, drinks page in hand, but she already seemed to know what to order. Mine was a beer, one of my favorites and one I hadn't seen anywhere walking in. Hers was... too many words long and sounding fruity, with the word "virgin" in there somewhere. We ordered wings as well, the soup from before was nice but wouldn't hold for the rest of the evening.
She looked at me with admiration as we settled there, but I was the first to speak. "Didn't know you've been here before. I didn't even know it existed."
"I haven't. Saw the sign for it as you drove us to the other place."
"Really? You ordered for the two of us without needing to look at the menu, and I was actively looking for Killian's on the way in but didn't see it."
"Oh, that. Read them on someone else's menu as we walked past a booth." I was floored, and her own brain caught up to the words that came out of her mouth a second later. "Wait a second. I read it off a menu as we walked by? How did I do that?"
"I think you said it yourself this morning. A lot more than your body got the treatment." My brain was trying to fly in five different directions at once, but this one was not hard to spot. "You're seeing better, processing the info better, and using it better. It's more than just motivation, love. It's more than your sexy body. I married you loving the body you were in, but that wouldn't have held us together for more than a month. Your mind has always been what kept me. I mean, even after years out of the active field, I trusted you to grade things I brought home. Your outside just matches your inside now."