All for You

Title: All for You

Name: Joy

Email: SleepingBeauty2@ziplip.com

Rating: PG-13

I reach across the bed and my Max is gone. I shouldn't expect her to be beside me… I know she hardly sleeps and yet I wish she were here with me. There is a note on my nightstand.

Gone for a run. Be back soon.

Love,

Max

Wow… Max being thoughtful. Who'd have thought it? I guess I'll get up and face the day. She laid out a clean pair of boxers for me…I guess the 'naked in chair' conversation actually worked. She does listen after all. What am I thinking? Of course she listens.

Alright… Where's my journal? I'm gonna copy my newest poem for Max onto that parchment paper I got. Here we go…

I'm sure Max will love that. What shall I compare her to? A summer's day… No that's cheesy… How about 'Did my heart love till now? Forswear its sight! For I never saw true beauty till this night' or 'Oh no it is an ever fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken.' Why did Shakespeare know how to write of love so well? In one play, he express so much about falling in love hard and fast. If I were to lose Max, I'd be like Romeo on his knees screaming her name defying the stars & all the life around him. I think it would drive me mad. Would I kill myself? I considered it before we were together… I don't know. What I know for certain is I will never let her go. I will always come for her… I'll not be separated from my love.

I turn the page in my journal only to find her handwriting… She's written something in my journal… I'm thinking we need to discuss privacy… Awh… Now I can't be mad. She did something I have the right to be mad over and now I'm just a pile of mush… She found her half in my heart. I'm a huge sap… It's very hard to be manly now, when all I really want to do is worship her.

The door just opened and unfortunately it's Bling. "GO AWAY!" I fuss.

"Nice to see you too… Why do I have to leave? Is Max in the bedroom or something?" he asks with an eyebrow raised.

"No… but she'll be coming back from her run and I don't want you here!" I snap. I really just want to bundle her back into bed for the day.

"Have plans for this morning?"

"Bling, if you don't get out of here in twenty seconds, you're fired!" I try to drive home the point.

He looks at me angrily. "I will be back after lunch to do your exercises… call me if that isn't enough time… You really need to be working your leg muscles not just your lower back," he said with a straight face.

My face is completely red, I'm sure. "How do you know that we have been doing any such thing?" I demand. What am I thinking? Of course Bling can tell. He has been over here almost every day for months… It would be hard to miss even by the sound of my voice, I imagine.

Bling cocks his head and looks at me like I'm nuts, "First of all you're a moron and second of all you are only wearing boxers. It was hard to miss your intension, rolling towards me yelling 'Go Away.' I made the assumption that it wasn't the first time because you were planning on greeting Max with that sight and even you aren't so inept at women to think that's a good come on."

Now I'm even redder. "I'm sorry. I'll exercise this afternoon…"

He smiles, "I'll see ya later… Congratulations man! I'm glad you guys finally admitted how you feel about each other." He left the apartment just as Max was getting off the elevator. They smile at each other. Max is turning a little pink.

"Hey babe. Do your exercises while I was gone?" she says kissing me softly. She apparently doesn't notice what even Bling caught.

"No he's coming back later this afternoon."

"Why?" she says sweetly downing a bunch of orange juice. I pull her toward me gently, seating her in my lap. "OH!!! I see!" she reacts quickly as I laugh. "But I'm all sweaty."

"So… I was hoping to get you to that state anyway," I say with my devilish grin.

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I'm holding my love in my arms kissing her gently, reverently. "Max?"

"Hum?"

"Follow me," I whisper to her. I climb into my chair.

"How bout the 'naked in chair' thing we discussed earlier?" she asks.

"It's a few feet…" I explain. She follows into the bathroom as I run the tub. I slide in and beckon her to follow. I wash her whole body in silence, planting small kisses all over her. I treat her to a lathered a bath sponge with lavender body wash. I move her slowly so I can wash her hair. I want her to feel totally pampered and doted on.

We lay in the steamy bath and I see all signs of stress lift from my sweetness. "That was a first," she whispered over her shoulder to me. "That felt wonderful."

"I'm glad you liked it… I love you. Have I told you that yet today?"

"A few times actually… You tend to tell me those little words while we're making love… You also tell me by what you do, like this, the story, and your poems," she responded.

"Which reminds me… I have a new one for you, but I imagine you already read it since I found your poem…I loved it. It was the inspiration for our morning frolic."

A smile spread across her face. "Thank you…but I didn't read it… I figured you would show me when you were ready," she said caressing my arms.

"How bout we get out and I'll read it to you?" I suggest as I kiss her forehead.

We get out of the bath and dry each other off. I forgot how much fun it is to be intimate with another person like this. All the heartache that we have gone through to get here is worth it for these moments together. We go back to the bedroom and cuddle in bed as I read Max my latest poem to her, my muse.

All for You

My heart- pounds

My eyes- tear

My senses- alive

My soul- soars

All for you…All for you

My laugh- engages

My smile- uplifts

My mood- improves

My wit- sharpens

All for you…All for you

My body- aches

My breath- spent

My skin- tingles

My lips- wait

All for you

All for you

All for my love!