I am driving back to my apartment, deep in thought, after a week-long vacation in Italy. The time there was a wonderful distraction from my realities. It is late in my life. I need to face and attack some remaining issues head-on...before they attack me! My hand moves of its own accord to rest, palm up, near your leg. You place your palm on mine and our fingers interlace. My heart steadies, and I feel calm and capable.
"I missed you, honey."
You are my rock. I made a lot of progress over the last few years. Balance and joy began to have meaning for me. Yet it was not until I found you that I truly began to feel what love could do. You have surpassed any and all fantasies about love that I ever conjured up. Feeling lost and alone ended the very first time you took my hand in yours. Your thigh is warm. The heat dissipates as you raise my wrist to your lips, and place a gentle kiss there. I can forgive you for momentarily disrupting my mood.
"We agreed to save ourselves over the past week and celebrate tonight. I waited, but can wait no longer. Did you wait, too?"
You know I did! I just had a thought of us together again, and it spreads a smile on me from ear to ear. The highway is not crowded. You look around and settle your warm tongue on my neck, licking upward toward my right ear. You know what this does to me! My hand is now free to grab the wheel again, and I do so as the car wiggles a little out of its lane.
"Just drive us home, baby...and let me drive you there my way!"
I like to drive with arms fully outstretched - seat as far back as it will go. Your tongue curls up into my inner ear; and I have all I can do to concentrate on the... The feeling of your fingers tracing my bulge makes me grip the wheel just a little tighter now. I know what comes next and I love it.
"Better hug the right lane, sweetie...this is going to get intense!" You barely whisper that after popping your tongue out from my ear hole.
