It all started with her trying to resist me, which was hard for her to do, she kept reminding me, every time. She sent me out of her room so she could sleep. "Go get some sleep; you have an early morning!", she said.
I kissed her neck, taking in, dwelling in, her softness and her smell. More little kisses down to her shoulder, my lips tracing the lines of her neck, not taking a moment of this for granted.
She
let
me, but, made a little grunt like, "hey, stop; I like that too much and we need to sleep!" So, my lips lingered, tracing that line down her neck, feeling the soft of her skin on my lips a few last times. This was rare, and would be, like always, fleeting.
And, right on cue, she pushed me away and said, "Okay, go to bed!" I felt rambunctious (and sweet), but it was time for me to sleep, too. That delicious moment was our goodnight.
But then...
Her eyes. What is that world that dances in her eyes? It pulled me back in. She caught me in that glint in her eye, like a tractor beam. I hovered close to her, unable to move. It might've been just a moment, but it poured right into the middle of me, awakening new things.
My eyes caught the corner of her grin, and my lips needed to respond.
Immediately.
Her devious grin earned a devious response from me. I moved in, knowing she knew full well how much I wanted my lips to contact hers. But I landed right at the corner; still a kiss on the cheek, if a little evocative.
She'd spent an intense split second preparing her protest, and her eyes widened when it wasn't needed. Then her eyebrows came way down while she tried to decide how she felt about all this. My belly filled with electricity to stand there taking it all in; filled until it glowed. She was bouncing and flickering around like lightning, too. We were
in it
.
The magnetic pull between us intensified, but I felt sure-footed and I knew, sleep was a must. As I released her, ready to leave, she caught hold of my wrists. Apparently to slow me down?
And still, next moment--all over again--somehow that wrist hold called in a reset to my system. Her eyes and energy entirely re-captured me, like it was the first time. She had a look of delight and determination.
I held her gaze, silently telling her, "Yeah, I know (!!!),
us
!" then shuffled off to the couch with a contented smile stuck on my face.
The afterimage of her eyes burned in me then. Burned its way clear through me, filling up my belly and creeping all the way down to my toes. I lay down, full of warmth, ready to sleep.
Or maybe not quite ready for sleep... I kept replaying that scene with different variations.
My lips had never touched hers, and I wondered what it would be like if she let me.
I pictured us back in her room. This time, she'd let me try. But she wouldn't kiss me back; she'd just grin at me while I nibbled on her bottom lip, right where she always bites it. She'd pretend to be unmoved, but, all the while, filling with fire. There's no way she'd be able to hide it; I knew I would feel it. I could already feel her feeling us in our every encounter. And I could feel her even now as the scene visited me.
I saw my body pressed against hers, feeling that fire leaping from her belly, flames like fingers, pulling us closer than it's physically possible to be. I'd be tugging drunkenly at her hips to attempt this impossible merging.
She'd catch herself almost imperceptibly moving backward, tiny step by tiny step, until the bed tapped on the back of her legs. I'd keep her moving. Onto the bed. Both of us, legs interwoven, and then, me hovering over her face.
That's when she'd lose control, leave her thoughts, really inhabit her skin. Her hips would shift and tip and sway, into me, like she might move right through me. My hands, full of her skin, would ride her every move, keeping her pressed close, staying in the softness of her thighs.
But then I wouldn't let her kiss me. I'd keep my face just out of reach. We'd be locked in each other's eyes, and I'd melt a little bit more, feeling her breath speed up and watching her bite at her lip impatiently--which, in itself could do me in! But, most of all, her eyes. Always her eyes.
Lying on the couch, as I was, I wondered... were her eyes closed already? What scenes came to her when they did close? Were they anything like mine? When sleep came, would she dream of me? It thrilled me to imagine we were having similar experiences on either side of the bedroom wall. But what if hers were completely different than the images that came to me?
Maybe instead of slow, seductive, & playful; instead of hovering just earthside of feeling we'd be flung into space for as long as we could stay in orbit; maybe she imagined me more assertive, the type who would take charge, who would pin her down, tell her what to do, pretending it was for my benefit, but all the while just trying to rile her up and force her to let go. I wondered whether I could be that type, if she wanted me to.
Oh, wait... or...
What if
she's