Some nights, some places just seem made for love. You always hear how the time's not right, the music's too loud or the grass is too wet. None of this seemed to apply this night. The Leonid Meteor shower was due and somewhere in the dark skies around Leo the Lion the first sparks were flying. Crash and burn, crash and burn; the first of many streaks of suddenly molten rocks and ice were fizzling in the summer sky. You could almost hear the sparks, you could almost smell the flames.
It was a darn shame that beyond the fenced in walls that made up my backyard's borders the world seemed to be sound asleep. Only a firefly would occasionally compete with the astral showcase. It had taken me weeks to get up the nerve to ask her to come by and visit with me for a change. It had been several futile attempts at seduction later that this night had come to me like a winged messenger from the heavens. And it brought with it a surprise visitor, the very object of my affection had actually deigned to join me at play on my ground, on my terms. It still seems like a dream.
But it was real enough. Margie had knocked on my door at midnight dressed in her trademark white shorts and red T-Shirt. After I rubbed the sleep from my eyes I noticed the basket she was carrying-a wicker basket filled with things I had thought she disdained. There was a bottle of Chardonnay, unopened, and a bottle of scented Kama Sutra Massage oil-cinnamon scented and about half full. A blanket and were those condoms, extra large(!?) that I spied beneath them that filled out the light weight basket?
"Let's get nekkid and watch the meteors." she smiled, no beamed at me. Even in the dark her suntan shone through. Florida's sun worked its wonders in the day time, I hoped I could work some tonight. "Come in, come in," was all I could conjure up in the way of words. My brain was racing but words wouldn't come. She hooked me by the arm instead and pulled me outside. We walked around the house to the back yard, opened the gate and let ourselves in. Out popped the wine bottle, a corkscrew and the blanket. Suitably arranged we lay down on our backs in the privacy of darkness and stared up into the mysteries of space. When I looked over, I noticed the T-shirt being quickly pulled up and over her head and for the first time ever I noticed she wasn't even wearing a bra.