Time you made yourself useful, Aerin.

I stood slowly, ignored my naked state, and lugged the sofa cushion we’d used as a makeshift bed last night back to the built-in sofa. Laboring slightly to push all of the corners properly into place, I guessed that Harley must have had hooks built into back edges of the base of the sofa to slip the ties of the cushion through. After I finished tying the last one, I trudged to the umbrella and half-dragged, half lifted it over to the sofa area.

After laying a handtowel over the cushion to sit on it, I finally collapsed into the comfortable sofa and leaned back under the welcome shade of the umbrella to enjoy the heavenly latte my sweet Harley had brewed up for me.

My mind was still blissed out, and my thoughts roamed randomly through thoughts of stars blinking down from up on high, images of fine French food, butterfly kisses, and a tongue filling me up….

“If you plan on spending more mornings up here stark naked, I’ll just have to get the contractor back in to raise the walls, especially around the sofa!” I heard Harley exclaim and then let out a giggly, teasing laugh.   I heard the music she’d probably been grooving to downstairs as the door she’d stepped out of remained open. “Was kidding, baby. You’re well-protected from prying eyes,” she said with a wink, and then shook her ass to the beat of a 90s hip hop song thump out.

“Baby you’re a perfect 10,” she sang out as she shimmied to me.

I laughed and answered, “I like the way you work it … no diggi di..”

A breeze that blew in from behind her carried her fresh scent to me.   She’d showered already, I realized, and her face was scrubbed clean and remained make-up free. She sashayed towards me. As my heart started to race and butterflies begun to pitter-patter inside my stomach I eyed her longingly. I didn’t know how I liked her better … all-suited up and power-sexy like yesterday, or naughty sex-kitten-like, hiding in a billowy long skirt the day we met. Hmmm…maybe the innocent-seeming, gamine, make-up free temptress she was now? Think I like her in all 64 flavors, as the chain of ice-cream scoop stations put it.