Installment #23 {Slow dancing with Amalie
When they reached the Desjardins home, Amalie invited him in and led him back to the game room where he and Tony had played pool. "Open the chardonnay, David," she said gaily, as she sailed out of the room. "There's a corkscrew behind the bar."
David struggled clumsily with the unfamiliar task, finally managing to draw the cork from the chilled chardonnay without crumbling it up too badly. He had just filled two glasses when Amalie rejoined him, knotting her wind-blown hair as she walked, her gait slightly unsteady from the wine she had drunk, the clean lines of the triangle formed by her uplifted arms accentuating the roundness of her proud young breasts.
"How about some music?"
"Sure," said David a bit nervously as he offered Amalie one of the glasses and lifted the other to his lips..
Amalie took the glass and flipped a switch on the tape player, and a pulsing rhythm and blues ballad filled the room.
Amalie downed her glass in an instant, and held it out for a refill, which David obliged. Holding the glass precariously in one hand, Amalie glided around the room dreamily, circling the billiard table, at one point bumping her knee against the large sofa at the far end of the room. As she circled the room, she adjusted the settings on a number of wall lamps, so that by the time she rejoined David near the bar and filled her glass again, the room was enveloped in a soft golden glow that bathed her eye-catching skin in a sea of warmth.
"David. Would you like to dance with me?" Amalie purred. When David, no dancer, declined, she pursed her pretty lips and pouted, "Please?" She ran her tongue seductively around the rim of the wine glass, and then downed half of its contents and gave David another enticing smile. Then she spun around again, humming along with the music, her thighs deliciously bare beneath the hem of her short white skirt, until she bumped into the corner of the pool table.
"Oopsy," she giggled. Then she smile sweetly at David again. "Pretty please?"
David had as much confidence in his ability to dance as he had in his ability to walk on water, but he clambered awkwardly to his feet, as much to hold Amalie up as to dance with her.
"Wait – this is the last song on this tape. Let me put another one in." Amalie emptied her glass and strode unsteadily across the room. "Do you like Smokey?"
David stared at her blankly.
"Smokey Robinson? You know – used to be with the Miracles?"
"Sorry. Is he the latest pop star?"
"Oh, DAV-id!" Amalie exclaimed in exasperation. "No, he's been around for years. Must be forty. But his songs are so … romantic. I just love him."
As she walked toward the entertainment center, Amalie stopped at the bar to refill her glass, and frowned when she saw that only a trickle of white wine was left. "Hey, David, open the other bottle of Chardonnay, while I look for the tape."
David was already light-headed from the wine-tasting in Santa Ynez and the single glass he had drunk of the Chardonnay. Amalie was well beyond light-headed.
"Are you sure? I really don't need any more."
"Oh, David. You're always such a spoilsport. Relax for once in your brilliant life!" David glanced at Amalie. There had been a hint of mockery in her voice, but there had been respect and affection, too. 'Oh, what the hell,' he said to himself and reached for the corkscrew.
He had even worse luck with the second cork than he had with the first, but not because of the wine he had drunk. Amalie was bent over from the waist flipping through a rack of cassettes, her sweet, heart-shaped bottom high in the air. As she searched, she wiggled her hips slowly from side to side, swaying gently in time with the music.
"Ow!" David yelped, his fascination with Amalie's delicious derriere having caused him to stab his finger with the cork-screw.
"You OK over there?" she murmured, as she continued sorting through the tapes, her spankable buttocks describing sensuous circles in the air.
"Yeah, just clumsy." Regretfully David took his eyes off Amalie's sexy backside long enough to suck the blood from his finger and to butcher the rest of the cork out of the bottle. "Got it," he said a moment later as he tried to scrape the fragments of cork from the lip of the bottle.
"Me too," Amalie said straightening, and a moment later the smooth silky falsetto voice of Smokey Robinson drifted across the room. "This is my own mix," Amalie whispered as the turned around to face David. "It has all my favorites."
She began dancing again, closing her eyes and crooning, "Ooo-ooo-ooooohhh, baby, baby," softly along with the recording. Then she opened her sparkling eyes and whispered, "Well, are we going to dance or not?"
"Amalie, I-I really don't know how to …"
"Well, I guess it's my turn to teach you then," Amalie giggled, as she moved closer. "Here, take this hand, and put your other arm around me."
David took Amalie's right hand in his left and placed his right arm chastely across her mid-back.
"A little lower, David. That way it's easier to hold your partner close."
David lowered his hand to the small of her back, his hand finding the expanse of bare flesh betweem Amalie's clinging tube top and the waistband of her skirt.
"That's better – but hold me closer, David. I'm not radioactive, you know," Amalie giggled softly.
But as David pulled Amalie's body against his own, its warmth sent radiating fingers of delight coursing through his body. But a delight which did nothing to remove the leadenness from his feet. Despite the romantic pulse of the music, David found himself unable to do much more than rock gently to and fro.
"Oooo-oooo-ooooh, baby, baby," Amalie sang softly again, as her body swayed gently in time to the music despite David's awkward motionlessness. Removing her right hand from his grasp, she wrapped both of her arms tightly around his neck.
Reveling in the delicious pressure of Amalie's yearning breasts against his chest, and the heat of her breath against his shoulder David's newly free hand fell to her waist and pulled her even closer, his inhibitions swept away by the wine and the beautiful half-tipsy cheerleader in his arms. Could she feel his huge erection, she wondered?
As they continued to dance almost motionlessly, a new song began and Amalie began to sing the words to the second song,
I don’t care if they start to avoid me
I don't care what they do.
I don’t care about anything else,
But being with you, being with you.
Meanwhile, encouraged by Amalie's obvious contentment, David began to relax a bit and started to move his feet with a little more confidence.
"That's it David," Amalie murmured dreamily, and rewarded him by pressing her body even more closely to him.
Emboldened by the feel of her nipples hot and hard against his chest, David's hands slid down a few inches, and found Amalie's yielding bottomcheeks. He squeezed them tentatively, and when she purred kittenishly, he gripped them tighter, crushing Amalie's body against his.
Amalie pulled away and David's heart sank, feeling he had gone too far, but Amalie gave him an amorous smile and danced seductively toward the counter where she had left a nearly-full wine glass. She tilted it to her lips, giggling when some of it spilled down her chin and onto her bare upper chest. She snatched up a napkin and dabbed at the spill, before downing the rest quickly.
"Want some more, David?" she asked, reaching for the bottle.
"No, I'm fine," he replied, trying not to stare at the deepening cleavage displayed by Amalie's wiping gesture.
"Suit yourself," she said, pouring herself another glass.
A moment later Amalie melted into his arms again and he held her close through the next song on the tape. At its end, Amalie lifted her head and whispered in slurred but honeyed tones, "I had a wonderful day today, David."
He smiled down at her warmly and said, "It was wonderful, wasn't it?"
Amalie clung to him even closer, letting him feel the stiffness of her nipples against his chest. "Would you like to make it a wonderful night?"
David started to say, "I am having …" and then the full import of her words fought its way through the chardonnay-tinged mist that had somewhat befogged his own thinking
"But what about Tony?" he asked cautiously, enjoying the pressure of Amalie's warm, bare belly against the tip of his erection.
"I'm mad at him, David. He was mean to me last night. He scares me sometimes."
David remembered the sound and the sight of the wavy-haired Italian's big hand smacking against Amalie's proud-thrusting breasts and he felt a wave of vicarious lust course through his loins. She certainly had good reason to be fearful of the crude quarterback.
"David," she purred stepping away from him. "I've seen how you look at me."
"Y-you have?" he stammered nervously. Had she seen him peeping through the window last night? Or had she been aware of his presence this morning, on the beach, when she had so brazenly offered her body to the sun and the sea?
"Of course," she smiled. "The day I wore my 'Daisy Duke' outfit, your eyes lit up like a Cub Scout at a candy store."
David flushed. "I – I …"
"And in the car, yesterday and today," Amalie said, sipping again at her wine, her hips still swaying sensuously in time to the music. "Did you think I didn't know that you were checking out my legs every time the wind lifted my skirt?"
"Amalie, I'm sor …"
"David, it's OK!" Amalie said reassuringly. "Pretty girls like to be looked at," she added in a teasing voice. "Why do you think we become cheerleaders?" Amalie downed the rest of her wine and placed the glass on the edge of the pool table. Then turning to face him once again, she crossed her arms over her shapely breasts and hugged herself sensuously. "Would you like to look at my legs now, David?"
His heart pounding at twice its normal rate, David wiped at the perspiration on his forehead and tried to speak, but the words would not come.
Amused by his discomfiture, Amalie glanced at the unmistakable bulge in his crotch. "I'll take that for a 'yes', " she purred, and reached out and pushed him backward gently until he sank down into the corner of the long sofa. She stood in front of him and slid her pale fingers down over her tanned belly, down over the bleached white fabric of her tennis skirt, and took its hem in her fingers. Then, her fingers moving at tortoise-like speed, she raised it two or three inches, giving her enraptured admirer a peek at her tawny thighs.
“You like my legs, don’t you, David?” she said breathily, hiking the short skirt even higher on her golden thighs as she moved closer to him.
“Of course,” he stammered, his words catching on his excitement.
“I like to touch them, David,” Amalie purred as she let her fingertips trace the contours of her inner thighs. “They’re so soft and warm. I’ll bet you’d like to touch them too, wouldn’t you, David?”
David could not speak, but as he edged forward on the couch, Amalie let go of the hem of the short skirt, crossed her hands and slid them caressingly up over the sensual plane of her belly. “ Go ahead, David. Touch them.,” she whispered, as David’s trembling hands inched toward her thighs.
When David’s fingertips first touched Amalie’s thigh-flesh, he pulled back slightly, as if a jolt of static electricity had passed through his fingers. But when Amalie neither took flight nor resisted, he grew bolder, placing his thumbs gently on her inner thighs, just below the hem of the pale skirt, enjoying their softness and warmth. He spread his fingers caressingly, letting them explore Amalie’s flawless skin.
“Mmmmm, I love the feel of your hands, David,” Amalie purred dreamily, swaying softly back and forth in time to the slow ballad coming from the tape player.
“Your skin… it’s so soft … so beautiful,” David Chao mumbled. As he slid his fingers slowly up Amalie’s bare legs, he turned his hands inward slightly, so that his fingers pressed against the backs of her thighs. His courage having grown almost as fast as his erection, he eased his hands up under the imagined barrier formed by the hem of her skirt and began to explore her upper thighs, one moment letting the backs of his hands graze Amalie’s inner thighs with light feathery strokes, and the next kneading the firm flesh of her legs with more aggressive intent.
His passion mounting, David grew bolder still, his fingertips sliding up Amalie’s outer thighs until they found the lower edge of her panties. He tried to work his fingers inside the seam of her panties, but they were too tight to allow him much freedom, and he contented himself for the moment with gripping her buttocks through the wispy fabric and squeezing her yielding flesh.
“Mmmm,” Amalie moaned softly again. Spurred on by her pleasure, David’s fingertips tightened on her ass-cheeks, and he pulled her closer, until Amalie stood unsteadily between his widespread knees, swaying to the music, the jewel of her navel only inches from his face. Grunting with desire, David slid his hands inside the waistband of her white panties and then downward, cupping the curves of her naked buttocks still tighter as he pulled her belly to his lips.
Amalie squirmed with desire as David’s lips found her bare midriff. His pink tongue stabbed into the tender recesses of her belly-nook, making up in ardor what he lacked in experience. She reached behind his neck and held his face against her tummy, feeling his hot breath against her bare skin, and then suddenly she placed her hands on his shoulders and pushed him backward until his shoulder-blades were flat against the back of the couch.