Chapter Eight
I woke, refreshed, managed to sneak out of the bed, pee, and get back without waking her.
I propped my head on my palm and just watched her sleep.
In sleep, she shed years but she was NOT a pretty sleeper. She slept with her mouth open, I suspected her nose was plugged, God knows it had been running enough last night. And she was drooling, thick mucus-laden saliva making a thick puddle under her cheek. She was snoring softly.
I got bored and slipped out of bed, and went to check out the kitchen to see if there were at least coffee makings. And, Praise the Lord, there was.
I set about figuring out how the Mr. Coffee machine worked and making some coffee, being quiet, not wanting to wake her.
The machine worked just fine and the sweet aroma of brewing coffee filled the room.
I went in to check and she was starting to stir so I climbed into bed with her. As her eyes fluttered open and she lifted her head from the pillow her hand went automatically to her lip where a string of drool hung. She wiped her lip, looked at her hand, and made that sound best written as "ewwwwwwwww."
I laughed and kissed her.
"You're beautiful," I said.
She rolled her eyes and then rolled her body away from me, getting out of bed and heading for the bathroom.
I followed, kissed her as she peed drawing a giggle, wiped her afterward making her laugh, and then walked her into the kitchen and poured coffee.
"Bless you," she said, inhaling the steam from the cup and holding it in both hands like it as Ambrosia.
We sat like that, in companionable silence, sipped coffee, and met each other's eyes from time to time.
"Sooooooooooooooo," I said at last, "ready to be shown off?"
"Honey," she said, "I am as ready as I'll ever be for whatever you have in mind."
I grinned and said, "I'll take that as a yes. So first we shower, then I pick out what you're wearing and we go to breakfast."
I gave her a second and then said, "sound good?"
She just smiled.
"I'm so nervous I'm about to wet," and she giggled and then continued, "well, I was going to say wet my pants but I don't have any on."
"Come on then," I said, standing and holding out my hand.
She took my hand and flashed a grin.
"Want my mouth first?" she said.
"Later, pervert," I said, pulling her toward the shower.
We showered and I worked hard to keep it from getting sexual. The thought did pass through my mind that I might have created a monster.
Clean and dry, I enjoyed fluffing her hair so it was wild and loose and then sitting her at the little desk in the cottage and doing her makeup. I'm actually pretty good with makeup. This time I put it on a little heavier than she wore it. The base was not too much, but the blush and then the eye shadow, in a very bright blue to match what I had in mind for her to wear gave her a moderately slutty look. The eyeliner added a touch of the exotic to her eyes when I put the little points at the outside corners of her eyes, and the mascara filled her lashes out nicely. I darkened her eyebrows, thickening them a bit, and arching them dramatically. When I was done she looked delightful. A bit slutty but very nice.
When I finally allowed her to look into the mirror she gasped.
"God, are you going to rent me out?" she asked.
"Hmmmmm," I said, pulling her hair back to expose her face even more, "you WOULD bring a good price in some markets."
She giggled and said, "I choose to take that as a compliment."
"You should," I said, kissing her very lightly on the forehead, not wanting to mess up my handiwork.
"Now," I said, standing and offering her my hand, "let's get dressed and get something to eat. You have me starving."
"Me?" she said.
"Yes," I said, "you're making me use SO much energy I have to refuel."
I opened her suitcase and handed her the bright sapphire outfit we had bought in Denver.
She looked at it and looked at me, and sort of moaned before she started putting it on.
I grabbed a button-down shirt, shorts, and jeans and put them on, watching as she dressed.
There wasn't much to it, really. The halter top was hardly more than a bra, and the shorts were what she had called "short shorts" when she tried them on. They were certainly that. The beltline was just below her navel. But they were so short in the legs that when she moved her gluteal sulcus, that line where ass meets thigh, peeked out if she bent over at all.
The sandals I handed her were also fresh from the store, platforms of a very light material, it looked like cork, that angled her feet as if she had on about a two and a half-inch heel. They did good things for her legs and for her walk.
I whistled.
There was a full-length mirror on the back of the closet door, something almost obligatory in this tourist town where the point was to see and be seen. She went to it and looked, doing that womanthing, turning to look at her back and ass over her shoulder, striking poses in the mirror, and giggling.
And blushing.
"Davey," she said, "I don't know if I can."
So I went to her and put my hands gently on her shoulders, bare and inviting, and turned her to face the mirror.
"I am many things," I said, "but I am not a rapist. I won't force you, but I will say that you look absolutely stunning."
And she did. I brushed my fingertips along the line of downy hair between her breasts and down her belly, to where it started spreading before disappearing under the shorts.
"Yes," I said, my fingertips now tracing the thick hair of her armpits down to where it thinned on her sides, "everybody will be looking. And I will be holding your hand, or my hand will be light on the small of your back, and I will be proud to be possessive and show the world how sexy my girl is."
"Am I your girl?" she asked.
"You are," I said, my hands now running down her arms, the palms feeling the very light hair of her upper arms and then the heavier hair of her forearms, "and I want to show you off."
She was staring at the mirror, watching my hands, and I saw her eyes getting red.
"If you cry and mess up my work breakfast will be delayed while I turn you over my knee," I said.
And that seemed to break the tension.
She giggled and turned and kissed me lightly on the forehead, leaving the scarlet lipstick intact.
"Okay, silly boy," she said, "put your hairy girlfriend on display."
The rental house was on the outskirts of town, so we took the car downtown, found a parking spot, and went in search of breakfast.
We had slept late and then taken our time getting ready so it was after 10 when we started walking.
I watched her closely. For the first few steps, she was kind of huddled into herself, obviously making herself smaller and, presumably, less noticeable.
I slapped her ass, making her yelp and making a few passersby look.
"Davey," she said.