The Mating Game

The Storm

Feeling as if I have accomplished nothing by conversing with Katie I return to the house where Aaron is still sleeping peacefully.  I could sit here for hours watching the gentle rise of the blankets with each breath he takes because I know there will soon be a time when I will not have the luxury of this sight.   Nuzzling my head onto Aaron’s chest, he sleepily drapes his arm around my shoulder; pulling me close to his chest.  This is the reason why I have chosen to love Aaron instead of hiding from love.  For this moment right here in his arms, I feel like nothing can touch us, and we can take on anything that is thrown at us. It is for this moment that I allow myself to believe that I will spend the rest of my life in these arms.  Screw the mating game and the rules! The old stories always talk about how love conquers all.  I’m allowed to be naive. 

“It’s going to rain,”  Aaron says while holding me between his legs with the back of my head resting on his chest.  With each breath, he takes my back gently rises, and lowers with his breathing.  Playing with his hand in mine I open my resting eyes to glance at the darkened sky.  “Gee, what gave you that idea?  It couldn’t be the black looming clouds heading this way.  You are so observant.” I say jokingly nudging him with my arm playfully.  Nipping at my neck he mumbles into my skin “Okay smartass, I meant it looks like it’s going to be a bad storm.”  He’s now tickling my side right above my hip where he knows my skin is the most sensitive.  “Okay, Okay, mercy.”  I squeal trying to squirm out of his arms.  “No mercy until you admit that I’m right.” Laying my body down on the ground and maneuvering his on top of mine he starts a tickle assault on both of my sides while pinning me down with his weight.  Struggling half-heartedly to get out from underneath him I give in.  “You’re right you know everything about the weather.”  “That’s better.” Leaning down his kisses my nose.  “You are such an ass.”  “Mm-hum,” he says as he moves to my neck.  “You should probably get your traps out of the water.  They are going to get thrown around pretty bad out there.” He whispers into my ear while gently nibbling on my earlobe.  The hands which were just tickling me are now under my shirt and caressing the sensitive skin along my ribs.  “Sure,” I say as his lips cover mine.  This always seems to happen. Every time we are near each other.  My body becomes supercharged around him, and a harmless touch sends my skin and body over the edge.   The need always grows deep from within until I have to touch him. Tangling my hands into his wavy hair, I wrap my legs around his hips and lose myself in our kiss.  In the back of my mind a rumble of thunder registers but I pay no attention to it.  “No, really you should go get your traps.” He says in between kisses and exploring my tingling skin.  “Well, you are going to have to stop doing that if you want me to go.”  Biting his lower lip, I giggle and wrap my legs tighter around him. Taking my hands and draping them around his neck he leans back onto his knees and easily stands up gripping my thighs tightly with his hands and presses me against a tree trunk.   After a few more kisses he lets go of my legs so I can stand on my own.  “Alright Addy, get going but hurry back. I’ll meet you at the house. I have a few things I need to do before the storm hits.”  “I will” starting towards the path I am jerked backward and into Aaron’s tight embrace.  “Just one more” and with that, his lips are covering mine again.  “Okay, I mean it this time be careful,” he says releasing me and friskily slapping me on the ass.  “Yes sir” I salute as I begin walking again.  “I like it when you call me sir.  At least you know who is in charge around here” he shouts from behind me.  “If that’s what you want to believe” turning around I smile at him and give him the middle finger “Sir.”   “Love you”  “Love you too.” 

Arriving at the beach, I instantly notice that the water is choppier than usual.  The waves are crashing against the shore and rocks with more force than usual.  “He may be right.” I whisper stepping into the water.  Even though the waves are higher and stronger than usual, it’s not anything that I can’t handle.  I have swum in worse waves than this before, in the distance a streak of lightning shoots across the sky.  I better hurry up. Carrying the last trap on shore, I am startled by the loud crack of thunder that vibrates all around me.  “Damn it!”  With my hair thrashing around my face I glance back out at the ocean to see another bolt of lightning streaking across the sky shooting out in all directions covering the black sky with colorful webs of light. For a moment I get lost in the beauty but am startled back to reality when another burst of deafening thunder sounds out around me. At the same moment the wind picks up, and my body is almost knocked over by the sudden surge of wind that comes whipping across the beach.  Almost tumbling over I reach out too sturdy myself on a tree branch as the rain begins pelting my shivering skin.  The rain seems to be coming at me sideways, and it is falling with such force that it stings my skin.  “This does look like it’s going to be a bad one,” I mumble to myself while I look for a place far enough onshore to store the traps, so they are not pulled into the water by the impending waves which are growing larger and larger by the second and pounding the sand with an extreme amount of force.  A loud boom screams out from beside me, and sparks fly from a tree branch setting it on fire.  “Holy s**t!” A strike of lightning just struck a tree that was less than ten feet from where I was standing.  I need to get back to the house.