The Dinner Date 1
The Dinner Date 1
The Dinner Date 1
“Hello?”
Reading me just right, he palmed my hip with his free hand as he sidled up to me
from behind.
“Thanks,” I leaned my cheek into his, “so do you. And clean-shaven today too?
What’s the occasion?”
Without pulling away, I turned to face him then, wrapping my arms loosely
around his neck. The bottle of rose in his hand was cool on my thigh as he urged
me in closer for a soft kiss hello, to which I responded with a slight but full-body
swoon. Then we exchanged verbal greetings with the same level of nauseating
cuteness that happens when you wake up and find the person you like still lying
next to you:
“Nope,” I stole another quick peck and turned my attention back to the steaming
saucepan. “You just sit down and do the most important job of all.” His
eyebrows asked the silent question for him. “Look pretty for me,” I explained.
“Of course.” He batted his eyes at me and offered me a little bow. “I graciously
accept this mission, my lady.”
While I shucked basil leaves from their stalks and sliced them into thin strips, I
heard the clink of glasses being dragged from the cupboard, the crack of the
bottle, the glug of the first pour, then the second. Just as I dropped the aromatic
leaf bits into the rich, tomatoey sauce, he was behind me again, wrapping his
arm past my midsection to place my glass next to the cutting board.
“Thank you.”
“Soooo, how—”
“Hold that thought,” I said pulling away to stir the pot once again. I dragged the
wooden spoon through the bright red sauce and scooped up a bit on the end,
blowing softly to cool it just enough before slipping it into my mouth.
“Ohhh, fuck, dude... Damn, I'm good. Come here and taste this.”
As I turned around with a scoop for him, one cupped hand under the bell of the
spoon just in case, he kissed me first.
We’d been seeing each other fairly steadily for a while by then. Though it’s hard
to pinpoint exactly where our story started. We’d worked pretty closely
alongside each other for a couple years as servers at the same restaurant, but it
will be forever unclear as to what the spark was. The thing that invited us to
make the transition from friends to lovers, I mean. Whatever it was, I’m
definitely not mad about it.
Then there were the several months of ‘hanging out’ before we realized just how
much effort we had been putting into seeing each other on a regular basis. Once
we got over respective insecurities about what starting a new
‘relationship’ should look like, we finally settled into whatever this nice thing
we have going on here is.
He kept his fiery eyes on me as he dragged his lips over the weathered wood,
stripping the sauce from the spoon. “Damn, that is good. It’s got some kick,
hey?”
“Thank you, that’s the point of a good arrabbiata. She’s supposed to be a little
angry.”
“Good, because I think business at the restaurant would take a serious hit if you
started coming in wearing baggy kitchen whites instead of that cute all-black-
everything you’re usually rocking.”
He clasped the back of my neck and dragged his hand down my spine to palm
my hip once more before pulling away. I looked over my shoulder and watched
him take a seat on one of the bar stools at my island.
“Damn, dude.” I scrunched my face at him like I was appreciating a particularly
greasy guitar riff. “You do that well.”
Wine in hand, I crossed the kitchen to stand across from him at the island and
very seriously said, “Look hella fine.”
He chuckled and averted his gaze with a hint of bashfulness before finding my
face again. He was so adorable sometimes, it was painful. “Why, thank you.
You’re not too bad yourself.”
“What, this?” I said raising both arms in presentation like a magician’s assistant.
“I just woke up like this.”
I let my smile get the best of me that time and sighed freely. “Where did I find
you?” I said raising my glass to him.
We cheersed once more, staring each other down with a little more ferocity this
time as we sipped.
“Uhh…” he wiped a droplet of wine from the corner of his mouth with the pad
of his thumb while he pretended to think. “Well, I think you targeted me after
we made eyes at each other at one of Noah’s parties.”
“Targeted? Really? Come on.” I feigned offense, but I was also preening. “Are
you sure? That doesn’t sound like me.”
I pressed my palms to the counter behind me and bit the inside of my cheek,
silently urging him to continue with this tale I already knew too well. Like a kid
having their parents read their favorite book for the 17th time that night; I could
listen to it at least once more.
“You were hanging around the fridge like kitchen lurker that you are.”
“What?” I mock-gasped and perched myself up on the counter’s edge, letting my
feet dangle playfully. “Ample lean space, snacks and drinks in abundance, a
constant revolving door of new faces coming straight to you? It’s clearly the
most prime real estate at any house party!”
He got up then and made his way around to my side of the island.
“And you got sassy with me about my choice of beer,” he said wedging himself
between my legs and resting his perpetually warm palms on my thighs.
“Mmm, yeah, you could have done better on that one, it’s true.”
“Being the low-key beer nerd that I am, I had no choice but to defend my honor.
But that’s what you were banking on, wasn’t it?” He fiddled with the hem of my
skirt between his thumb and forefinger. “You knew exactly what you were doing
and had your claws dug in before I knew what was happening.”
He squeezed the dips of my waist with both hands; I leaned in and buried my
face into his neck. Breathing him in, he smelled the same now as he did that
night. “Mmm, maybe…” I conceded with a soft giggle.
“I was helpless…”
I jerked back to look him in the face again. “Oh, come on, it wasn’t that bad,
was it?”
“Obviously not, since I asked you out on a proper date the very next night.”
“Ha! ‘Proper date.’ Is that what we’re call grabbing a beer after our shift and
then you not so subtly inviting me back to your place to, uh, ‘continue our
conversation’?”
I said that last part in a deliberately bastardized rendition of his baritone voice.
“And then when we got back to mine,” he kissed my neck and I shivered, “we
both played coy because as hot as we were for each other, we were both a little
unsure of how it would all work out at work the next day.” He nibbled my
earlobe and I caught myself somewhere between a snicker and a swoon. “Not to
mention we were probably both freaking out about being rejected, even though
we knew that there was no other way we were going to go down.”
I pretended to push him away and said, “Ugh, who are you? I feel so seen right
now,” but he just leaned in closer and slid his hand up my inner thigh, under my
skirt.
“And then…” he said, his words coming more slowly now as he ran his
knuckles along the crotch of my underwear. “Hmm… I think I’m drawing a
blank now.”
It was with some difficulty that I tried to take over the narrative.
“The one you hooked up with at the staff wine night, right?”
“Mmm,” I bit down on my lip to diffuse the moan oozing out of me. “Yeah,
that's the one."
“Too bad he couldn’t have stuck around through the winter…” His taunting had
fallen nearly to a whisper as he slid his fingers past my panties, rubbing slowly,
up and down the length of flesh just beyond them. “I miss that guy too… He
worked… really hard back there…” I groaned when he paused to press his
knuckle to my rim of puckered muscle. “And then what?”
“Huh?”
“Umm…” I was already drunk off his touch. “Wait, where were we?”
“Me rambling about the hot bar-back you hooked up with after the wine training
seminar.” He pressed his whole palm to the curve of my mound for emphasis.
“Unhhhh,” I carded my fingers through his close-cropped hair; my lower back
arched on its own. “And then, you got sassy and told me that I should probably
find some way to shut you up.”
He cut himself off by kissing me, much deeper than before, at the same time as
he slid one finger past my threshold. My grip on his hair tightened with every
painfully slow thrust of his hand. I bit his lip for him that time.
“Just like that?” he teased. “Or maybe a little more?” He kissed along my neck
as he slid a second finger inside.
The laugh roiling at the bottom of his exhale was diabolical. “And then right
after that, I seem to remember you crawling on top of me, like a mountain lion
going in for the kill bite.”
I couldn’t help but laugh then; I felt myself clench even harder around my
fingers. “You make me sound like a real predator, you know that.”
“Am I that far off?” He paused with his fingers still inside me. “You can be
intimidating as fuck. Hot, yes, but also kind of scary. I didn’t stand a chance.”
“Like, I know I do alright.” He gestured up and down at himself with his free
hand to return to his original point. “But look at you.” I shuddered when he
withdrew from me to use both hands then to gesture at me. “You can’t blame a
guy for clamming up a bit with all of this literally pouncing on him.”
I released his fingers with a pop. “Be less of a babe and maybe I’ll stop.”
“My point is… All you did was show up, scan that party, point at me, and
basically went, ‘You. You’re coming with me.’ And I knew that I’d nod along to
whatever you said because apparently I’m powerless to your crippling
charm.” He pulled away just enough to reach back and to retrieve my wine glass,
and hand it to me. “Or maybe I was just scared that you would go full lady
praying mantis on my ass if I didn’t.”
“Holy shit, you are trifling!” I said, accepting my glass but giving him a little
swat on his arm all the same. “Going a little heavy on the butter tonight, hey?
What kind of kinky shit are we getting into that needs this much pre-greasing?”
Ironically enough, it was me who probably should have been doing the pre-
greasing. But I figured we’d just cross that bridge when we came on it.
Meanwhile, he was doing another tour of the island. I took the opportunity to
check my sauce and give it a quick stir. When he came back to me, he had his
stool with him and positioned it right in front of me. The way he nudged me
around made it clear what he needed from me—I braced myself on the counter,
raised my hips, and let him slide my underwear right off. As I rested myself
back down on the counter, he took up his perch on the stool and looked up at me
from between my legs with a wild glint in his eye.
“I don’t know,” he finally said. “But I’m sure we can figure something out.”
And then he and that very capable mouth of his were under the tent of my skirt
doing beautifully filthy things to what he found down there.
He always started out gently. Heavy breaths first, then kisses and soft licks along
the crook of my groin, teasing out streams of shivers and shudders that made my
lower back spasm and my hips quake. He gradually made his way closer and
closer to my center until finally, he pried me open with that first long stroke
from perineum to clit.
My knuckles blanched as I gripped down harder on the countertop with each
swipe. Thank god I’d done the dishes earlier because my ass nearly slipped into
the sink. After a few long flourishes with the flat of his tongue, he homed in on
my clit, tracing wet, concentrated circles around it as I continued to harden for
him. With that, I could take more and more of what he had to offer, which he
knew almost as well as I did by then.
Before I could finish my sentence, he was obligingly thrusting two, then three
back into the slick between my labia, stretching me just a little more, while his
tongue grew more voracious, but steady as ever.
I wanted to grab hold of his head, but I feared that if I let go of the counter, I’d
take us both out. Words and a little hip thrust would have to do. “Oh, fuck, that
is so good.”
Not until the stove timer chimed and I reluctantly made him stop. As hungry as I
was for more of him, not starting a kitchen fire took priority.
Between everything he was doing down there and the timer still crying out, I
could barely form simple words; I tapped him urgently on the shoulder to get the
message across.
He pulled his glistening face out from under my skirt and flashed a wicked smile
at me.
I hopped off the counter, smoothed down my skirt, and took a deep breath that
turned into soft laughter as I silenced the stove timer. As he stood with me, he
pulled me by the hand and scooped me up for another wet kiss. I almost let him
suck me back in too, but this night was far from over and we’d need our energy.
“No! Eat first,” I said as sternly as I could muster. “Then we can come back to
dessert.”
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JR
Written by
Jayne Renault