I snuggle into her anonymous embrace a little tighter, aiming my mouth for her ear, I come very close to brushing my lips on the exposed skin on the side of her neck. “What’s your name?”

“Does it matter?” Her tone isn’t dismissive. It merely tells me she’d prefer not to say.

I lean up, taking myself far enough away from her that I can see her face and she can see my smile. “Not if you don’t want it to. I’m just trying to be friendly.” The party, with its pointy elbows and noise, has mostly moved on from around us. We could just sit here on the couch and talk.

“I wish you would just get inside of me,” she whispers across the dimly lit hotel hallway. The ice machine humming behind her.

It is so casual, so quick, and so unexpected that I have to check if I heard right. “Excuse me?” After all, we had only barely exchanged glances.

“Oh. Um… never mind. I thought you were… you’re clearly not interested.” Her face flushes and she turns to go.

I want to take you on a date–a walk down the riverwalk at night. I want to hold hands and find benches to make out on. I want you to forget that we’re in public for a moment and almost run your fingers up my skirt. I want to hold the back of your neck as we kiss, feeling you relax into me. I want to get worked up and whisper in your ear, “would you like to come back to my place?”

Would you ask for more if I pushed your face between my thighs? If I held it there as I thrust, sliding against your lips, your cheek… Maybe your tongue? I want to use you, to get my wetness all over your face, to be finally, gloriously sated.

keep me here. With your hands, Your mouth. Make it hard for me to get out of bed. Hard to think. Become my world, If just for a moment

“Oh hi there, cutie.” The fingers of my left hand grip your short hair tight.

You smile wide. You love it when I’m rough with you. “Hello, goddess.”

I twist my hand, pushing your head all the way to the right, until your body follows and you are facing away from me. “That’s right. Lean against the wall.”

You put your palms up, and hold your weight against the wall.

My left hand fumbles at your side. The fabric of your crop top under my index finger and the curve of your waist guides the rest of my hand. My thumb makes slow, awkward arcs along your lowest rib.

I feel like I’m more nervous than I should be. I know what I’m doing; I should be calm, confident. I shut my eyes and take a breath in. The butterflies in my stomach refuse to calm down, but that’s okay. I’ll survive, but I need to relax if this is going to be fun.

My hand presses against their collarbone, pushing them backward into the headrest. Our eyes lock together. The lights of a car going down the street next to us illuminate their face perfectly, so I can see the shy curl of their lip, the contained enthusiasm.

I smile, letting my own eagerness bubble to the surface. This is starting to be a lot of fun.

They respond by knitting up their eyebrows and begging me wordlessly to keep kissing them.

You undress hurriedly, trying to shed the layers as fast as possible.

I lean back onto my heels, grinning and watching you as you reveal more and more of yourself to me.

In your enthusiasm, you’ve left your clothes piled at your feet in a disorganized mound.

I can understand. If I had been stopped so close to coming, I’d be eager to get started again as well. I toss the hitachi onto the bed and reach out, placing my hands firmly on your hips. I look you in the eyes.

“You want me to be in charge?” The confidence is dripping from my question. Of course you do.

“Yes, miss.” You’re nodding enthusiastically.

A grin spreads across my face and I raise one eyebrow as I scan your body, your face. I worry for a second that you’re taking my silence as some kind of criticism, but I can tell by the way that you take half a step back and press your palms into your jeans that you’re just nervous—maybe even a little bit scared. My expression must look like some kind of predatory hunger.