I watched him shaving his face in the mirror. Watching a man shave always captivated me. Shaving was quintessentially male, which made it arousing in itself. It was almost pity I felt for them; men having to shave every day, because their raging testosterone caused them this characteristic; this...affliction, of facial hair. Looking at him shave was like watching a poor thing just riddled with rampant manliness. In effect it made me feel just so much more feminine in contrast. I felt my femininity come to the forefront of my mind, when I watched a man shave.
His name was Ian. We had met on the internet, through a dating site. We had the usual first date coffee meet-up, and we easily fell into conversation. I could tell moments after he walked in that I would fuck this man. He was a police officer, of all things, and worked swing shift. He was far too young for me, but he seemed perfectly willing to meet me. I knew perfectly well there wasn't going to be a relationship; he was 31 and I was, well, older than 30. The fact that he worked swing shift was the reason I found myself at his house in the middle of the day on a Wednesday, as I had that day off from work. It was the second time we laid eyes on each other since the coffee date.
He let me in his house while he was finishing up shaving. "I wanted to have a nice, smooth face for you," he said while looking me right in the eyes. He had on jeans but no shirt, and I could see for the first time that he had a tattoo around his bicep. It was a vine with tiny leaves sprouting off from it. I wasn't a fan of tattoos but I suddenly couldn't imagine him without it.
"How do you stay so fit?" I asked him, watching him tip his chin up and drag the razor up his neck, around his Adams' appleβanother very male thing I loved to notice on a man.
"A lot of push-ups," he said. That would explain the biceps and shoulders, I thought. "We have sort of a push-up competition going on at the station right now."
"Let me see you do some," I said. He splashed his face clean with water, toweled off, grabbed my hand and took me to his bedroom. "Here's a kind of push-up we don't do at the station, but it's really, really good for you."
He put his arm around my waist and rolled me onto his king sized bed. I envied his big bed immediately, as I only had a lonesome twin bed. My ex took the big bed when he moved across the country to take a great new job and decided to never come back. I flung my arms above my head, enjoying the very large expanse of bed I could fully stretch out on.
I found myself on my back, laying under him, and he was holding himself up above me in push-up formation. "How many push-ups do you think I can do?" he asked with a lift of one eyebrow.
"I'm going to say about three," I teased. "This bed is awfully soft for push-ups."