exhaustion on the surface of her plain camp bed.
“Oh believe me,” she grinned in spite of herself. “Not all of it.”
***
During the course of the next few days, Jasmin couldn’t help but notice a slight shift in her relationship with her roommate and longtime friend.
Sure, they still went out for frozen yogurt every Sunday afternoon; taking the time to discuss the events of their lives and enjoy one another’s company.
Now, however, Joel topped off these afternoons by asking her if she was hungry for something else; and invariably they would end up back in her bedroom, his head bowed worshipfully between her knees.
“Sometimes we don’t even make it back to the apartment,” she gritted her teeth, remembering what they had come to know as the ‘car port catastrophe’; in which several of their neighbors had caught them enjoying their newfound passion on public property.
As much as she enjoyed these encounters, she often wondered at the fact that her passionate friend never took anything for himself; for though they shared endless passionate kisses and warm caresses, he never asked her to pleasure him sexually. And while they enjoyed frequent ‘play dates,’ just as they always had, they’d never ventured out on a proper date.
Seeking to rectify this situation, Jasmin suggested that they dress up for dinner one evening; also enjoying a meal of filet mignon and buttered mashed potatoes, washed down with some glistening goblets of sparkling French champagne.
Jasmin dressed for this dinner in a red silk dress that accentuated her rubenesque curves; also piling her mussy hair atop her head and applying a sparkly coat of rarely won red lipstick.
“You look so beautiful.” Joel praised her arrival at the table; immediately jumping up from his seat to pull out her chair for her.
Jasmin took her seat at the head of the table, smiling up at the ebony haired wonder in the sleek black dinner suit that emphasized his muscular frame.
“You are too!” She returned his compliment, watching as he took a seat close beside her at their candlelit dinner table. “I’m so glad you agreed to this date.”
“I was so flattered by the offer,” Joel’s vibrant smile seemed all the more luminous in the glow of brilliant candlelight. “Absolutely petrified, but flattered all the same.”
“Petrified?” Jasmin shook her head, adding through gritted teeth, “I’ve had guys express reluctance at the prospect of dating me, sometimes outright hilarity, but out and out terror—now that’s a new one.”
Joel guffawed outright.
“And that’s exactly why I was petrified,” he nodded in her direction, “How could I, of all people, serve as a fitting date for such a funny, brilliant woman?”
Jasmin shook her head.
“Joel, how can you even think such a thing?” She clutched his hand across the table. “Why do you think we’ve made such great friends and roommates for the past year? We talk endlessly, about everything. And I want to talk about more… so much more.”
She grinned as Joel bit his lip, casting a shy glance in her direction.
“Are you saying that you’d like me to be your boyfriend?” His tone soft and hopeful.
Jasmin said nothing, only graced him with an affirming nod that brought him out of his chair; letting loose with a victorious whoop as he swept her up in his arms and claimed her lips in a passionate kiss.
As his lips and tongue massaged hers he carried her into the living room, walking in the direction of the soft, plush ebony day bed that formed the center of the room.
“Dinner can wait,” he growled against her lips, “I’m far hungrier for you.”
Tossing her trembling body into the softness of a soft down comforter, he stood tall and proud before her to perform a deliberate striptease that drove her insane.
She sighed her approval as he slowly peeled away his dark velvet