Several days had passed since I had successfully "taught" my young protégée the finer points of satisfying a woman.
Jake had proven to have quite an aptitude for pursuing this delicate art.
We had spoken several times since then, making a few references to that fateful evening, mostly speaking of it in animated tones, referring to it in a flirtatious manner.
He phoned me one evening with an invitation to a party to be held by some industry friends he had recently made. The party was being held in a Hollywood hotel, in one of the penthouse suites.
He mentioned that there were other friends he had invited when I commented that I didn’t want anyone to think we were "together".
"It’s cool" he explained.
"I told them I was inviting a few friends and neighbors" he added.
"You will be presented as one of my neighbors".
I agreed that it was a sound plan and he gave me the details of the date and time.
We drove to the hotel together the evening of the party and entered the hotel lobby. He greeted several other young men and women and began chatting with them casually.
"Good." I thought to myself.
"No one thinks anything of me being here with him".
Quite frankly, no one had even noticed me, and I was fine with that.
Jakes’s friends quickly entered the elevators to head up to the hotel suite, while he stayed behind, using the hotel phone in the lobby. He mentioned that there was another friend he wanted to check in with, and that friend was staying in the hotel.
I waited for him as he tried to locate his friend, while the remainder of the guests arrived and went up to the hotel suite.
The lobby was empty by the time he got off of the phone and we proceeded to enter the hotel elevator, alone.
Jake immediately sensed my ambivalence and asked me what was wrong.
"What floor is this suite on?" I questioned nervously.
"the 15th" he replied.
He looked at me again, with interest.
"you okay?" he asked cautiously.
"I’ll be fine" I lied.
"Okay, what’s wrong?" he asked.
"I’m embarrassed to tell you" I started.
"Tell me" he insisted.
"I hate elevators" I blurted out quickly.
"Oh really?" he replied, his face full of interest.
"No, Jake, you don’t understand. I REALLY hate elevators".
My palms were sweating, and my heart was pounding as the elevator began to rise.
Jake laughed a little.
"It’s not funny, Jake" I shot back. "I have a severe elevator phobia".
He smiled, laughed and shook his head.
Just then, the elevator jerked. Then it stopped. My fear turned to panic very quickly.
Jake saw the panic on my face and tried to gather me into his arms to calm me.
It didn’t work.
I began to claw at the door, "open, oh my god, open"…….I was totally freaked out by now.
Tears started to well up in my eyes, and I couldn’t breathe.
"Calm down, it’s going to be okay" he chided.
"No its NOT!!!" I cried at him.
"Look, I know all about phobias" he continued.
"No you don’t, no you don’t, you don’t know about this….You don’t understand…..we’re gonna DIE in here….." I screamed incoherently, wailing like a preschooler.
I fell to the floor and sobbed like an idiot.
"We’re never getting out of here…the car will fall 800 feet and we’ll be like bugs on a windshield…" I moaned out of control.
I was deep in the throes of a full blown panic attack, brought on by my phobia, exacerbated by the elevator’s refusal to move.
Jake picked up the phone in the elevator and calmly called for help, while I ranted and raved in the background. When he was done, he sat down next to me, and wrapped his arms around my shoulders.
"Listen to me" he began. "We are going to get out of here." He soothed.
"No we aren’t" I muttered between sobs, my words catching in my throat.
"I just spoke to the elevator folks" he told me. "the good news is that we WILL get out of here." "The bad news is that we’re gonna miss that party!" he looked at me calmly.
"Wh….what??" I barked.
"They’ll be here in a few hours" he told me as I launched into another tirade in response to yet another panic attack.
"I can’t, I mean I can’t sit in here for that long, we’re gonna die, we’re doomed, oh my god…help me" I raged.
I tried to stand up, but my legs were so wobbly that I plopped back down on the floor. I was reduced to a heap on the floor of the elevator, sobbing uncontrollably, muttering things like "what if the car falls….what if the lights go out……what if there’s an earthquake".
I heard Jake’s voice amid all my ranting. It was firm and clear.
"Look at me" Jake said loudly and squarely.
I looked directly at him, tears streaming down my face, shaking like a leaf.
"I WILL NOT let anything bad happen to you." His voice was commanding, almost reassuring.
"Breathe slowly, in through your nose, out through your mouth…" he ordered.
I started to do as he ordered. One breathe. Good, we’re steady. Two breathes, I am cooking.
Suddenly the elevator jerked once more and I reacted quickly.
I screamed.
Jake pulled me into his arms and muffled my scream by covering my mouth with his.
He kissed me deeply and passionately, making me almost forget that we were trapped like caged animals in a little box which was suspended more than 100 feet from the ground, and in my phobic mind, the little box was dangling precariously.
Jake was entirely unfazed by our situation, which I could not understand.
He laid me down on the floor of the elevator and continued to kiss me aggressively, his tongue probing my mouth, catching my tongue, his teeth finally lightly biting my upper lip, his lips pulling mine seductively into his.
Intent to keep me from focusing on our situation (and I suspect, to preserve his eardrums from my shrill shrieks in response to the imagined "falling elevator"!) he started to unbutton my blouse slowly, while he continued to kiss my lips and explore my mouth with his tongue.
Jake’s fingers lightly traced the outline of my now hardened nipples through the sheer material of my bra. He easily slipped his hand into the bra cup to play with my nipple while continuing to kiss me deeply.
He squeezed the nipple, rolling it gently, teasing me with his every move.
His free hand cupped my face, wiping the stray hair off of my forehead. We kissed again, my breath becoming ragged now from sexual tension instead of panic.
Continuing on his way, Jake finished unbuttoning my blouse, and pushed it from my shoulders. Cradling me in his arms, he pulled the blouse from off of me and unlatched my bra.
I started to protest, but he put his fingers up to my mouth indicating that he wanted me to remain silent.
His eyes were boring into me with intensity, he had total control of this situation.
He removed my bra and laid me back down on the floor.
I quashed the urge to speak, instead letting him control the events. I was so scared of the freaking elevator that this diversion had a very calming effect on me.
Jake knew this and unleashed his plan.
Jake’s hand traveled down past my skirt and up to my inner thigh. He brushed the soft skin with his fingers, laying the palm of his hand onto the underside of my thigh, squeezing and rubbing it gently with wide sweeping motions.
His fingers began to toy with the edges of my panties, as if seeking a way to enter the shelter inside.
I moaned in response to his fingers lining the edges of my gates.
He easily slid his hand into my panties and cupped my garden, slowly and deliberately pressing his fingers past the edges and into the wet depths.
He then laid his upper body on top of mine, leaving just a small opening for one breast to be played with. Kissing, licking and biting my soft breast and rock hard nipple, his hand continued to explore my lower depths on a seek and destroy mission.
His finger landed on my hot love knot and he circled it in slow deep patterns.
I heard myself groan under his ministrations, as I felt the warmth begin to grow in my pelvis.
Round and round his finger circled my nub, the intense feelings building like a volcano about to erupt.