I have so many thoughts running through my head I can't sleep. I can't begin to tell you how much I crave you. I think about what it will be like when you open your hotel door and I get to see you for the first time. I imagine saying, "Good morning, handsome." Bravery brought me there but the butterflies in my stomach are fluttering around - crashing against the inside of me, begging to be released.
"Good morning, Katie Jo." I can already see your smile. Since you are always very quick on the compliments I'm sure you will say something. But I don't want to hear them. I am too needy. I want everything and all at once. I want your lips on mine, I want to FEEL the story since its morning. I still hope you will read to me before bed that night, but I need to feel absolutely everything. So I stop your string of compliments by placing my finger tips on your lips.
"Thank you for coming to visit me. But shhhh...I want to see you. Feel you. Taste you. We'll talk later, but I need you now. I'm invoking my right to clinginess, neediness now. Please kiss me."
And you do. We are still standing in the doorway and I start to remember what it is like to be kissed. I had forgotten. We take turns exploring each other's mouth. I feel sexy. I feel alive. I never want to stop.
I'm not sure who breaks away first and how we move away from the doorway, but we do. I can't stop touching you. I do remember what its like to be a teenager again. It took awhile, but it's those damn butterflies. And a tightening in the chest. And everything is extra sensitive. I look down and my left hand is holding your right as you lead me a little further into the room. We are at the edge of the bed and you turn around and kiss me again. I wrap my arms around you and your hands find my hair and pull me in deeper.
My nails dig slightly into your back. I try to will them to relax, but I'm having a difficult time thinking. Sometime later, an hour? A minute? A lifetime? A second? I lost the ability of time...you sit on the bed an pull me down with you. I slip. Its awkward. I laugh.
You chuckle softly but our eyes meet and I forgot what I was doing. I can't move and I can't sit still. The moment is perfect. The moment isn't enough. You lay me down on the bed and tell me not to move. You grab your camera so you can capture just this moment. Its perfect. I get shy. You only take one quick picture then you tell me not to move.