There is a very good reason why I am staying overnight at your house, in your bed with you, both of us wearing just our knickers and t-shirt: I had another glass of wine and can't drive home; my car has broken down; you invited me over for dinner and we chatted until late...
It is dark outside and - snuggled under your duvet, so close in the half-light - we talk and laugh until somehow our conversation turns (as it has before) to masturbation: what we think about, how we do it, what feels good. Our words tempt each other...
Initially, we're passing it off as a joke but it's not long before we're touching ourselves, slowly and shyly at first, but our bodies are responding to the excitement of what we are about to do. We both know we shouldn't be doing this, but my attraction to you has always been too strong to ignore.
I watch as you stroke your fingers over the top of your knickers... then the bulge of your hand easing downwards beneath fabric. I imagine the heat you are feeling. I wonder how wet you are. Looking up at your face, I see your expression change to one I have only imagined before: desire. I feel a rush of wetness between my legs and, with you watching, I move my knickers to one side and slide my finger down over my clit, to the wetness between my legs and up again, circling my fingers. It feels so good to touch myself like this as I watch you doing the same, our soft moans combining, growing louder...
I have to see you naked.
I'm afraid of breaking this spell, but somehow I ask you to take your clothes off. I can't believe it when you agree but, with a smile, I remember the adventurous, often unpredictable side of your personality which I've always been so attracted to.
There's the urgent pull and slide of cotton over smooth skin before we're both completely undressed, our upper bodies turned towards each other. The fall of your breasts towards mine, the soft curve and the darker pink of your nipples, is almost too much to resist. And as your eyes meet mine and then travel down the length of my body, I know you're thinking the same. God I want to reach out and touch you - but I can't, I shouldn't.
I want you so much.
I gaze into your enticing eyes - dark green, glittering in the low light - and, as always, you are magnetic, charged. It would be so easy, feel so natural, to lean towards you and touch my lips to yours.
I force myself to look away and, as I move my fingers a little faster and harder over my clit, I watch you touching yourself, sliding your fingers into yourself and back up, arching your back in pleasure. What a feeling to see you like this, naked in every way - I could watch you like this forever.
We keep playing with ourselves until I'm consumed by the soaring crescendo between my legs: raw, unstoppable, spiralling up through my limbs and taking me over. My body feels beyond my control now as I instinctively push forward slightly into you and our nipples touch. The feeling of your skin against mine, so warm and alluring, is electric - the tipping point - and suddenly I'm coming, coming and jolting against you, crying out in pleasure. Your eyes upon me as I climax is like sharing a secret, laying myself bare. Becoming yours.
For a second, I take my hand away and you see how wet I am; sticky come between fingers. Impulsively, (I've always loved this about you: the sudden energy of your body in contrast to your stillness and calm) you reach down with your other hand and pull my fingers to your lips. I've just come but the touch of our hands, our fingers together, is the most erotic feeling and new tingles run down the length of my body. I watch in ecstasy as you lick my fingers, tasting my come as you touch yourself harder and faster. You're right, you do look hot when you're flushed!
I can feel the growing tension in your body and, awestruck, I take in every little detail: the provocative motion of you, the heat of your tongue on my skin, your rising noises as you get closer and closer... Can this really be happening? Then you're lacing your fingers into mine, squeezing my syrupy hand tightly as you come, sublime release, your muscles shaking as if a current is passing through you. Did I seriously think I could watch you orgasm and resist touching you?
I want you more than I've ever wanted anyone.
As your cries turn back into muffled moans, I watch your touches slow and my desire takes over. I know I shouldn't, but I'm powerless to stop myself as I take your hand and bring it to my mouth.
I have to taste you.
Our sticky fingers push and intertwine as we lie on our sides now, facing each other - palm to palm - and I lick the salty sweet come from your hands.
Now, there is the inevitable touch of our tongues between fingers and that is all it takes...
Our tongues find each other - as they always would - slowly at first, just the tips, licking and circling. I think of how many times I've come imagining how it would feel to kiss you and the anticipation of kissing you properly sends dizzy waves of desire through my body.
The moment our lips meet tilts the world on its axis. We wriggle towards each other, the length of our naked bodies pushing together, fitting perfectly; constellations align.
We kiss tentatively at first, but as we become aware of our wetness against each other's thighs, the push of our breasts together, our kisses become deeper and even more passionate. Sharp inhalations of breath. Longing, pitched-high sighs. I marvel as the sparks which have flown between us turn to fire and I let my whole body melt into yours. You feel so warm and I fall into the seductive feeling of you, quickening against your body as we start to explore each other with our hands.
We pause and our eyes meet, unspoken yearning, and I feel the core of my being reach out to meet yours. I brush your dark hair across your forehead and trace the contours of your face, your ears, your neck. Running the tips of my fingers from the palm of your hand up your arm, I can see where your beautiful freckled skin, darker in summer, turns pale as I reach your shoulders and caress down... impossibly soft. Whenever I touch a sensitive or ticklish part of you, you smile and squirm closer into me. I'm not sure I've ever felt this happy.
We lie like this for long time, working each other up into a frenzy of desire. As our kisses become more intense, I can't help gripping you a little harder: your waist, the curve of your buttocks, the soft skin on the back of your thighs which I pull towards me. Could I ever be close enough to you?
Rubbing myself against the softness of your thighs, I'm so incredibly turned on and so wet for you; it is so tempting to stay like this in your arms and come again against you.
But what I want more is to touch you, to really touch you and taste you: this has always been my greatest fantasy. I haven't done this with another woman before and, all of a sudden, I'm self-conscious. But, in the same moment, I realise that I've always felt so comfortable with you - being with you feels so easy, so right - and this overrides my hesitation.
Rolling you onto your back, I kiss your face, down your neck, the dips and curves of your body - breathing in the intoxicating scent of your hair, your skin - until my mouth finds your nipple. I circle my tongue and can't believe the sensation of your pink skin stiffening just slightly as I lick you here. Braver now, I touch your other breast, rubbing my palm over your nipple and feeling the weight of your breasts in my hands as I stroke and massage you.
The noises you're making are such a turn on and you rise up towards my body; I can feel you aching for my fingers between your legs and I think suddenly that I know exactly how this feels. For the first time, I'm having sex with someone whose body is like mine, the same familiar pleasure points and urges, but different and unique - exciting and mysterious - like re-discovering lost treasure.
So I resist the urge to place my fingers between your legs just yet and I kiss and lick down your tummy, your belly button, until I'm tracing a line through the wet tangle of your pubic hair to the sensitive skin running down to the button of your clit.
You are moaning more than ever now and thrusting up towards my mouth - but I look up into your eyes, teasing smiles as I pull away and spread your legs open with the palms of my hands.
Kneeling between your legs, I stroke my fingers from your feet up the length of your leg and tenderly kiss the soft white skin of your inner thigh. I move closer and closer to the enticing warmth and wetness between your legs and I'm so excited at what I'm about to do that I can feel myself throbbing in anticipation. But first, I want to see you, to really look at you and this amazing part of your body which I've imagined for so long.
Slowly, I stroke just one finger from your clit downwards, gently touching the folds of your lips, either side, the wetness in between...