It started several years ago, a face to face meeting, after an encounter in an on-line group. They had agreed some, they had sparred some, but they had a mutual respect for the other's opinion.
Gwen would recall knocking on the door of his hotel room and seeing him, wearing just a pair of slacks. She was sure he had heard the sharp intake of her breath as she drank in his lean, wiry frame with her eyes. Her heart felt like it was going to jump through her skin it was beating so hard.
But she wasn't alone. She had her current companion with her, so she had to settle with giving Lance a hello hug. This was nothing unusual for her, so her current companion thought nothing of it. What she had wanted to do was wrap her arms around Lance, let them move from his shoulders, down his back, slide her hands into his back pockets, pull him to her and rub herself against his crotch to feel him get hard.
Instead she just held him a little tighter than she should, a little longer than appropriate, but damn it felt so good, she couldn't help herself.
A few days later he was back home, and she was left thinking about him.
Time passed and they continued to talk, sometimes on the phone, on-line, and once she actually plucked up the nerve to say she had some very sexual thoughts about him, but it evoked no response. She pretty much was resigned to the fact that this older, worldlier, sexy man just didn't want her in the way she wanted him. But she did think about him.
She could picture his short , dark hair. The neatly trimmed mustache and beard that she had imagined tickling the inside of her thighs more than once. She could see his golden eyes framed by long, black lashes. His smile always made her smile.
And now he was going to be in town again. She had suggested going to the movies when he had a chance to be up her way again, but given his lack of response when she had expressed her interest in him , she didn't give it much thought.
She had started to see someone new, although it was not going well.
She was surprised when Lance called and asked her what movie they were going to see.
What Lance didn't know was that Gwen was getting dumped by her latest "friend". He cared, but he was working out things with a past relationship, instead, was what J.D. had said. He claimed he was falling in love with her, but J.D. insisted he had to stop things where they were. Gwen was crushed. More accurately, her ego was crushed.
When Lance arrived to pick her up for the movies, Gwen was a bit quiet. Before she knew what she was doing she blurted out everything that had happened to her that day. She cried some on his shoulder. He sang to her , soothing her, calming her.
During this time, those feelings she had for Lance, suppressed for quite some time, came rising to the surface. She had to move away as she felt herself becoming aroused by his closeness, something he didn't reciprocate, she knew, because he didn't respond to her confession of being attracted to him.
They arrived at the theater, and it seemed rather apt to her that it was raining. She couldn't help but wonder what else could go wrong? Being rather unceremoniously dumped, on line no less, being with a man she found wildly attractive that had no such feelings for her, and it was raining.
Gwen had figured this would be a dutch treat movie as Lance was nothing more than a friend, but Lance wouldn't take her money as he ordered the 2 tickets needed to get into the theater. She was very surprised at this chivalrous gesture and thought it was out of pity. She didn't like that idea, so she decided to believe it was just his nature to be a gentleman.
When he let her pick out mini chocolate ice cream drops from the snack bar, Gwen was already forgetting about J.D. They had gotten close rather quickly, but J.D. had been pulling away, and she hadn't invested herself emotionally as much as she might have, recognizing the warning signals. Besides, Gwen was happy to be linking her arm with Lance's as they walked along in perfect step.
Gwen let Lance pick their seats, and was rather glad when he picked the very middle of the last row, right under the movie projector with Gwen sitting to Lance's left. It's not like they didn't have plenty of seats to choose from, the theater was rather empty, even as the lights dimmed.
During the previews, she had shared the ice cream drops with Lance. She fed him carefully. Gwen noticed Lance's playfulness with this, trying to nibble at her fingers, and really was not sure how to take this. She felt herself becoming aroused again and needed to stop that. One rejection a day was enough for her, and her feelings for J.D. were NOTHING compared to the eruption of emotion she was feeling towards Lance.
As the feature started they shifted in their adjoining seats, making themselves comfortable, keeping the arm that could separate their seats up. Gwen was very conscious of their shoulders and arms touching, his hard thigh next to hers. In an effort to mask her heavier breathing , something she thought was painfully obvious, she shifted again. Gwen moved so her back was against Lance's shoulder, stretching her long legs out on the seats to her left. No one was going to be using them. It wasn't long after this when Lance moved. He turned sideways in his seat, moving his left leg so it was now along side Gwen, as he pulled her into his chest and rested his chin on her right shoulder as they continued to watch the movie. Gwen was very aware of Lance, though. She felt her breathing grow heavier as he put his arms around her waist pulling her closer to him.
"Focus on the film", she told herself, but she wanted oh so much more from this man. She couldn't believe that even if it were only out of pity , she was this close to the man she longed for since she first met him, if not before.
She swallowed the gasp trying to escape her when she felt his lips on her shoulder. "More , please" was what Gwen was thinking. She involuntarily shivered when she felt him kiss her exposed neck, and felt just the gentlest touch of his moist tongue. Lance continued to tease Gwen. She wasn't sure what his motivation was, but with all she was feeling both emotionally and physically, she was beyond caring.