After the pool, I called him. Had to. We planned to meet but the times never fit, the locations never matched, then I thought of the woodlands nearby, asked him if he fancied taking a risk.
I brought a dog lead with me, thinking if anyone saw us, I could say we were looking for a dog. Even as I thought it, I found myself picturing the lead around my neck, myself on my knees, serving him. Tasting him again. Jesus. It had been over a week since the pool, and none of it had faded. The taste. The smell. The raw nature of everything that had happened, that had unfolded. On my knees like a slut. (oh wow). I remembered seeing the imprints of the tiles on my knees. I remembered tasting him all the way home. Salty. Sticky. So warm. A new flavour. Like a new tone added to the texture of life itself. So wrong it was perfectly right. I'd felt new all the way home. I was different. Exciting. More. Everything else was so dull, so bland. My heart hadn't raced since. Nothing else was interesting, nothing made the butterflies in my stomach wake up. I had jerked off, replaying every second, but it was one dimensional. No danger. No thrill. No heat. I wanted more, but I barely understood what that meant.
Jesus. What did I want him to do to me? That question, its unresolved nature, its abandon, its freedom, exhilarated me. With each step the excitement increased. It felt like anything could happen. I was eager to lose control, which was frightening, exhilarating. The butterflies were back. Afraid, abandoned, giddy. It was an astonishing thing to know that I wouldn't hesitate to drop to my knees to him, that I wanted him to see how eager to please I was.
He was waiting in the car park. I nodded at him, and he walked ahead of me. We didn't speak, didn't exchange knowing looks. We just waited. I followed him deep into the woods. All around us the world went soft, dim, quiet. Just layers of green, waves receding.
I was daydreaming, my mind was overwhelmed. When I looked at him again he had stopped. He was staring at me. "Okay?"
I looked around. Did he mean the location? Did he want to know how I felt? Did he care? I just nodded. "I haven't stopped thinking about it," I said, I had to fill the silence. He just nodded as well. He was nervous, I realised. He wasn't a mind reader, he didn't know what I wanted, what I needed. I showed him the dog lead. I'd mentioned it, right? He wouldn't think I was daft. He just smirked. I stepped closer to him, I looked around, we were totally alone. God. What if someone came by? Heard?
"Get down," he said.
My gaze darted back to him. In one second the world beyond died. There was nothing real but him. Me. Us. "On my knees?"
"No," his voice was different, husky, "hands and knees."
My mind was blank for a second, I was already getting in the position, dutifully, when my mind caught up. "Take it all off," he added. Oh. Oh wow. He wanted to fuck me, maybe? I'd thought about it, but I couldn't imagine it. I tried to imagine him inside me. I was afraid it would hurt. But just the thought of him pumping into me, hands on my hips, like I had done to girls before me- now I was the one getting the pleasure I had worked to give them.