A Night to Remember

"DONNA!" Josh bellowed as he scrambled around his bedroom trying to locate the partner of his other dress shoe that had been carelessly thrown someplace in his room after Donna had set out to remove all articles of clothing as quickly as possible when they returned from a romantic night on the town earlier this week.

"I can't find my left shoe, have you seen it?" Josh said as he carefully bent down to check under the bed, trying his best not to wrinkle his outfit that Donna had spent 10 minutes ironing.

"Try behind the door, I think I remember it landing somewhere in that vicinity" Donna called out from the bathroom as she herself was rushing to put the final touches on her appearance for the night.

Josh got up off the floor, shook the lint of his black slacks and pulled back the bedroom door to find his left shoe lying in the corner just like Donna said.

"Hey, I found it! But are you almost done in there? You have been in there for over half an hour. You know the limo will be outside in 5 minutes!" he said as he finished tying his shoes and reached into his dresser top dresser and pulled out a small box and placed it in his coat pocket.

"Joshua, I know we haven't been living together for very long, but 30 minutes is not nearly ample to time for a woman to prepare herself for a gala event. So if you can just hold your horses for a bit, and give me a chance to put my mascara on, and finish curling my hair without burning myself with the extremely hot curling iron, I would appreciate it."

With that Josh immediately went silent as he sat on the bed as he thought to himself it was more or else his fault they were running late. They had returned from the White House around 5:30 that evening and he was feeling a bit jealous that Donna's office was almost twice the size of his. Donna tried to assure him that size was only relative, but what can he say he's a guy and there are some things woman just don't understand. So the minute they got back into their apartment and ditched his secret service detail, he took the opportunity to prove to her how masculine he really is, to alleviate all doubts either of them may have had about it.

Meanwhile, Donna finished putting on her pearl earrings and matching necklace set that Josh had given to her on their last night in Hawaii, which matched perfectly with her slender black dress. She smiled as she was almost tempted to yell back to Josh that the fact they were running late was entirely his fault. She had every intention of getting straight in the shower to get ready for the evening once they arrived home. But Josh had other plans once he got her alone, as he pinned her against the bedroom wall and they proceeded to have the most amazing lovemaking session yet, so she was hardly one to complain. She knew that the passion that was driving Josh stemmed from the fact that her office was bigger than his. Although, earlier she tried to assure him that size doesn't matter, if she was going to continuously get great sex out of his paranoid insecurities who was she to argue with him.

She finished the putting the last layer of lip gloss on and placed the essentials needed for her get through 8 other balls looking this good, in her small purse and walked out of the bathroom with 2 minutes to spare.

"Quit your bellowing, I'm here and ready to go" Donna teased Josh as he looked at her speechless, overtaken by her beauty.

"You look amazing". Josh was all he managed to say as he continued to look at Donna admiring how great she looked with her hair up and wearing a simple black dress which accented her beautiful neckline perfectly and showed off the pearl set he had bought her on their last evening in Hawaii. If it wasn't for the fact that as the respective Chiefs of Staff for the first couple they were expected to make an appearance and that Sam would probably kill him for ditching him, he entertained the thought of blowing off all of the inauguration balls completely and just having an encore performance of his earlier adventures with Donna in bed. But he knew that Donna had been looking forward to this for awhile, for the first time she will be attending a White House function not as his beautiful assistant, but as member of the DC elite herself.

"Thanks, you look pretty sharp yourself" Donna smiled as she walked towards Josh and noticed his bowtie was once again crooked.

"Well… with the exception of this" Donna said as she untied the sloppy bowtie that Josh had attempted to put on by himself and retied it just like she had many times before. "When will you ever learn Josh?"

Josh smiled back, "Probably never, as I love it when you do it for me, secretly it always turned me on." as he leaned in for a passionate kiss.

They continued until they were interrupted by the sound of the horn of the limo and the knock from the secret service agent.

Donna lightly wiped away the slight shade of lipstick now evident on Josh's upper lip as Josh helped Donna into her coat. Just like their last Inauguration event, it was freezing outside and the snow was starting to lightly fall and they walked hand in hand down his stairs to meet the limo driver.

"You can still sit on my lap if you want" Josh whispered seductively in Donna's ear as they climbed into the limo.

Donna just looked at him and grinned, this was definitely going to be night to remember.

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