I arrive at the restaurant a few minutes late, as usual. It's a romantic little old-world-style Italian restaurant that I've promised you has excellent Chicken Marsala. It's a little schmaltzy and over-the-top with stuccoed walls, red and white checkered table linens, and heavy dripping candle tapers flickering in old silver candelabras. The clichΓ©, but smooth crooning of Sinatra emanates from speakers somewhere out of site. The sound of laughter and conversation pours like a wave from the open door.
I'm wearing a simple sleeveless, black dress, cut just above my knees. My hair is pinned up in a loose twist with a few errant tendrils that have escaped in the breeze. I have little jewelry on, just a simple ruby solitaire draped from a silvery white gold necklace and smaller matching ruby drop earrings in each ear. I spot you in the crowded vestibule as you smile and take me in completely, ending at my cranberry painted toes peeking out of the little black fuck-me pumps and making your way back up past the delicate ankle straps of my shoes to my bare legs. I lean in and buss you softly on the lips, returning your smile. You pull me tightly to you in a hug and I press my lips close to your ear and whisper my apologies for making you wait. Your hand slides casually down to cup my ass as we pull away. I giggle softly as you smile at the leering old man who was watching it all and his wife, who clucks her disapproval.
Your scent lingers close to my nose for a moment, god I love the way you smell, and I take a moment to admire you in the remainder of your work clothes. The suit jacket is gone, the tie abandoned, and you've unbuttoned the top two buttons of your blue shirt that make your eyes sparkle like the deepest of sapphires. You look at me with that impish smile that tells me you're in the mood to play and I smile back with the devilish look that tells you the game is on.