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
the assertive type? Maybe I didn't know the half of it. Maybe she would've liked to channel her frustrations into me, until they transmuted into desire?
She'd complain at me for my infractions, push me backwards onto the bed, then straddle me hard, my hips immobilized, and tell me just what my punishment would be. Then, probably, she'd flip me over and let my ass have it, but making sure I didn't come.
She'd start slow, digging her fingers into my ass and thighs, and growl some kind of hot nothings at the back of my neck. She'd render me helpless but to emit involuntary murmurs and groans. They'd become fuel for her, hastening her rhythm, sending tremors down her arms, until her hands couldn't but grasp and claw. She'd collapse onto me, leaving me ravenous, still forbidding me to come, teasing me long enough I'd know she meant it.
Maybe she'd been longing to have her way with me a lot like this but she wouldn't tell me, afraid to offend. It was really setting me to simmer, lying on the couch, wondering what she was dreaming she'd do with me.
As I lay there, the imagery just kept coming. It alternated between my own fantasies and what I imagined hers to be, and sleep didn't feel ready to take me.
Then, I started hearing things. I asked myself, could I have heard her just now, breathing heavy?
I'd hear the heavy paw patters of the restless cat and think it might be her shifting in bed. The cat would find its way to a creaky floorboard and I'd catch myself looking mischievously at the vertical black stripe of her door left slightly ajar, just in case she'd crept out of bed to peek at me. Like, maybe she was hoping she'd be able to see me squirming on the couch after she'd heard
my
breathing getting louder.
And at this point, my breathing was. It had started speeding up before I'd even begun to touch myself.
But imagining her now, surreptitiously watching me through the door crack, I had no choice but to touch myself. In case she was there, I had to give her something more to see and hear. If she
was
standing in that doorway, noticing my breath, my movements under the blanket, I wondered, would she come over and join the fun?
If her first move was voyeurism under cover of night, surely she'd come over and try to be almost ghost-like?: she'd brush almost imperceptibly up my legs from my knees to my inner thighs, waiting to inhale from my energy even the tiniest quaver in my breath. Maybe she'd trace fingers over my hip bones. Or run her palms down my sides. Or walk her fingers from my neck down my collarbones.
Maybe she'd count on my eyes remaining closed, offering only the most subtle bits of contact. She'd know it would feel like the start of something but then, just like a ghost, waft away.
If my eyes stayed closed, if I didn't dare peek, I'd almost be able to believe I hadn't imagined all of it: her face peeking into the room, her sauntering toward me, her devious grin, her touch.