“Eh…” She answered, opening her eyes and looking into his. The side of her body rested on his chest, her neck on his arm…
“The first kisses…”
She smiled about his stubborn determination to make every single romantic moment count, keeping a mental count of their shared history together.
“Like ten?” She guessed. There couldn’t have been that many.
“Fourteen to be exact,” he answered brushing her hair with his fingers. Everything about the moment felt comfortable, beyond the chaos of the world.
Without giving her any kind of notice, he proceeded to place her body on the bed and caress her lips. Arms stretched out to the side, unable to stay focused on the old plan, Caroline closed her eyes and took in the moment. The fifteenth first kiss for they hadn’t done it in that pose before. She smiled at the ridiculousness of the thought and loved it for the hopelessly romantic gesture that it was.
Soon, he had progressed further south, with the controlled precision of touches and kisses. This was it, Caroline thought. This was the moment she had been waiting for all day. Her body arched and flinched with his touch. She moaned uncontrollably. He didn’t seem like he was in a hurry to get anywhere. Left her bras in place and applied pressure on her belly. A grounding force she felt connected her to a deeper place inside her body. Same progression of kisses and pressure went further down. She spread her legs wide open to welcome all that she imagined was on the way.
Was he going to take off her panties? Yes? No? She couldn’t tell. The most decent indecent erotic exploration as he rearranged his body with his right leg straddling over her body while he bent his left leg and sat facing away from her.
What was going on? She rested her own left leg on his and instinctively pulled her feet together as she split her knees apart in sync with his gentle guidance. The anticipation was killing her. Any other man would have already been on top of her and doing the deed. Jack here was tenderly caressing her body with a Zen-like calmness. He pried her panties to the side while leaving the palm of his hand on her pubic bone. She felt connected to him.
The left hand gradually proceeded to find its way in between her legs and beneath her ass. Fingers spread apart and supporting the cheeks while his thumb sat tantalizingly close to her wet pussy. She pressed her body downward in the hope of something slipping inside of her. He kept the thump close but away. With the other hand, he put his index finger on her clit. Hardened by an intensifying craving. The gentlest of touches sent her tremors down her spine.
All it took before the most intense orgasm and pleasure Caroline had ever experienced was to be braced by the palm of his hand against her lower abs while his index finger tenderly massaged the sides of her clit in tight and slow motion with his thumb sitting at the gates with the promise of entry any minute. The intensity of the pleasure surprised her. It felt as if he was bringing her climax on command and keeping her floating in blissful state endlessly. Again and again. All with a touch of a finger and movement no more than a fraction of an inch. She lost count of how many times he had lifted and grounded her body.
Minutes went by in the cascading fountains of pleasure. Left speechless and spent, she collapsed on the bed with all the resistance of her body extracted out of her. She opened her eyes to find he was now lying next to her, his arm under her head and cuddling her tightly into his body.
“Who are you?” She said to him, with a defeated gaze of complete love.
“Your prince in shining armor,” he answered as he kissed her on her forehead.
“Seriously, you are so different from every guy I have ever known or thought existed in the world.”
“There is more you will learn about me. Soon enough.”
“Like what? I can’t hold out on the promise that all my preconceived notions won’t be shattered one at a time…”
“Like, I love you. That I have loved you from afar… But…”
“Oh god! Are you serious? I thought I was the one crazy in love!”
“That is for sure. No doubt you are crazy to pursue me… Then, it gave me a reason to hope…”
Caroline was speechless. Was he serious? Then everything made sense at once. Why he was reticent. Still, though…
“You were going to leave without telling me if I hadn’t asked you to come with me, right?”
“I didn’t want to burden you.”
“With your profession of eternal love for me?” Caroline was the one to initiate a kiss this time. The first kisses have exceeded twenty and were rapidly accumulating.
“Is that how a man who professes love gets treated these days?”
“I am so totally unprepared for this. You have no idea how I have been trying so hard to devise a plan… Falling over myself trying to make an impression…”
“You sure have made an impression. I had looked at all these photos of you, but that morning when you were lying down on the ground, I knew I have found the one. I just knew. It took so much resolve not to kiss you…”
Caroline was again rendered speechless. There was no defense again this abundance of love and affection.
“The reason I didn’t want to say anything…” Jack slowed down. “Seeing you tonight, I didn’t want to just leave. I didn’t want you to think I am this jerk who didn’t care about you.”
“That I would believe the rumors?”
