The weeks waiting to go to Chicago crawled by slowly. Why didn't I opt for an earlier weekend, I asked myself? For a soon to be college graduate, I must have missed the class in practical scheduling.
I had called the hotel where I would be staying and asked how far it was from the nearest Amtrak station. After learning that it was 'just a few blocks away', I went to the Amtrak station where I purchased round trip tickets for the weekend. Although I knew my car would make it there and back without problems, what I didn't know is whether it would be stolen while there or if I would somehow get a hundred parking tickets.
When the weekend for me to join Nikki in Chicago finally arrived, I was on the early Saturday train heading North. Even though I had brought some study material for the train, my mind couldn't concentrate long enough to study. The last time I had talked with Nikki, she had said, in the interest of fairness, she would have a present waiting for me when I arrived at the hotel. I was still to remember that in no uncertain terms, the evening was all about her.
She also told me I could consider this visit to be a trial of sorts for me to learn if my disposition was in fact as I had described it to her. I didn't even pretend to know what the hell that meant.
"A few blocks my ass." I puffed. April mornings in Chicago can be quite brisk. Also, these damn city blocks were huge, and made larger by the fact that I was carrying large gym bag with two complete changes of clothes, several textbook and other miscellany. Nikki said that I should bring some dressier clothes for our evening out.
I made it into the hotel and went to the front desk. The desk clerk had me sign the register, then told me my key was 'that way' and pointed over my shoulder. I turned around to find an attractive raven haired woman smiling and holding a room key out to me.
"Mark, right?" she asked as I took the key.
"Um, yes. Who are you?"
"I'm Julie, one of Nikki's friends. She had me come to the lobby to meet you and make sure you found your way to your room." she replied. "Follow me." she said, turning and walking towards the elevators.
I followed Julie to the elevators. I was guessing her age at mid twenties, probably five foot nine or so and maybe weighing one forty or one fifty tops. In addition to the light knitted sweater she wore, she was also wearing wool slacks that accented her ass and the of swell of her hips.
We rode the elevator up to the sixth floor, then exited and turned right going quite a ways down the hallway before Julie lightly knocked on a room door.
"Just a minute." Nikki called out from within the room.
Julie said, "Mark, I hope you and Nikki have a great weekend. I've known Nikki since our first year in college and I don't think I've ever known her be this excited over any guy before. She's also told me you are very affectionate and attentive to her. When I asked her what she meant, she said she couldn't explain it and that I would have to meet you and find out for myself. That's why I agreed to be here today."
Nikki opened the door, immediately giving me a quick kiss on the lips.
"Miss me?" she asked.
"Tons." I replied.
Nikki moved aside so that I could step into the room.
The room was very nice. Like really, really nice.
Nikki told me to put my bag on the foot of the bed and open it. While I was doing that she walked to a large wardrobe, opening it to reveal her coat and what looked like a pretty slinky club outfit already on the hangars. She told me to hang my coat while she unpacked my dress clothes and put them on hangars. Unwrapping the newspaper from around my leather shoes, she checked that they were at least kind of shiny before putting them in the bottom of the wardrobe.
Turning back to me, Nikki said, "I told you that this afternoon would be all about you. I really want you to be able to take full advantage of what this city has to offer."
After a pause, she continued with "Tonight will be all about me. Does that sound fair to you?"
"Sure." I answered, although not sure at all.
Nikki said, "Go into the bathroom and get yourself cleaned up then, fold your clothes neatly, take a quick sponge bath, brush your teeth and make absolutely sure you gargle with the mouthwash on the counter before coming out. I'll finish unpacking your stuff.
I soaped up a washcloth and dutifully wiped myself down. After I had dried myself off, I brushed my teeth and took a swig of the mouthwash. 'Blech.', Listerine was not a favorite of mine. I did as requested though, thoroughly gargling, swishing the liquid in, over and between my teeth, finally leaning over and spitting the mouthwash out in the sink, then I rinsed my mouth with a glass of water.
I opened the bathroom door to find Nikki standing there in the doorway and blocking my exit from the bathroom. She pushed me backwards saying, "Um, need to check if you cleaned up the bathroom. Where is the washcloth you used? Oh, I see you've already hung it out to dry. How about the sink, did you rinse the sink? Yeah, go ahead and rinse out the sink." With that Nikki turned and walked back to stand in the bathroom threshold.
I rinsed the sink, it really didn't need rinsed but I did it anyway, dried my hands and carefully pleated the hand towel back to the way it was hanging when I had first entered the bathroom.
"Do you want to inspect the sink Nikki?." I asked.
"No, no. I'm sure it's fine." Nikki replied, turning her head back from the room before saying, "Come here. I want to give you a proper welcome kiss."
She kissed me deeply and I returned her kiss in kind. She broke the kiss with me still wanting more. Smiling devilishly, she took my hand and pulled my towards the room. "Welcome to Chicago, Mark. I've got something to show you."
Nikki let go of my hand as we came around the wardrobe between the bathroom and the main room. She continued walking across the room, and sat down on a cushioned chair against the far wall, pulling her sock feet up and under her.
I stood still just a foot or so of from where Nikki had let go of my hand. My eyes focused on Julie who was standing beside the bed wearing nothing but a sheer light green 'baby doll' negligee.
"She's all yours Mark." I heard Nikki say. "At least for as long as you want her this afternoon."