Janice -a Woman after Midnight
I was late getting to Deborah's. I'd been away for three months reporting the mess we are making in the Middle East.
I am Peter Fuller. That's what I do, I am a journalist/reporter but the job wrecks one's social life. I have already gone through two broken relationships, being away for so long.
Although Debs and I have been together for three years and purchased a nice little cottage near Winchester, England, she complains all that time that we have actually only been physically together for a period of six months.
"It is not like you are on a nine to five job and we see each other evenings and weekends and sleep together every night. You are off for weeks at a time and I get very stressed about it Peter."
It is understood, who would expect a woman to be that patient in putting up with long absences - unless she really was special, and that's my Debs, I don't know how she puts up with me but I know one thing, it makes me love her all the more and I am absolutely besotted by her, to seriously consider giving up the reporting lark and settling down to being just a writer - like doing my work from home with plenty of time for my girl and our social life, would be a hard nut to crack. I am in my element and love my work very much, I strive to report the facts as they are in my own words which are appreciated, and remaining freelance, I am able to offer my reports to the best bidder.
The vacant space in Deb's double bed has been like it on and off for far too long she complains. And she threatens that an admirer in the film studio has made several advances.
She gets to know the stars too in her work as script supervisor.
"Should I be worried?" I ask myself. I don't think so. She loves me too much.
But when I confronted her about how it must be so harassing for her, as it is with me, to withhold ones natural urges, adding that for a woman she is probably able to handle that; she looked at me daggers.
"You know very well the strength of my passion Peter so don't try to make it better for yourself."
"Well it is the same for me Debs. I just think of you and I am a goner. But that is not like being with you because I love you so much."
I aim to fill that void in our lives regularly; it is a crying shame that a woman like Debs has waited so long. I am taking up a job with Sky local news just undertaking local reporting. I shall miss the excitement of reporting overseas but it is a sacrifice I need to make. And anyway, it will enable me to have more time for my writing projects too
But though I am late Debs lets me in through the door, and greets me with a wonderful open hug , guiding me into the kitchen and fixing me something to eat and drink.
The male in me would much rather want to put that aside for later and be beside her to snuggle up and share her body with mine.
But a woman's practicality being what it is, I resolved that the best thing was for me to get my hunger buds sorted before anything else, and with Debs commenting on the way to my heart was through my stomach and that is what her Mum always said, I had no alternative than to accept.
"After all you need to get back some of that lost vitality if you want to share my bed for the night, Pete. I guess as usual this is just going to be a one night stand and you will be off again tomorrow, right?"
Now she was talking to me again after a brief silence, I knew the absence had made her heart grow fonder and I hoped her lust too. Of course I did, love and lust go together as far as she is concerned Correction; as far as we are concerned. Since I have known her has been a very passionate lover and that's for certain, but she always stipulates 'with the right guy' and so I consider myself very lucky to be her right guy because I have so very much to give her.
I tell her I shall be with her for the rest of the week. She looks at me happily and then says; "Well it is Wednesday today, that'll be four more days if you include the weekend - and then I suspect you will be away for another three months?"
"Yes but that will be the last time I will be parted from you for long periods. You see I have opted to go with the local TV news so I can spend more time at home with you, and perhaps get some writing in too."
"Are you serious Peter?
"Absolutely "
Debs is so very special and I have never known a woman like her, and me treating her the way I do, sometimes I am thinking I ought to be shot. I would be so sorry if she gave me up and could never sleep if she went with another - me thinking that he was getting what should be mine, those so wonderful Debs special's like she was loving for England.
Just the thought that at last I would be sharing her bed and her being had besotted the mind for a week, since I managed at last to get whole week's leave, imagining a whole week with Debs. Heaven!