Tenderly

            “It’s been a while for me,” said John as he took his shoes off and tossed them to the floor.

            “How long?” asked Cindy.

            Cindy took the seven or eight pillows off the bed and placed them on a hope chest in another corner of the bedroom.

            “A while,” said John.

            John smiled at her as she pulled back the comforter and slid under the covers. She giggled a little with nervous and playful excitement. They had been kissing and groping and teasing each other on her living room couch for the last twenty minutes and John was very excited. She was a really great kisser. Easy to kiss. She seemed to instinctually know which direction to turn her head as they teased each other with their lips. It was so natural and smooth. John felt something inside he hadn’t felt in a very long time. A tingling or spark or something was making his head a little dizzy. It could have been the two bottles of red wine they’d drank too, but he was hoping it was something more.

            John pulled his pants off and dropped them to the floor and crawled into the bed next to Cindy. She wrapped her arms around him as they started to kiss again.

            “I promise I’ll take it easy on you,” said Cindy.

            “Don’t,” said John.

            He gently explored her body as they kissed. He carefully moved his hands down her slender neck, over her shoulder, over the top of her left arm and the side of her stomach. She giggled.

            “Everything okay,” asked John.

            “Yes,” she smiled, “I’m just a little ticklish there.”

            “A little ticklish hm,” teased John and he gently brushed her side with the tips of his fingers and she laughed again.

            John liked her laugh. It was sweet and gentle. It was the laughter he’d always imagined the woman of his dreams would have. He kissed Cindy harder and she responded with passion of her own. Her hands were moving across his body and their legs were slowly becoming intertwined. Their breathing became more intense and John felt the room getting warmer. He moaned slightly as her hand moved across his inner thigh.

            “You like that,” she asked.

            “Mm-hm,” said John as he kissed her along her neck.

            Her breathing became more intense and John’s caressing of her soft skin became more impassioned. She had beautiful soft skin. He wanted to feel it against his hands since her saw her. John took a deep breath and stopping kissing her and left his hands drift across the surface of her body. She moaned a bit too and she kissed John on his neck.

            “It’s been a while for me too,” said Cindy.

            “Are you okay with this,” asked John as he continued to caress her.

            “Oh yes,” said Cindy.

            She looked up at John and kissed him. John saw that she closed her eyes as they kissed and he closed his eyes too. Even with this looming sex in the air and the passion they were about to embark upon all John could think about was getting breakfast with this wonderful woman, maybe lots of breakfasts, for a long time.

            He kissed her back with enthusiasm and gently moved on top of her.