It was a chilly winter day and I was deeply engrossed in the program I was tweaking, successfully ignoring the howling wind rattling my windows, when my telephone rang. I picked it up without checking the caller ID and was pleasantly surprised to hear the voice of my wife, Kelly.
"Hi honey, how are you doing?" she inquired.
"I'm fine. Just trying to get a couple more things done on the program so I can show it to the client tomorrow. What's up?" I replied.
"I wanted to make sure you don't make any plans for Friday night," she told me. "I'm planning a little something for your birthday and I want to celebrate it on the weekend."
I told her that was fine, and we chatted for a couple more minutes before hanging up. My birthday wasn't actually until the following Monday, five days from now, but celebrating on a Monday is kind of lame, so I was perfectly happy to bend the weekend to that purpose. Besides, I was glad that Kelly was making some special plans in advance. Sometimes, with the holidays so close, I feel like my birthday becomes an afterthought and not an event in its own right. Of course, as Kelly well knows, the main thing I want for my birthday is a hot night of sex with her going all out to drive me wild. Unfortunately, the past two years in a row had been fairly weak in that regard, with her on her period and tired from work both years. But this year she had finished her period last weekend, so I knew that wouldn't hold us back.
The next two days were a blur of long hours working on the software, and then an intense meeting where the client scrutinized every detail and function of it before pronouncing it "excellent". After many hours of hard programming, and days of client needs analysis, I was finally ready to send them a final invoice and move on to my next project. Before I knew it, Friday evening was upon us.
Kelly told me to put on a nice pair of slacks and a merino wool sweater, as we were going out on the town for dinner and dancing. I complied quickly, dressing in a gray wool pair of pants and a fine black turtleneck sweater I had picked up last year, finishing it off with a high gloss black belt and pair of buckled shoes. Kelly likes this combination because it has a very urban European look to it. After that, it was my job to simply stay out of the way while she took her time getting ready.
Finally, about 45 minutes later, Kelly emerged from her ministrations. Showered, legs shaved, made-up and dressed, she made quite an entrance. Actually, I smelled her before she opened the door. She had liberally put on my favorite perfume and it instantly tickled my senses. I like it because it is the perfect all-woman, sexy, classy, but not over-the-top scent for an evening out; she likes it because every time she wears it, half a dozen men ask her what it is so they can buy it for their wives/girlfriends.
Kelly was wearing a relatively short black skirt with a high slit on the right hip, and a tight lacy top that allowed me to see her bra underneath it. For modesty at dinner she held a button up silk cardigan to go over it. She had on a funky new pair of sheer nylons that had a distinct fishnet pattern running through them, and I could see from a slight telltale bump on each thigh that she was wearing them with a garter belt. Finally, she must have gone shoe shopping as she often does, because she was wearing a new pair of boots I hadn't seen before. They were a soft black leather that came just above her calf and added about three and an half inches to her height with their wedge heels that were the width of the boot, but very slender from the side. They were sexy, yet sensible for the cold outdoor weather.
Lighting a cigarette, she sauntered over to me and gave me a kiss. "How do I look," she inquired archly.
I told her honestly that she looked fabulous. Her makeup was sexy as always, and her outfit was stunning. She smiled, pleased, and looked out the window to see our taxi pull up. I helped her into her coat, grabbed mine, and off we went.
Since we live in the city already, it's often much more convenient to take a cab out than to drive. Kelly gave the driver the name of a restaurant I had heard a bit about in one of the local events publications. It was supposed to be a really good French and Indian fusion cuisine with a lot of atmosphere, and I'd wanted to try it badly. As we were driving, Kelly was running her hand up and down my thigh lightly. She asked the driver if it was all right to smoke in the cab, and then pointedly lit up while looking at me. She knows it excites me to watch her smoke and often uses it as a ploy to turn me on when she has ulterior motives.
Snuggling up against me while letting her hand continue to roam my leg, she asked me what I had in mind for the evening. I told her I expected we would have a nice dinner, go out dancing for a while, have several drinks until we both felt nice and happy, and then go home for some hot sex.
"What kind of sex?" she teased me.
I told her I didn't want to jinx it or ruin her plans by guessing, but I hoped we would get out some of her toys and maybe do a double penetration with them, or maybe she would feel like tying me up and teasing me for a while. Kelly gave me a secretive smile and murmured in my ear, "Is that all?"
I didn't get a chance to respond to that challenge because the taxi pulled up in front of the restaurant just then. Kelly gave the cabbie fifteen dollars and we hopped out. At the door of the restaurant, she gave them our name for the reservations she had apparently made, and an assistant host took our coats as another led us to our table. I was not disappointed as we looked around at the interior dΓ©cor. The restaurant was very modern, with a lot of brushed metal fixtures and dark wood furnishings. The tables were close enough to feel intimate, but far enough apart to keep private conversations that way. Soft ethnic-influenced electronic music pulsed from hidden speakers, and the wait staff was dressed impeccably.
We ordered drinks and turned our attention to the menus. After making our selection, we turned to small talk and chatted about our respective days, and some of our holiday plans. However, Kelly never let the discussion stray for too far or too long without giving me some innuendos or flirtatious talk to remind me that she was planning a very good time for us tonight. She assured me that I would be surprised, and that she had a special present in mind for me tonight, and it was something that we hadn't tried before. I was left in basically a constant state of aroused tension, wildly curious as to her intentions. Usually I am the more assertive of us in bed, bringing home a new sex toy or porn movie, or suggesting a new position or kinky twist. But I am also very open telling Kelly about my turnons, even when I know they aren't likely to be fulfilled, so she has a long list to choose from of ways to please me if she wants.
When the food arrived, we turned our focus to eating. The chef was amazing. His dishes were beautiful to behold and delicious to devour. As usual, Kelly and I spent as much time snaring choice morsels from each other's plates as we did from our own. Between our own hunger and the delectable nature of our entrees, all conversation was mutually halted until we finished cleaning our plates. The waiter came over and cleared out table, taking our order for cappuccino and cheesecake at the same time.
"While, besides the fun we're going to have later, I also got you a present to open," Kelly told me, handing me a small wrapped box. I opened it up to discover a beautiful Swiss Army watch. I was shocked, because it had to have cost five hundred dollars, and while we're doing pretty well financially, we don't usually spend anything approaching that on gifts for each other. But Kelly knew my other watch was getting a little older and scratched up - in fact, she had given it to me for out first Christmas almost 7 years earlier. The new watch was a combination of brushed nickel and silver, and like most Swiss Army watches, was both classy and high-tech in appearance. It had multiple hands for various timing and date functions. I noticed one of the hands was slowly running backwards and Kelly followed my eyes.
"It's the chronometer," she explained. "I set it earlier today so that you would know when it was time for your 'surprise' tonight."