A Private Fireworks Display – By Sandra B

Those stolen moments….

Sometimes it seems that is all this love can ever be

Then the world slips away and it’s just you and me

Your hands touching my body, your lips on mine

Then, you look at me and I know this love is for all of time….

Marlena was doing it again.. just looking at John from a few feet away. John was talking to Hope, trying hard to listen to what his friend was saying to him. He did care, and he was worried about her going off alone, but his blue eyes.. his mind.. and most definitely his body.. were all responding to Marlena… his lover, his friend.. his everything. Marlena smiled and glanced over at him again; their eyes met and he felt his insides turn to mush.

The very thought of you and I forget to do

The little ordinary things that everyone ought to do……

Marlena was talking to Roman about something important, Sami and Franco, and she was very concerned.. but when she looked up and saw that grin… it was all she could do to maintain some semblance of concentration. She knew that smile and the look too. John was staring at her like a teenage boy who was completely smitten with her and all John could think of was stealing away with Marlena and tearing her clothes off. And, the truth be told.. that was exactly what she wanted.. after so much time alone.. Being with John, loving him, letting him make love to her, pleasing her as only he could do… Well, let’s just say she couldn’t never turn John down very easily, even if there were very good reason.

I’m living in a kind of daydream

I’m happy as a king

And foolish though it may seem

To me that’s everything…..

“Uh… Doc.. did you hear me?” she heard some distant voice saying, and then there was a slight tap on her shoulder which snapped her to attention.

The mere idea of you, the longing here for you…..

“What! ..Oh.. Roman.. yes, I.. think so…you were saying that you were very suspicious of Franco.. So am I.. we’ll have to watch him very closely.” she finished with an odd sort of a smile that Roman wasn’t quite sure about.

You’ll never know how slow the moments go till I’m near to you….

“Okay.. Doc.. listen, I’ll see you later.” was all he said, as he looked over and saw a similar, slightly dazed expression on John’s face. It was still so hard to accept that she would never look at him ..Actually she would never look at him that way…

I see your face in every flower

Your eyes in the stars above……

“John… did you hear me? I said that I’m leaving tonight.. for Lugano and I have to go and get ready… I’ll see you when I get back. ” He heard the words, but the meaning of them didn’t quite register in his brain and he nodded and said dully, “Uh.. yea… sure Hope, I’ll see you a little later.”

“No.. you won’t I’m leaving in a few hours.. I’ll see you when I get back home.. John!” Hope finally said exasperated with his apparent inattention, punching him only somewhat playfully on the arm. Turning herself in the direction of his gaze, she learned the reason for the sudden distraction. He was staring over at Marlena.. again.

It’s just the thought of you

The very thought of you, my love…….

Smiling, Hope said… “So.. I hear you and Marlena are breaking up.. too bad.. you really make such a cute couple.. can’t see anything but each other..”

Finally, something she said registered and he spoke with intensity. “Breaking up.. are you kidding? Where did you hear something like that? Things have.. never been…. better… between..” John slowed down and then stopped when he saw how hard she was laughing… “Oh… I..uh kind of drifted off on you there, didn’t I?” he asked, feeling pretty embarrassed at that point, his face turning a sweet shade of red.

The mere idea of you, the longing here for you….

Still chuckling, Hope agreed. “Yes.. you could say that… but it’s allright, John… Why don’t you go on over there.. whenever you’re even a few feet apart all you do is stare at each other, anyway. I doubt Marlena got much out of her conversation with Roman either.” Giving him a friendly shove, Hope said. “Go.. on.. we can talk some other time….”

You’ll never know how slow the moments go till I’m near to you…..

“You sure?” he asked, still embarrassed to be acting like schoolboy with a crush on the prettiest girl in class.

“I’m sure… you’re worthless to anyone but Marlena.. now get out of here.. would you?”

What could he say to that…. it was true. He only had eyes for Marlena. Grinning sheepishly he said. “Okay.. sorry about that Hope.. we’re just so…”

I see your face in every flower

Your eyes in stars above……

“I know… I remember… it looks good on both of you, John.. enjoy it.”

“I will.. thanks Hope.. I’ll call you later.” She nodded and watched him go over and embrace the woman he loved. Marlena was positively beaming as John approached her. She was glowing with the renewal of the love of a good man and as much as Hope was pleased for them, she had to turn away and leave the picnic, because it hurt too much to think about how far she and Bo were from sharing that kind of giddy happiness. It seemed like an entire lifetime ago, and maybe it was. That was something she had to find out. Then… someday, maybe she and Bo could share their love again.. ‘If it happened for John and Marlena it could happen for us too,’ she was saying to herself as she headed toward her car.

It’s just the thought of you

The very thought of you, my love…….

John came up to his love and instantly took Marlena in his muscular arms, holding her very close, saying. “Hey.. Doc.. what do you say we call it an evening and head on home to make our own… private… fireworks… I’ve got some great ideas that are as.. hot.. as a firecracker… Are you game, baby?”

“Keep talking… I want details.. ” Marlena said with a sly smile as she slid her hands around to John’s backside, running them around his firm, muscular lower back and slightly below it.

“Mmm… well, you’re making a good start there… It would also include a little of this… ” John said just before cupping the delicate features of Marlena’s face between his hands and then planting a moist, lingering and caressing kiss on her sweet lips.

“Oh… my!” she said when she recovered her senses.. “I do believe that does tend to light one’s fuse.”

John lowered his voice, nearly growling at her as he nibbled on Marlena’s neck and earlobes, then said. “Good…. and I’ve got lots more pure heat where that came from… so.. you wanna come go with me, baby?”

The very thought of you and I forget to do

The little ordinary things that everyone ought to do…..

Marlena sighed with anticipatory pleasure, shot John a sexy wink and then said, “Oooh, John.. you know I’d go anywhere with you…”

“Anywhere?” he asked, wondering exactly what Marlena meant and how far she would go for him.

Marlena took John’s hand to guide him toward the back gate, saying in an extremely seductive whisper. “Anywhere…”

“Woah! baby” was all he said, as he gathered Marlena into his muscular arms for one more stirring kiss before hitting the road, their tongues colliding passionately… And they soon found themselves well on the way to creating their own display of fireworks, the ones John had spoken of a few minutes earlier.

I’m living in a kind of daydream

I’m happy as a king

And foolish though it may seem

To me that’s everything……..

It’s just the thought of you

The very thought of you, my love……….

Poem written by Sandra H. Bondelier

Lyrics appearing in story taken from song entitled The Very Thought Of You written by Ray Noble as performed by Nat King Cole

There was a time

I was everything and nothing all in one

When you found me

I was feeling like a cloud across the sun……..

They were finally at home… alone, well sort of…the kids were asleep already, the sitter having taken them home from the picnic shortly after the Fireworks display. As John came back to the master bedroom after having checked on them, he stepped through the door to see his beautiful lady love bathed in the soft white glow of candlelight. Marlena was mostly covered by the sheet….mostly. What he could see was quite enticing, a wondrous sight to behold for his desiring eyes. He found there were very few words to accurately describe the feelings and bodily sensations such a heavenly vision stirred within him.

I need to tell you

How you light up every second of the day

That in the moonlight

You just shine like a beacon on the bay…….

So, rather than use words, he allowed a low, somewhat animalistic sound to escape his lips, to which Marlena responded with a sexy chuckle and then a question. “Hungry tonight, John?”

Sliding onto the bed he returned her question with another. “Who me… hungry? Only for love… Baby.” he said in a horrible imitation of Elvis Presley, which elicited another giggle that was decidedly not sexual in nature. So, he decided to kill the accent.. While his right hand cupped her left cheek, he said. “Well, earlier I believe… we were discussing fireworks… displays… and I must say what I had in mind was… awesome…” Looking at Marlena’s naked shoulders, barely able to restrain himself from the urge to rip the sheet away, he added. “And you.. my friend… have given it a very good start.”

And I can’t explain

But there’s something about the way you look tonight

Takes my breath away…….

Marlena smile was playfully seductive as were her words. “Yes… well, I know how visually oriented men are… and I just thought I would give you something to… see.”

“Oh.. but I can’t see much with the sheet pulled up… can I have a peek?” John asked in his sweetest, most charming tone.

“Hmm… well, only if you ask properly…” Marlena laughed at John’s puzzled expression. “John… how old are you anyway?” He still wasn’t getting her drift. “What are the magic words… Johnny?”

John laughed heartily at that one… “Oh.. that… well okay.. May I please have a peek, Marlena… love of my life…the woman who makes me.. *crazy!* before she lets me have anything?”

“John… I think you went a little too far there.. but.. allright.. you can have a little peek.” Marlena allowed the sheet to slip below her shoulders, exposing a small portion of her negligee. “There, how’s that?” she asked with a teasing smile.”

It’s that feeling I get about you deep inside

And I can’t describe….

“Better… but I need more… you know how visual we men really are..” he joked, using her idea.

Sitting up in bed to face John, Marlena replied more seriously. “Okay… but first I wanted to ask you a question, John… Earlier in the evening… you were so.. concerned about Hope and this idea of her going off alone to Europe.. Why did you cut your conversation short?”

“You have to ask…” he started to say, John’s expression filled with lust.

Marlena nodded and smiled knowingly, and said. “Mmm hmm.. I have my ideas.. but I wanted to hear it from you, sweetheart.”

Slightly aggravated with the delay, John gave Marlena a straight answer, hoping that would end all conversation finally. “Oh.. well, it wasn’t going very well, she said I wasn’t listening.. no concentrating.. or was it that I was concentrating on something else… can’t remember… anyway.. she ended it, not me.”

“What was it that had you so… distracted, John?” she asked, revealing a little more skin, toying with him.

But there’s something about the way you look tonight

It takes my breath away

The way you look tonight…..

“Oh… just.. things…” he said, looking down at Marlena in all her glorious beauty, her body perfectly clothed in a very sexy but tasteful item of lingerie.

Marlena appeared crestfallen. “Things…. you were distracted by things?” she said with obvious disappointment.

Catching on to the real reason she had brought it up in the first place, John decided to tease her. “Oh…. well, I guess you could say it was a combination of things and people.”

“Oh… please do tell, you’ve… aroused my.. curiosity, John.”

“Did you say aroused… I’ll show you aroused, baby. ” he said, just before pressing his anxious lips on hers, then slipping his tongue inside, very effectively re-igniting her internal fire.

“Ooh.. John… that was… amazing… but… I really do want to know… what people.. what things?” she said, hoping she was right in her assumptions.

Staring at Marlena’ body… admiringly, he said.. as John reached out with gentle, tender hands to caress her shoulders, and leaned in close to nibble on her neck and earlobes between his words, “Well… first…there were these two.. soft.. round.. objects… that I just…couldn’t.. take my eyes off of.. all evening long.. Every time I turned around… there they were and all I wanted to do was… feel them… and see them uncovered.” John was kissing and caressing Marlena in a way that made her ache to be closer, but she wanted to continue the teasing banter and the foreplay as well, for just a few more minutes.

With that smile

You pull the deepest secrets from my heart…….

A wide smile of appreciation appeared on Marlena’s face, as she said. “Oh… I think I’m beginning to understand now.. was there any.. *thing* else, John?”

“Oh… yea.. there was this set of eyes I kept getting lost in and this… pair of dry lips that… were calling out to me to come over and make them moist again. I just couldn’t resist a cry for help like that…you know.”

“No… you simply couldn’t do that, could you? Honey, would you like to demonstrate for me, so I can get a better image of what you mean?”

“Definitely… here goes..” he said excitedly as John cupped Marlena’s face between his hands and kissed her tenderly at first, but more feverishly as the seconds passed.

In all honesty

I’m speechless and I don’t know where to start……

Marlena was breathless when it ended… “Oh.. my…. I can see why you might have been distracted.. I have a confession to make.. I was too.”

“You were… by what.. things or people?” he asked, in jest, following her theme, a part of him wondering.

“Oh… it was a combination.” she teased, as Marlena began to undress her soon to be lover, lifting John’s t-shirt up over his head.

“You gonna tell me what it was.. for you?” John asked, hoping for some similar comments, but ready to forget when Marlena kissed his bare broad chest and nipped at a sensitive spot.

“Let’s see… well you mentioned eyes.. there was this set of brilliant.. deep blue eyes that were full of love and desire and I found myself getting so… lost in them.. that I couldn’t think of too much more than being with the person who owned them.”

“Oh.. really.. you hid that well. I never would have guessed.”

“I always have played things rather close to the vest..”

“Yea.. I know.. that’s why the sheet is still there.” he replied, tugging on it.

She slapped his hand playfully, saying. “Ah ah ah… not yet, my love… don’t you want to know what distracted me besides your eyes?”

John winked at Marlena and asked a desperate question, “Does it involve a hands on demonstration..you know.. so I can get the full effect?”

‘This is so much fun,’ she was thinking before she responded, “Mmm hmm.. definitely does.. Okay.. I was… distracted by this one..area..” Marlena said it while reaching toward his zipper. “.. that was covered by a tight… pair of.. black jeans and I was just so… curious about what it would feel like to touch it and have it close to me that I couldn’t concentrate very well, either.”

Marlena’s hands were working magic, after having helped John take off his pants, and he said in a nearly breathless whisper. “Woah.. Doc….. can we please.. stop.. talking and.. let the fireworks display begin for real?”

And I can’t explain

But there’s something about the way you look tonight

Takes my breath away……

“Okay… are you sure you’re really ready?” Marlena asked, still having fun teasing him.

“More than ready… I’m firing up the bottle rockets as we speak..” he joked again, laughing at himself this time.

“John… you’re so… ” was all she could eek out before John planted his sweet moist lips on hers and made magic inside her mouth.

At that point, Marlena didn’t want to tease any longer.. her body was flushed with desire, so she ripped off the sheet, exposing her lovely lingerie clad figure which made John swoon. As his hungry hands caressed her skin and touched her through the negligee, he moaned with desire and whispered with great passion. “Oh.. Marlena…. you are… SO beautiful to me.. more and more every day… you take my breath away, Doc.. That’s the God’s honest truth… I get dizzy just looking at you. That’s what happened tonight… I just couldn’t see anyone but you.”

Marlena was touched by those comments that were so clearly spoken from the heart. “John…you say such.. wonderful things to me.. “

As the fingers of his right hand threaded her silky tresses, he said softly. “I promise I won’t ever stop, Doc.. you deserve a lifetime of love and compliments.”

“So do you sweetheart… speaking of which.. I love this bared chest and this.. mouth.. and these ears.. and oh.. “

It’s that feeling I get about you deep inside

And I can’t describe……

“I’m so glad you do…Doc you need to work on giving compliments. And less talking” and that was the last word spoken as they were in the throws of intense passion. Lips met and lingered, hands roved and fingers probed… and pleasure mounted in time as arms and legs became intwined. As they kissed and touched and loved each other in perfect time, it was as if they were the only two people in the entire universe. And, there really were fireworks going off, as the bright light of their restored love relationship shined for the whole world to see. John and Marlena were back where they belonged, in each other’s hearts, in each other’s arms and sharing one life, one bed. This was love as it was truly meant to be, their great passion and physical love being expressed in the privacy of their own home.

But there’s something about the way you look tonight……

It takes my breath away

The way you look tonight

The way you look tonight…….

Lyrics appearing taken from song entitled The Way You Look Tonight written and performed by Elton John.