Author's note: Yes, there are no quotation marks in this story. It's a style decision on my part, and not an error by a Literotica editor.
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She opened the closet, and there was the kimono. The first thing she thought of was the funky used clothing store in the West Village where she had found it, stuffed on a rack in the back between a peasant blouse and a couple of midi-skirts her mother might have worn. Then she thought of Michael, and almost closed the closet door.
Instead, she took the kimono out, still on the hangar, and put it on the bracket hanging over the bedroom door. She had not heard from Michael in how long? Nine months? She felt her stomach start to do what it always did when she thought of him, and took a deep breath, running her hand over the kimono's sleeve. Just the silkiness made her feel better -- although it also made her think about the first time she had worn the kimono for Michael.
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It was zero and snowing, but neither one of them really cared. After all, when you're in a suite in the Ritz-Carlton in Montreal, you have other things on your mind. And this was the first time the two of them had been away for a weekend, really been away for a weekend, since they had met. She brought the kimono for no particular reason, other than she liked to wear it, feel the silk against her skin. And she had a feeling Michael would like her in it, like the way her long black hair hung on the shoulders and the way the kimono wrapped around her body. He would watch her walk around his apartment, wearing the silk pajamas he had bought her to keep there, and she knew how much he liked the way she looked in them. He often said: Tell me what the silk feels like against your breasts, against your nipples. She would blush, and then tell him -- stammering at first, but lately in long, confident sentences that excited him even more than the sight of her in the pajamas did.
They had dinner in Vieux-Montreal, the old city, at a marvelous and cheap Italian restaurant, where they drank bad Canadian wine that the waitress at first refused to bring them, and ate lentil soup with chunks of sausage and a polenta lasagna that tasted too good to be true. How do you know about places like this, she asked, and he just smiled and said anyone can spend a lot of money. What's more fun is finding a place like this, and being here with you. He reached for her hand as he said it, and stroked it slowly. She saw the waitress watching, felt herself start to feel something that almost scared her. She looked at his face, just starting to show the lines and creases around the eyes that a man his age should have, and squeezed his hand back, moving her fingers on his palm. The waitress turned away, went into the kitchen.
In the cab on the way back, they sat next to each other, as close as their winter coats would allow. Michael kept nibbling on her ear, calling her the pet names she loved -- princess, my little girl, and she could have sworn she was swooning. She was wet, at least, and she wanted Michael to take his hand and somehow find a way to touch her there, and then feed her his fingers.
In the Ritz lobby, Michael asked her if she wanted to get a drink in the bar. She kissed him lightly on the lips, doing it slowly, and shaking her head no. She took his hand and led him to the elevator. I have something I want to put on for you. He grinned. Did you bring something special, princess? Yes, but not what you're thinking, and slapped him on the shoulder.