"... and a large buttered popcorn." He finishes ordering, turns to me and asks, "Anything else?"
"Chocolate," I answer, pointing to the box of nonpareils in the glass case.
"Little bedazzled nipples," I whisper in his ear.
His snort of laughter startles the clerk who smiles nervously as she completes our order.
Gathering up our snacks, we head to the corridor behind the concession stand, walk down the dark hall and find the door.
"Here okay?" he asks, pausing at a short row of seats tucked away in the very back of the room. Judging from their boisterous behavior, the handful of people scattered right in front of the screen are college students already well on their way to celebrating the weekend. It's isolated where we're sitting, no one within a dozen rows.
The room darkens and the familiar fanfare of the previews begins. We nibble on our snacks and talk quietly, our voices unheard in the din of rock music and sound effects blasting from the speakers mounted on the wall. Our talk turns to movies and first dates.
He smiles at me in the darkness and whispers, "Just about now is when I'd make my move". He yawns exaggeratedly and stretches, his arm moving around and resting on my shoulder.
"Right about now is when I'd begin wondering if he was going to kiss me," I murmur.
"I'd certainly want to," he replies, pulling me closer to him as the theatre dims and the movie credits roll across the screen.
"Oh, yes," I say as our lips meet.
We kiss. Lightly, gently at first, our lips barely grazing each other, then longer and deeper. Kisses as sweet, as enticing as dark chocolate, tongues sliding into open mouths, first tentatively, just tasting, then more insistently. Dancing and tangling. We kiss until the characters on the screen are just a blur. The movie theatre fades away and the whole world is just the two of us, mouths together, bodies yearning for more and more. We kiss until we are out of breath and break apart gasping, panting, sucking in air.
He drags kisses across my cheek and down the side of my neck. Gentle nibbling little kisses, changing into licking, his mouth on me sucking lightly the sensation of his lips right there sends shivers and desire deep into my core.
I whisper into the darkness, "Suck harder. I want you to leave your mark on me."
I lean my head back offering my neck to him. His mouth sucks and I moan, feeling his fingers touching my lips, reminding me to be quiet. I suck his fingers into my mouth, tasting salt and butter but wanting to taste him.
There's a noise behind us and we pull apart. The door to the lobby bangs open and a wedge of light illuminates the seats next to us but we remain cocooned in our darkness. He pulls me tight, playing with my hair and caressing the skin of my neck, his hand gliding down until he brushes the top swell of my breast. I can feel the heat of his touch as he edges first one finger then another into the neckline of my top.
"I wish I was touching your bare breast," he whispers in my ear.
"Oh, so do I," I whisper back and I guide his hands to the buttons.
"You do it. I want to watch you undress for me." He gently turns me in the seat so I'm shielded from view and so he can watch me.