Room 31 - First time (Milena)

Fantastic view over the Seine, the breakfasts in room included, a bathroom with bathtub, a very good opportunity for our first night. We wanted it special, in a frame which we can remember together. Check-in negotiated for 11 am in the morning. It was necessary to negotiate hard with her. Little by little, she gave up, joining my idea that we needed a particular place for our first time. I held it, as much as to my luxury tastes and my requirements regarding hotel business. The taste of the beautiful, a certain refinement, to welcome our gestures and our kisses. Two weeks when we either did not see each other, or did not contact and even less kissed each other. In Lyon, we had failed and then our bodies had considered that it was still too early. We had by-passed by pushing farther, much farther, our touches. They were already almost as first time, preview time. I had enjoyed her twice on Tuesday and Wednesdays. I had adored her taste just as much as the way she gives way to my lips, my teeth, my tongue and my fingers. I would have liked that she enjoys completely. During her stay in Paris, our secret and early meetings had been renewed from Sunday morning till Wednesday, every day marking the more and more authoritarian necessity of seeing us again the next day, in the dawns, and of having breakfast at my home, on my bed. Every morning had had its prize of surprises, revealing our mutual hunger, the unexpected fall of our barriers. It had begun on a Sunday morning, to the market of the Enfants Rouges. She had arrived from behind, affixing her naked hands on my face. Instinctively, our fingers had got tangled, then her waist had given in my arm. She wore a blue, rather short woolen dress and near her body. In the café, she had defined a virtual limit in the middle of the table of bar, between my cup and her teapot. This blue dress, I shall never forget it. First kiss, my hand below her knee. Later, she revealed me that she wore stockings.

Daniel Nguyen is a short stories french writer published by the Editions de la Musardine, in France.