"What?" I was stunned. "Aren't you exhausted?"
Tracy was still giggling from the way I reacted to her suggesting that she walk on me again today. "Well I'm a little tired, but not too wiped out to, you know..." and then she stomped her feet on the floor of the train a few times.
"You just walked on me for the first time the night before last. You want to do it again today?"
"Well you said you were up to it yesterday but that fell through. Now you've had an extra day to recover, not that you needed it as you said, so why not? Besides, I have my stomping shoes on." and she winked at me.
"I thought those were your punk shoes, when did they become your stomping shoes?" Now I was just being a smart ass, and she knew it.
"Oh, I don't know. About the time you were telling me about your old girlfriend jumping on you. Or maybe last night when I was texting and you kept bringing me back to the subject. You know, the times that you were getting me all excited to do it."
I just sat there looking at her, not quite knowing what to say as the train was pulling into my station. Of course I wanted her to walk on me again. Of course I wanted her to do it in those shoes. And of course I wanted her to do it tonight. I was trying to drown out the little voice in my head that was reminding me that she had been wearing the same clothes for two days. The one that was also reminding me of the odor that puffed up out of her shirt when she gave me a hug at the train station.
The train was pulling to a stop. I still hadn't said anything so Tracy tapped me on the forehead a few times saying "Hello, anybody in there? Looks like I rendered you speechless."
I snapped out of the discussion in my head and said "What, oh, sorry."
"So mister smart guy. Am I getting off at your stop?"
I answered "Of course"
Tracy rested her head back and closed her eyes while we were driving to my house. I told her that it was fine if she was too tired; I could drive her to her car and we could do this another day.
She gave me a bit of a side eye and said "Oh no, you're not getting out of it that easy."
When we got to the house she sat on the couch and I went down to the TV room and yelled up the stairs to ask if she wanted a drink..
She yelled back "Anything but tequila"
I had myself a good laugh at that, "You'll have to be a little more specific"
"If you have any white wine that would be great."
I brought up a couple of glasses of wine and sat next to her, saying "So, what do you have in mind?"
Tracy stared into her glass for a minute and said "You know what, I don't know. I had myself all worked up today. Between your story, those texts last night, in case you didn't notice I thought about it a lot yesterday. And all day today I just had these vague flashes pop in and out of my head of stepping or stomping or jumping on top of you. It has to be from what you told me about. But now that we're here I don't know how to start."
"Well it looks like I called your bluff" I said. I was hoping that maybe busting her chops would snap her out of it.
"Oh it was no bluff. I fully intended to jump on you right until it came time to do it."
"Ah ok. So you have the chance and you get cold feet huh?" I gave her a nudge to let her know that I was just joking with her.
That smirk came to her lips then and she said "They're definitely not cold, you'll find out about that soon enough."
There we go, the sassy young woman I was hoping to see was showing up. I kept it up; "Seriously? You've been wearing those shoes and stockings for two days."
"Just count yourself lucky that I didn't sleep in them, otherwise I'd have been wearing them straight through from yesterday morning. At least I took them off for those three hours"
Jeez, three hours of sleep, how was she still awake? "You only took them off for three hours? Now I don't know what would be worse, being walked on with those boots or with your stocking feet"
"Well you'll just have to compare and let me know then, won't you?" She put her glass down and stood up, walking to the side of the couch. "Up"