I want to take it slowly. I want to spend hours in gently building anticipation, little touches through clothing and tiny kisses between regular moments of the day. Grip the insides of my thighs and pull me closer as we snuggle fully dressed, the television burbling in the background. Brush your knuckles along the back of my neck when you pass my chair, keep reminding my skin of the way it feels when you touch elsewhere - but still don’t hurry, even when it’s too much and we fall into bed, even when I’m wriggling against you and pleading. Please don’t rush. Please. Draw your fingertips across the outside of my underwear and make patterns that are only barely there. Stop when I move too much, trying too hard to arch and push into that minute point of contact, withdrawing your hands to stroke the skin of my ribs or the sides of my hips or to move the circling to my chest, infuriatingly wonderfully firmer in your touches as you pinch and kiss me here but won’t give me that feeling any lower. Only maybe do you slip beneath the fabric, teasing along the sides of the seams and smiling at my desperation for them to be removed. And even then, why should you change your pace? Draw your hand along one thigh and across to the other, writing messages I can’t read as you coax my body into falling apart for needing you. Experiment and explore at your leisure, making lazy passes up and down and up and down but not between, whispering commentary about patience and rewards and waiting. When I jump and shift and pull against the sheets, tell me you’ll stop, that if I wanted you to continue I’d be still. Take your time to drive me utterly incoherent. And only then, only when you think I’ve waited long enough, when you’ve teased towards getting your fingers wet too many times to count and never committed to the movement, when I’ve thought you’d finally press against me only to withdraw and return to slowly stroking my legs, only then please be more direct, only then please kiss me like there might not be a tomorrow, only then make the fireworks happen between us and fill every sense with you.









