Copyright 2022 Liza Sharpe. All Rights Reserved.
Author's Note: All characters in this fictional story are over the age of 18, and are products of the author's dirty imagination.
1
Melissa rolled over to glance at the clock on her nightstand. The amber glow read 5:57, three minutes before the alarm was set to go off. Reaching over, she shut off the alarm and slipped out of bed, careful not to disturb her husband Richard, who was softly snoring beside her. She stepped into her house slippers and pulled her bathrobe on over her ankle-length white nightgown.
She went into the bathroom, doing the things all humans must, then washed her hands carefully and brushed her hair. Long and sleek, her medium brown hair had auburn highlights that complemented her hazel eyes. She pinched her cheeks to enhance her rosy complexion and rinsed her mouth with mouthwash before she headed to the kitchen.
She efficiently unloaded the dishwasher she'd run just before bed last night. "A place for everything, and everything in its place," she said, one of her mottos for a happy life.
She started a pot of coffee and gathered the items she needed for breakfast. She diced onions, bell peppers and mushrooms, then quickly scrambled a half-dozen eggs, enough for omelets for her husband and their 18-year-old son Tyler. She set the table and stepped back, gazing at it with a critical eye. She adjusted the placement of Richard's coffee mug, checked again, and nodded, satisfied with the result.
Melissa believed in doing her best in every task, no matter how mundane or repetitive. While Richard worked to provide for the family's financial needs, her job, as she saw it, was to ensure her family was well-cared for. Well-prepared, nutritious meals, a clean and tidy house, and a pleasant home environment were all important, as well as ensuring she satisfied Richard's needs as a husband and as a man.
She went outside to retrieve the morning paper; Richard was an old-fashioned kind of guy, and enjoyed having a newspaper to hold while he read at the breakfast table. She set the paper on his chair, pulled out and ready for him. She glanced at the clock and began heating the omelet pan and a second pan to warm the ingredients. She grated cheese and diced some ham, then began cooking.
While she cooked, she mixed some cut fruit for a side dish and poured a glass of orange juice. Tyler would sleep in a bit later; having just finished high school, he was working a mid-shift job to earn spending money before he went off to university.
Richard slipped in quietly behind her at the stove, reached around her waist and pressed himself close to her body as he kissed the side of her neck, his hands straying upward to cup her firm breasts, causing Melissa to coo happily.
"Good morning, beautiful," he murmured. Melissa turned in his arms, her own going around his neck as she pressed her mouth to his, nibbling his lower lip the way he liked so much.
"Good morning, stud."
"Did you sleep well?"
"After everything you did to me last night?' Melissa pulled back, smiling as she gazed at the man she loved. "I slept like the dead, lover."
Richard smiled. "So did I." They kissed again; though they'd been together over 20 years, since their senior year in high school, the couple still acted much like they had as newlyweds. It was a rare night that they went to bed without making love, and they still drove each other wild.
Melissa pulled away to check breakfast; Richard stayed close by, his hands moving over her body.
"Hungry?" she asked, a playful note to her voice.
"Famished, but we don't have time," Richard answered, an old joke between them.
"There's always tonight," she promised as, reaching behind her, she slipped her hand between the opening of his own robe and closed her hand around what she found there. She let a happy groan escape her lips as she patted her husband's bulge. Her husband chuckled as he sat at the table.
Melissa added the ham and vegetables to the omelet, then quickly chopped some fresh herbs and sprinkled them and cheese over the eggs and plated the meal.
Richard had the paper flat on the table as he scooped fruit from the cup. "Fresh blackberries," he said with a sigh. "My favorite."
"Don't I know?" Melissa smiled, glad her husband still appreciated the little things. She set his omelet in front of him.
"Any requests for dinner?" she asked as she watched her husband eat.
"Whatever you'd like to make, my love," he answered, poring over the local news. Melissa sipped her coffee; she herself wasn't a breakfast person and wouldn't eat until later in the day, after she'd gotten her workout in. She swore that skipping breakfast was one reason she had maintained her figure through one pregnancy and twenty years. The couple were both 38; she'd conceived and given birth to their son at age 20, while Richard was still in college and she worked in her mother's bakery. The unplanned pregnancy helped them clarify their values in a hurry; both hoped for a family and they were in love, no doubt about that. They'd arranged a quick wedding before Melissa started showing too obviously. Neither gave a thought to how their married life began anymore; they were too compatible and happy to dwell in the past like that.
After eating, Richard went to get ready for work. Melissa cleaned the mess and wiped out the now-cooled omelet pan and set it back on the stove, ready for her son to come out for his meal. She stripped the sheets from their bed and replaced them, then threw the soiled linen into the wash. She hummed as she worked, a woman content with her life.
2
After sending Richard off to work with a kiss, Melissa opened her laptop to check her email and her cloud-based calendar. She found it most helpful to keep track of her schedule this way; though she'd checked her schedule yesterday, she wanted to make sure none of the groups she was active with had made any changes that would affect her.
"Perfect," she said with a smile. She really had nothing that required her attention this afternoon. She woke her son with a knock on the door. "Last call for breakfast, sleepyhead," she said, poking her head in the door. Tyler, laying on his stomach, raised his head off his pillow, looked at his mom, blinked twice, and let his head fall back to the pillow.
"Five minutes," Melissa heard from the bed.
"I'll start your omelet."
"Thanks, mom."