Tease

Sometimes moments are frozen in time, and you know you’ll remember forever.

The whole afternoon was like that, filled with images, sensations, sounds, scents so vivid that they seemed to sear the air around them, flashes and waves of pleasure that transcended time and everyday life, that took them both to a place where no one else and nowhere else existed, only them, only now.

Only now she heard him say, Get on your stomach, pull your right knee up.

Yes. Like that.

She did as she was told. Then he told her to put a pillow under her hips.

Perfect, he said. Just perfect. Look at that.

She closed her eyes. She felt his soft lips kissing the back of her knee, a sensitive section of skin, and the scrape of his whisker stubble almost made her giggle but she gasped into the pillow instead when he licked with just the tip of his tongue up her left thigh while the tips of his fingers traced up the right.

She shivered. Read more »

We’ve been friends for 10 years. Our relationship had always been strictly platonic. Maybe we just never had the chance – we were never single at the same time. But it wasn’t something either of us were hung up on.

Summer was just starting, just getting to the point where the weather was consistently warm. I made plans to ride my bike to her apartment. It was an adventure that would take the better part of a day, so I was going to spend the night. Nothing unusual. We’d done things like this before.

I asked to shower when I arrived, and she already had towels set out for me. We decided to get some take out and two bottles of wine. The days were long, and the sun was setting as we finished dinner and the first bottle. We walked on a nearby trail, just catching up. She told me about one of our mutual friends who was flirting with her, how they had been on a walk. He asked to hold her hand, and it made her uncomfortable. She asked to hold my hand, and I didn’t think much of it. There’s comfort in a friendship with good boundaries. Read more »