Friday evening, April 3, 2020
I took a deep breath, trying but not succeeding in making the lump in my throat go away before knocking on the door of the address Elle had given me. I'd read somewhere, long ago, probably some novel, that a knock on the door is more personal than ringing the doorbell, probably not in any etiquette manual since I've never opened an etiquette manual. For whatever reason, it stuck in my head, probably because it sounded so dumb.
Anyway, I knocked, didn't ring. Then waited, my heart pounding, thinking this was insane, even being there, at another woman's door. What the hell kind of a married man does that? I had just about talked myself into turning and running for all I was worth when I heard the lock click, and the door opened, the smile on the other side of the door to die for.
And my breath caught in my throat, any thoughts in total disarray, staring like the idiot I'm sure I looked like. I had never seen a banker look quite like that. She wasn't dressed slutty or anything like that, but damn! Her skirt was a wrap-around, about three-quarters to her knees, satiny blouse, heels, stockings, lipstick, makeup, absolutely gorgeous... and sexy as fuck!
"You look... wow, just wow," I finally managed to stammer.
I'd been madly lusting after this woman once, for my entire senior year and long after, and it had all come rushing back, engulfing me in the intensity.
She smiled, kissing me on the cheek, "Thank you," she said. God, her perfume! The shock from that innocent little kiss reverberated through my body, I'd say like an electric shock, but that's such a clichΓ©. Still, it was like an electric shock surging through my body, clichΓ© or not. I tried to picture in my brain what a real kiss from her would be like. No way, my brain just shorted itself out trying to go there.
Dinner was, shall I say, fabulous, especially the company. We went to Stockman's Steakhouse, purported to serve the best rib steak in Eastern Washington, and I believed it after the first bite. Succulent, tender, juicy, tasty, exactly what I'd imagined actually kissing Elle might be like, minus the mad rush of emotions.
Oh God, I wanted to touch, all through dinner, it was just aching through me, the temptation nearly driving me insane. I was a gentleman, though, only touching where appropriate, at least where I thought was appropriate, and Elle never seemed to mind. Our booth was very private, too, conducive to talking... and touching in not-so-appropriate places if I'd had the courage.
I was curious, "Where did your nickname, Elle, come from?"
She laughed, "My grandpa, he always nicknamed people, the only thing he could think of for me was the first letter of my name, so I became 'Elle'. It's stuck ever since."
She asked me a little more about my dream during my coma.
I wanted to tell her everything, except I didn't think we had a whole week that night, and that'd be just getting started. Instead, "Let me tell you about the night I tried to recreate one of my dreams." I told her about buying the gold lame dress that Dani wore in the dream; about Rebekka with the double Ks instead of Cs,in my dream, then again in real life; taking Dani to Reno, and then that night.
"I blindfolded her before she even saw the dress, she had no idea just how sexy it was," I told her, then about meeting Mark, how she danced with him, and I couldn't take it, watching them. My narrative went on for a good solid half-hour before I finished, explaining how in our room that night I'd teased and tricked Dani into thinking her old high school crush was the one fucking her.
"And she thought it was...?"
I laughed, "I think at the beginning she thought so but as it went on, she figured it out, just didn't know how I'd done it, but the thought of it got her juices flowing... especially after the night she'd already had."
"And we had a really good night the rest of the night," I told Elle.
"Next day we accidentally met Mark again at breakfast, that was when the conversation came around to the movie from my dream and the talent agent. I don't think Dani would have let me but with Mark's coaxing, we actually called the number I somehow knew, and it was for real; the agent, the movie, everything, just like I'd dreamt it. Long story short, we flew to Tampa the following Monday, she auditioned, and now she's in Montana going to be an actress."
"Funny thing was, her crush I tricked her with that night... guess who's going to be her costar in this movie? Same guy... who she'd already told me she has the major hots for, going to be doing nude love scenes with him."
We finished dinner, and I asked Elle if she'd like to go dancing. "Love to," she said, "I love to dance."
Fifteen minutes later... oh, by the way, I forgot to mention that I'd borrowed Dani's '92 Mustang, thought Elle would enjoy the ride, didn't think Dani would mind me trying to impress my date with her cool, sexy car.
Anyway, fifteen minutes after leaving Stockman's, we were at Mario's Dance Club. It's a nightclub with an emphasis on live music and dancing. That night was 'Tammy Wynette night', a pretty blonde woman named Tonya was singing old Tammy Wynette songs, pretty damned well, too.
Holding Elle in my arms, hers around my neck, was an experience I'll not soon forget; that soft, thin satin blouse hardly concealing anything, breasts pressed tight against my chest, that perfume... oh the temptation of that short skirt! As the night went on and we had a few drinks, our bodies became tighter together, cheeks together, and during the song, 'Almost Persuaded', Elle nibbled on my ear and whispered, "Want to hear a secret?"
"Love secrets," I whispered back.
Her tongue tickled my ear for a moment, then, "I like sex... a lot,"
Huh? Did I hear what I just heard? My dick sure thought so, as it was suddenly... and in that instant, Elle had turned her head just a little and we were kissing. A real kiss this time, not that of the peck on the cheek kind. My previous supposition that Elle would be a great kisser was entirely wrong, totally off base. She wasn't a great kisser at all, she was a GREAT kisser! All of those things I'd imagined earlier were times ten.
I was still in shock, trying to absorb the emotions rushing through me when her lips backed off just a little, "Another secret... I'm not wearing any panties."