The monochrome of the world rolls to colour as I make my way to your house. Two weeks have passed since we spent the night together and I've replayed this in tantalising detail. Now, the fifteen minute drive from my place to yours feels unreasonably long, my heart racing, the frisson of excitement tying my stomach in knots, the stirring of desire... the feeling of wetness soaking into my underwear despite myself.
As I park and walk to your front door, I imagine saying the things I know I should say to you: I should put my husband, my family, first. What happened between us cannot happen again. Can we still be friends? Unfathomable. I know exactly what will happen, what I desperately want to happen, what I've fantasised about for weeks, and I know it's futile to resist you: my perfect obsession.
How I long for your touch.
You open the door and your smile pierces my heart; I feel wobbly, a soft melty sensation running right through me, and all other thoughts dissipate as I cross the threshold into your world...
As is often the case when I'm near you, I find myself tongue-tied, thoughts I wanted to share with you fall beyond my reach, my words scattering; the sight of you takes my breath away.
Our greeting is clumsy: just enough time to register the scintillating green of your eyes before we hug, the hot proximity of your pelvis to mine, a few seconds pretence of just saying Hello, half-formed sentences as our arms encircle each other's neck and waist... and then our lips meeting, the immediate push of our tongues - soft, deep, intimate - and I can tell from the way you're kissing me that you were aroused before I knocked on your door, that you've been waiting for this moment, waiting for me, as I have for you.
In the bohemian ambience of your hallway you breathe life back into me, a kind of resurrection. Like solved puzzle pieces, our bodies reassemble and vaguely, as if from a distance, I wonder what I've done for the last couple of weeks, where I've been, who I've been with, when it only seems that I inhabit this other world, this dreamscape, with you.
I let my bag fall to the floor as we kiss harder, our hands sliding to each other's waists, riding up the fabric of our t-shirts, sighing into each other as we feel the warmth of each other's hidden skin. Around us electrons shift, the air heavy with delayed desire, our ravenous passion for one another taking over, our reconnection an essential nourishment.
We undress one another for the first time, lifting our tops over each other's heads, sliding our trousers down the soft skin of our legs - the tender undressing of love - until we're pushing against each other wearing just our underwear: the incredible feeling of satin and lace against bare skin.
Still kissing me, and with a little too much force, you push me back against the side wall of your hallway and my body rebounds against yours, our breasts squeezing together, the ricochet of our tongues, struggling for air. I'm so overwhelmed with desire for you that I'm not sure if I say these words out loud: I've missed you so very much.
As we kiss, our hands explore each other's bodies until we're sliding each other's bras down, the band sitting across our rib cages, the straps catching around our arms. The spill of our breasts into each other's hands, laden with their perfect weight. Our nipples, pert from the slight chill of your hallway, warming under our fingertips; prickles of goosebumps dissolving in our searching palms. We massage each other here and you're pushing into me, our legs intertwined, the slow rub of our clitorises against the soft skin of each other's thighs, the sensual feeling of our growing wetness rubbing against the fabric of our underwear, the only thing which separates our skin.
Now, you stand back just a little and trail your fingernails down my stomach and over the outside of my thong, the pressure and heat of you driving my wild as you stroke me here. Thrilled by the anticipation of your fingers making contact with my bare skin, I gyrate against you until, finally, your hand moves underneath the fabric...
Your gasp as you slide your fingers down on me sucks the breath from my mouth and I feel wonderfully dizzy as you breathe your words back into me: How are you so wet?
Over a couple of seconds, a montage from the last fortnight reels before my eyes: lying in bed with my husband, desperately trying not to think of you but, of course, thinking of you, powerless to stop the sensual replay of images, to stop myself from reliving the sensations of your body touching mine... desperately trying not to touch myself but feeling my wetness build until, when I shift my body slightly in arousal, my juices rub against the inside of my thighs so that even this small movement is exquisite.
Surreptitiously rolling onto my back in the darkness of my bedroom, I finally give in and slide my fingers down on myself and rub my wetness up to my clit, perilously, trying not to make a sound, stifling my hot shallow breaths as my come drips down between my legs and I can feel it on my anus, rubbing in between my bum cheeks, all of me soaking wet.
I know I can't risk coming in the silence of my shared bedroom - at least not when I'm thinking of you - so I prolong my growing pleasure, slowly sliding then circling my fingers over my clitoris, then forcing myself to stop just before I climax, stroking my fingers over the wet hair surrounding my clit and labia, sometimes moving my fingers up to touch the less sensitive strip of skin which runs up from the nub of my clit, sometimes sliding down to stroke my puffed lips, slipping my fingers just into my opening, not wanting to risk the more abrupt movement I'd need to make to slide my fingers completely inside myself.
This delay of fulfillment is both satisfying and torturous and, like approaching thunder, the time I can spend touching my clitoris diminishes every time, my lower abdomen almost aching with my irrepressible desire to come. So as I stroke my fingers back up to my clit once more and nearly lose myself to the inevitable storm of orgasm, I know I can't stay in bed any longer...
Furtively, I creep to my bathroom, so wet now that my come is dripping down the inside of my legs, and I shut myself in and listen for a moment... Everything remains dark and still as, standing, I lean back against the warm towels of my tall metal rail and squeeze my breasts with my sticky hands, lightly pinching my nipple with my fingers before I let my other hand slide back down between my legs.
My clit responds immediately, so needy for this uninterrupted touch, and I sink back into the softness of the fabric behind me, rubbing myself harder and faster, stopping only once to bring my wetness up to my nipples, before my orgasm explodes through my body, the air static, my clashes and shakes absorbed by the towels, and I suppress my moans in almost silent release, somehow managing to hold myself up as my legs shake precariously beneath me.