I awoke to kiss on my sleeping forehead.
"See you later, babe," the lips said softly "I hope you have a nice day off".
"Come and do that again" I whined as he headed towards the door, like I always did. This morning though, instead of blowing me a kiss at the door as usual, he turned back, walked to me, kissed me on the forehead.
"See you later, babe. I hope you have a nice day off".
"You dolt!" I said as he started towards the door again. "Turn around!"
Instantly he span on his heel. I wriggled upright in bed and pouted at him. "I want you to stay with me today." I sighed, resignedly. "I need two of you."
There was no noise but the world sort of scrunched up, like I had been looking through a piece of clear plastic wrap and it was being balled up. When it un-scrunched I was looking at two apparently identical boyfriends. They remained standing expectantly in front of my eyes, despite the rubbing I gave them. The eyes not the boys, obviously. Momentarily I was ecstatic, thinking that I was having a lucid dream, but it was too crisp for a dream.
Mick always looked great in a suit, and God knows he better after the effort we had to go to every time he needed a new one. Stores don't really cater for 6'4'' slim guys off the peg and we can't afford to get him tailoring. That money needs to go towards our downpayment. It's a measure of how half asleep I was that the suit was my first thought on seeing Mick A and Mick B in front of me. 'Getting that suit was easy', I thought, 'I'll get him to take it off and...'. My mind caught up to the possibilities of this 'dream', and then ran off with that potential. I felt my skin prickle all over, like a static charge.
"Um, take off your jackets?" I requested. I tried to be authoritative but I needn't of worried. In unison, two Navy jackets slid off four white cotton covered shoulders.
"Come here and kneel next to me on the bed." Again in unison they knelt one on either side of me, smiling the happy smile Mick always had when he knew he was getting some action that night. That simple grounding in my usual reality emboldened me. I kicked the covers off my bare legs, rubbing the tops of my feet together as I always do when I'm overloaded with anticipation.