Of what I had planned….mmmmmppphhh” her sentence broke in the middle as I held her face in my palm kissing her tender lips hard locking her in a t...ght embrace. I broke the kiss much to my dismay but I felt I needed to let her speak what she planned to. She looked back into my eyes with equal percentage of love and lust. I slowly eased myself into the cot, as my hands cupped her cheeks again. I moved my lips parting it slightly as I found her trembling lips, eager and waiting for my touch. I. I smiled while I replayed the night in my head. I put on my pajama pants, shirt and slippers. My feet were cold. I went to the bathroom, got cleaned up and came into the living room, where I saw you sitting on the couch watching TV. You looked up at me and smiled. “Morning.” I said as I yawned. You corrected me, “You mean afternoon?” I looked at the clock on the microwave… yup its was 12:36. “Wow, I didn’t realize I slept that late” you laughed and said I must have been tired out. I just. Looking at the screen a few moments Joyce said, “Itwon’t be long before we’re joined.” “Looks like you’re already joined,” Tom said.“Joined hell! It looks like he’s trying to climeinside,” I said.“He was. And I loved it,” Joyce said.We all laughed and I heard the unmistakable sound ofTom’s zipper be-ing pulled down.I continued to watch the tape while from the corner ofmy eye I saw Joyce’s head move to. It didn’t take long, however, for the inner cynic to squelch that elation. ‘I’m on my way to lunch.’ She enjoyed the flash of disappointment on Jacquí’s face. Unable to maintain the brusque dismissal, Denise capitulated, ‘But you’re welcome to join me. I’m just going downstairs for a quickie. I have to show an apartment at one on the other side of the city.’ Jacquí grinned. ‘Let me grab my purse. Be right back.’ With that, she scurried down the hall as fast as her butter-cream Prada pumps would.