The doorbell rings; its peculiar abrupt crack travels like a jolt down my spine and floods my pussy with tingling wet pleasure. I walk towards the door and I feel the first layer shrouding the undertones of our relationship being peeled away.
Acknowledging to myself that I am looking forward to this encounter; admitting that my mind just screamed the word "pussy" with thoughts of you, of what your touch might entail causing the tingles down there. This in itself is a violation. Or perhaps a revelation; we are more. The more that is now about to be uncloaked.
I feel a thrill....like that of an artist. Revealing to the world at large his art; a sculpture cloaked with a white cloth; the folds of it shrouding the eroticism of the couple locked in a furtive embrace, with identical looks of passionate rapture barely concealed in their closed eyes and open mouths. It is scandalous; like a private moment put out for public display. The eroticism of the situation is palpable. The impersonal eyes devouring the personal ecstasy of two lovers, and the pride of the sculptor who stands there uncloaking the moment with a flourish; owning the moment and its eroticism, owning each and every reaction of the audience. The inescapable thrill...it is that which courses through my veins as slowly, at last, I open the door.
You stand there looking at me. One look at my face and you know something is different; even ominously so. It has always been like this. Words are often an unnecessary encumbrance when it comes to us. We have shared so much. In innocuous touches, barely whispered sighs, in looks across a crowded room where we needed no language but our innate knowledge of the very being of the other.
It used to freak us out often enough; that connection. How could I know without you saying a word, most everything that you felt? How could you know without me ever telling you, my thoughts and innermost desires? How could we share our vulnerabilities, without ever doubting the others strength? We always could. Perhaps, that is why we have been best friends for so long.
Rather, the time period be damned; through so much. We have helped each other shape our values, our ambitions, our emotions, our capacities, our strengths...our very identities. Without ever questioning why it was that matters of such deep regard were a staple for us? Without ever wondering....are we different from other couples, who perhaps do the same for each other but so seldom it is that it happens with such directness, such intensity, such deep awareness of the fact that whatever else it might be; it is not common?
Have we ever wondered if it isn't just uncommon; but perhaps even special? We are best friends...but could it be that perhaps because of lack of existing vocabulary...we never ventured to ask ourselves; are we more? Not best friends, not lovers, not soul mates...each of these is too defining. MORE.
I shudder...as yet another layer is peeled off...getting us closer to what might be the more of us. I know this...for with that one look at my face, with the subtle contracting of my facial muscles...my eyes narrowing, my face lifting, my gaze intent upon yours....you know too that I have crossed that line. The questions have been asked. There's no going back.
I hold you by your hand. The hot crackling energy rippling in between our palms no longer even surprising us...I lead you on into my room. There are no words spoken. Not yet. We still are absorbing the implications of venturing down this path. We could be more...but if we're not....who would we be? Would we still be friends? Yet we know....we have to follow this lure to its ultimate conclusion; whatever that might be.
As you stand looking at me, I move in closer. I am standing right in front of you. So close that the whites of your eyes are blurred. I can't look in to your eyes any more. My breathing is rapid, yet not shallow. I lift my hand and place it gently....my fingers brushing your shirt covered collarbone. Why did I never realize the tips of my fingers are an erogenous zone?
I can feel your heart beat steadily beneath my hand. I am scared...I am losing our connection in the uncertainty of this moment. For the life of me I cannot tell what you are feeling. Could it be anywhere close to this earthshaking sense of impending explosion? Like the world is tilting on its axis...the depths of it rumbling...gearing to explode to the surface? I dare to look up into your eyes. God, did you ever look so intense...like the magnitude of this moment is compressed into your gaze? Slowly it lowers to my quivering lips.
In a random flight of thought I suddenly smile...thinking how ridiculously dramatic it is to be feeling this way! Lips aquiver? Really? I sound like the protagonist of the latest Judith McNaught historical! You smile back. You got the joke. It is as if the humour brought back to life what we share...the comfort of being best friends and the knowledge that it cannot go wrong.
My heart stopped, my gut clenched, every nerve in my body taught as a pulled string; your lips descend on mine. And just stay like that...for a moment stretched into eternity. Then...I feel our lips move. Slowly...so softly...but with just purpose. Your tongue sweeps out to meet my lip. The wetness of you, the softness of your lips against mine, I open my mouth to take you in. It is like tasting heaven. So familiar...that I wonder if we haven't done this before.
Our tongues slide against each other, the suckling pressure of mouth on mouth, the slippery pleasure of lips against lips, the scrape of your teeth...and then you shift into over drive. The pressure is no longer gentle. Our tongues dance together in erotic tandem....broken sighs escape and are swallowed. You pull me in even closer. Your hand is sliding down my side, setting my ribcage on fire. You grab my bottom and thrust against me; almost lifting me onto you. The grinding pressure of your hardness rubbing against my clit...I feel like a slippery mess down there. No longer even aware of my distinct anatomy...I am on fire. The gentleness of your touch, the restraint in your grip, the almost involuntary movement of your pelvis; all in such sharp contrast with each other.
I don't know whether we are animal in our lovemaking or gentle as an old married couple. You stop kissing me and hug me close. Your lips wet and cold against my nape...your breath erratic and warm. You squeeze me tight...and slowly we float down to earth. We stay like that for a minute simply absorbing what has just happened. Apparently...that was a kiss.
I sigh deeply and move away. We are still touching but not quite.
I look at you and ask, "Let me undress you."
"Why?"
I roll my eyes at this doltish question and you sheepishly smile.
"Well, I know why...but, er...are you sure?"
"No, I'm not. But I've got to do this anyway."
You nod, imperceptibly. I move in closer. Just standing there.