To open one's eye is much like turning on a light, you go from a dim view to one where everything makes sense, and that realization often shakes us to our core. Much like, how could I have not seen it before.
That is exactly how I found myself looking at James. He was someone I knew from work, a rather cute man, who always flirted with all of the girls. James is quite tall, and of course a very warm man. He always appears rather open, but I myself believe he keeps much hidden inside him. Perhaps he keeps all his secrets locked away so deeply that he himself isn't sure anymore what they are.
Anyhow, I digress here. I find that lately I'm often lost in thoughts of him, just normal curiosity I suppose. Yet he has managed to slip into my dreams, or is it my fantasy's? I really can't say for sure just yet. He slips his warm arms around me in a normal welcome and I find myself pulled to him. I find myself wondering does he know what I have been dreaming? Is he aware of what has been happening this last month. How could he? That is just silly I tell myself. Yet he say's things that only happen in my dreams, makes small remarks that No one except someone who actually knew my dreams could know.
"Hi James, how are things for you tonight?"
"Well, Hello Sue" he whispers almost seductively.
I giggle and blush, Its almost as if we share this secret. "I'm doing well, but will be better in a few hours when My shift is over"
James shifts slightly to slip his arm around me for a hug, and bends in to whisper in my ear. "I have become accustomed to my dreams lately, care to share one with me?"
I just giggle, "Now, James I am not sure you could handle my dreams" I reply with a wink.
James just smiles that knowing smile and clears his throat. "Oh, I have been meaning to ask you, didn't you tell me that you collected Dragons?"
"Why, Yes I do, nice of you to recall that"
James smiled slyly and said "I have pictured your room in my mind and I see all of these Dragons adorning your room"
I chuckle nervously because they do actually!
James just continued on, "I imagine you, laying on your bed, in a short silky black nighty, with red roses on the breast and hem, reading a book about Dragons, while you're surrounded by all sorts of Dragon figurines. A rose smelling candle burning beside your bed on your night stand. I imagine your long red hair falling loosely around your shoulders. The way you snuggle into the pillows on your bed when you read. The way your legs slip across each other as you get to the parts in the story which excite you. That sparkle in your eyes which shows excitement about what your reading or perhaps at what your thinking or day dreaming about."
I look at him with a puzzled almost shocked look upon my face, not sure what to say. My mind whirls about with knowing that is exactly right down to the lit candle what I was doing last evening. I was even wearing that same nighty. With a slightly nervous chuckle I tell James, "Well, darlin if I didn't know better I would think you had been peeping in my bedroom window." He gives the slyest smile I have seen yet.
"Perhaps I have." James whispers