I feed you my dessert. Rest my hand on your knee under the table, just like when we were 15 and you insisted on hiding our non-relationship from all our friends. I let you lead on the dance floor and pick the songs we should sit down for. I always needed you to lead me.
But the night seems so short. And now they're making us leave. You're disappointed. Until you remember the reservation. I work at a hotel and secured a room at a place nearby, off the highway. It's not far from here. Booked, paid for, done. We just need to arrive. Show up. Alone.
We arrive in a mild frenzy. Well, you do. You inadvertently keep me calm, because you are so high energy. Chaos has a reverse effect on me. When those around me are hectic, it often keeps me level headed. So, when you get excited, as you normally do in these situations, it keeps me cool. I check in without you to keep things easy and low-key. I don't need you bouncing around while I sign the registration card, and neither does the guy working the front desk.
You follow me to our door. Now I'm leading. Not surprisingly, you've never checked into a hotel room before. At least, not on your own. I guess neither have I. But I'm comfortable in this situation because I work in the environment. I'm acting like I'm in charge. Fake it 'til you make it, I guess.
That's the theme of the evening.
I open the door with the keycard and step inside first. You watch the back of my body as I enter the dark hotel room, a room we get to share for the night.
I want to share this bed with you. No interruptions. For as long as we want, as long as we can. That's what tonight is for.
You're good at making decisions. You are not afraid. At least, you are not afraid of me. So you close the door behind us. I turn at the sound of the door clicking shut to find you closer than I expected. You move quickly.
I'm not afraid of you, either.
Even you didn't expect this. But, your natural inclination- now that we're alone- is to immediately put your hands on me. You slip your arms around my body, one hand on my back, the other sliding down the curves of the rear of my body. You've always liked my backside. You feel my hands on your face, then your neck, then one of my arms reaches inside your jacket.
You haven't kissed me in months. You didn't even kiss me earlier. Not when you picked me up. Not in the car. Not on the dance floor. Not even when we were alone in a dark corner or up in the mezzanine.
I know. There were too many people around. It was too public. This, now, is just for us.
I feel your mouth on mine, and I'm home.
The thick beading on my dress is suddenly a massive problem. You touch me but can't feel my body. Very unfair.
I make a move to remove your jacket, and you shrug it off, tossing it away. You break our kiss to look down at my dress and say, "Does this come off that easily?"
"Do you want it to?" I ask you. I am never one to give you an easy answer, am I?
My strapless, beaded dress has a simple zipper and eye hook in the back. It will only take a few seconds to undo, and then the weight of the dress will allow it to, more or less, fall off my body. I am not wearing a bra. The dress is so well structured, I didn't need to wear anything else.
I reach behind me to undo the hook, so you aren't confused by it. I turn around so you can see the zipper. "Go ahead," I tell you. I want to let you do it. I want to let you undress me. Please.
I feel your delicate, beautiful fingers run along the skin on my back as you briefly fiddle with the tiny zipper at the top of the dress. You hold the fabric taut as you slide it down, and you seem very aware it is uncasing me. It's such a thick, heavy dress. You want to see it on the floor.
Just as you realize the zipper has reached the end of its track, several things happen all at once. You see the top of my underwear. Simple white fabric, running across my skin. It looks so small. This makes your eyes trail up my bare back, instinctively looking for my bra. But there isn't one. Bra-less? Bra-less. Nothing covering my breasts? You didn't expect that.
You always assume panties come with a bra. Don't they?
Maybe not.
Then, before you can process these two things- the visual of my underwear and the realization I am not wearing a bra- the dress suddenly begins to slide down my hips. The weight of it takes it down. In a soft
whoosh
, the fabric and beading falls into a pile around my feet. Before you or I are really prepared, I am left mostly bare in front of you, still facing away.
I glance at you over my shoulder, giving you a once-over. "That's just unfair," I tell you. I want you to catch up.
I'm sure you won't argue much. I wouldn't want you to. Not anymore.
From behind me, before you can stop yourself, I feel your hands on my hips. You'd rather pull my nearly naked body into yours before taking your own clothes off. You slide a few fingers under the strings of my underwear before beginning to migrate to my breasts.
I can't take your clothes anymore. I have to turn around. As I do, our mouths instinctively find each other. But kissing you is not my main priority, believe it or not. My fingers fumble with your shirt buttons. What are these? Tux buttons? Are those different than regular shirt buttons? And they say girls' clothes are complicated.
I can hear you teasing me. "Do you want help?"
"Don't get arrogant," I volley back at you. I feel you smile at me, because you know arrogance is foundational to who you are. It's what you're made of, and it's why I love you.
You can be arrogant because I want it. I want you. More than you. I want everything.
Your tongue is back inside my mouth. My hands are inside your shirt, finally open for our skin to make contact. You lift my feet off the ground so I can kick my dress aside. Your belt rattles in my hands as I undo it and toss it away with my dress and shoes. The moment your pants button and zipper are undone by my hand, I feel something change between us. Now, we're here. We've never been here before.
I've never held you like this.
Well, yes, I have touched you before, and you've touched me. Yes, I have caused you to climax. My hand has been down your pants. We have even been totally naked with each other. More than once.
But in those moments, did you ever feel totally alone with me? Did it feel private? With our friends always around, or sneaking in and out of our houses, were we ever just together? Truly?
This is it.
I feel you exhale into my done-up hair before breathing in again. I run my left hand along the back of your neck and reignite our kiss. My right hand begins to explore further inside of your remaining clothes, and your body both tenses and relaxes in a way only you can.
"Let me taste you," you tell me. It almost sounds like a demand. You seem hungry, curious, and I wouldn't dare tell you no. Your tone is a purr, a plea, but at the same time an order.
"Please," I start to beg. I would consider crawling across broken glass to have you touch me.