OOC: I have been gone for quite a while. Is there a warm female out there who would like to be adored?
IC: The night was more beautiful than I had thought. Stepping out onto the small balcony, I could not help but be overwhelmed by the scent of honeysuckle wafting up on the rising air currents from the thick bushes below. The sun had disappeared behind purple mounds throw up eons ago beyond the shore of the lake which lay just to the west of the house. I hesitated, not wanting to disturb the night, as if the entire aura of sensuality that encroaching darkness seems to tease us with, would shatter and fall to the ground in tiny shards of regret. I leaned, just for a second, against the frame of the French doors and sipped the champagne I had lifted from a passing waiter’s tray. I could almost hear the effervescence in the sparkling wine rush to my head in whirling patterns of approaching ecstasy. It was as if the wine had a purpose tonight – push him over the edge; force him to understand he is alive and a man and in need. I felt a stirring that had not been present for some time. It could not be the wine; I had had only a few sips.
At that very moment, I realized the scent I had identified as honeysuckle was not that at all. True, there were vines below me; but the scent I detected was much lighter than the cloying bouquet of the yellow and white blossoms. The scent was lighter, more flirtatious than aromatic, really. I allowed my senses to clear a bit and drew in a rather deep breath and tasted the air around me, searching for the source.
And there she was. Standing with her back to me, leaning on the cement balustrade, and looking off into the distance was a woman. And from my angle, she was quite a woman to behold. The white sheath she wore had ridden up just a bit in the back as she leaned forward and I could see a magnificently shaped pair of ankles just above rather amply sized feet. Her shoes were beside her, one on its side, as she had stepped out of them to feel the cool surface of the concrete balcony floor. One arm supported her on the rail and the other waved in the air, a half-empty glass of champagne dangling from fingertips, swaying back and forth as if in time to a silent melody dancing in her head.
But a second later, I heard it myself. Where was the music coming from? There was no orchestra at the party inside? Yet I could hear it plainly. Soft, sweet and so very soothing. My reaction was immediate. I felt a small chill creep across the backs of my arms and the hair on my neck twitched and rose to stand on end. But what is all the more surprising, I felt a definite stir in the depths of my equipment. There had not been such a feeling for a very long time.
I could not help but gaze at her and wonder if it was her humming that I was hearing. I took two slow, deliberate steps in her direction and murmured, “My dear, is the evening that lovely that you reward it with a lullaby?” She twitched and started as if I had clapped my hands loudly or as if she had heard a thunderclap. The champagne glass slipped from her fingers and dropped two stories down to the lawn below. I could hear it fall to earth with a soft thump, not breaking on the thick green carpet of lawn below. She whirled to face me and the music in my head stopped immediately. Her eyes took in my countenance: older, bearded, shiny bald, dark eyes, 6’ even, Armani tuxedo, and a nearly fresh glass of champagne in one hand.
Her first action was to reach for and relieve me of the glass and to toss it back with one delicate swish in her mouth.
IC: The night was more beautiful than I had thought. Stepping out onto the small balcony, I could not help but be overwhelmed by the scent of honeysuckle wafting up on the rising air currents from the thick bushes below. The sun had disappeared behind purple mounds throw up eons ago beyond the shore of the lake which lay just to the west of the house. I hesitated, not wanting to disturb the night, as if the entire aura of sensuality that encroaching darkness seems to tease us with, would shatter and fall to the ground in tiny shards of regret. I leaned, just for a second, against the frame of the French doors and sipped the champagne I had lifted from a passing waiter’s tray. I could almost hear the effervescence in the sparkling wine rush to my head in whirling patterns of approaching ecstasy. It was as if the wine had a purpose tonight – push him over the edge; force him to understand he is alive and a man and in need. I felt a stirring that had not been present for some time. It could not be the wine; I had had only a few sips.
At that very moment, I realized the scent I had identified as honeysuckle was not that at all. True, there were vines below me; but the scent I detected was much lighter than the cloying bouquet of the yellow and white blossoms. The scent was lighter, more flirtatious than aromatic, really. I allowed my senses to clear a bit and drew in a rather deep breath and tasted the air around me, searching for the source.
And there she was. Standing with her back to me, leaning on the cement balustrade, and looking off into the distance was a woman. And from my angle, she was quite a woman to behold. The white sheath she wore had ridden up just a bit in the back as she leaned forward and I could see a magnificently shaped pair of ankles just above rather amply sized feet. Her shoes were beside her, one on its side, as she had stepped out of them to feel the cool surface of the concrete balcony floor. One arm supported her on the rail and the other waved in the air, a half-empty glass of champagne dangling from fingertips, swaying back and forth as if in time to a silent melody dancing in her head.
But a second later, I heard it myself. Where was the music coming from? There was no orchestra at the party inside? Yet I could hear it plainly. Soft, sweet and so very soothing. My reaction was immediate. I felt a small chill creep across the backs of my arms and the hair on my neck twitched and rose to stand on end. But what is all the more surprising, I felt a definite stir in the depths of my equipment. There had not been such a feeling for a very long time.
I could not help but gaze at her and wonder if it was her humming that I was hearing. I took two slow, deliberate steps in her direction and murmured, “My dear, is the evening that lovely that you reward it with a lullaby?” She twitched and started as if I had clapped my hands loudly or as if she had heard a thunderclap. The champagne glass slipped from her fingers and dropped two stories down to the lawn below. I could hear it fall to earth with a soft thump, not breaking on the thick green carpet of lawn below. She whirled to face me and the music in my head stopped immediately. Her eyes took in my countenance: older, bearded, shiny bald, dark eyes, 6’ even, Armani tuxedo, and a nearly fresh glass of champagne in one hand.
Her first action was to reach for and relieve me of the glass and to toss it back with one delicate swish in her mouth.