"You don't need to be perfect, to be perfect for me." With that said, I pulled us down to sit on the sandy ground. The waves lapped the shore, whilst the light coolness of the seabreeze caressed us both. "Come babe, it's your day today." I motioned to clear the ground of pebbles as best as I could as she sat down, held my arm and leaned against me.
"What day? Today nothing mah." She gave me a little bite to my shoulder, the way she always did when she felt kind of frisky. I smiled secretly at the thought of us "frisking" one another later, as though as our fates would criss-cross and finally entwine in a fiery ball of passion.
I started to play the recording of yours truly on the mobile phone and thank goodness my little old Sony Ericsson had spunky speakers and the recording was audibly loud even with the noises from the sea surrounding us both.
We held another closer, not only from the cool night but part of it was to listen in to the solo rendition being played over the phone as well as just to be physically close to one another. "I declare that today is your day, for me to give you surprises and to remind you how much I love you. That's why it's a special day." She allowed me to plant a loving kiss on her forehead as she listened intently to me singing Quando Quando Quando, a special recording just for her.
As the song ended and all that left was the sounds of the waves crashing upon the shore, she looked at me and put her arms around my neck and pulled me close. Our foreheads rested against one another and the tips of our noses gently touched. "Dear, that is soooo nice. No one ever sang and recorded a song for me before. Thank you so much. Really can feel how much you sayang me." We kissed again as the stars shone upon us. I was not sure about her, but I felt that there was nothing in the world I would not give up for this moment. With her.
And then there were 2 surprises left...
After staying put for a little while, I guess the chill crept up to me and I began to shiver from the cold. She must have felt the same way as she suggested we go back. As we walked back hand in hand, I popped the next surprise on her as I was already dying from keeping it from her and wanted to pamper her all over again.
"Baby, you know there is more to come. That recording was just showing you a little of tonight. I have another surprise for you." We stood outside the car as I unlocked the doors, none of us willing to let go of one another in order to enter the vehicle.
She laughed gaily and pushed me against the drivers' side door and pushed her body against mine. I inhaled all of her wondrous all-women scent and felt a new sensational high. "Dear, all I want is for you to be healthy so we can be together always. Your gifts pale in comparison to you, and all that I ever will need is you and that will always be my true feelings."
"Since when you so good with words huh?" I chuckled and gently pinched the sides of her bosom making her pull back with feigned disgust at my cheeky antic but soon we were again embracing and kissing for the umpteenth time tonight. "Really babe, I have another surprise for you. It's in the car."
"Honey, you won't need that tonight. I told you I prefer to be raw with you tonight." She giggled as she passed that statement as we entered the car, her reference to condoms lingering in my lust filled mind.
I opened the glove compartment and in it lay the present, all wrapped up and ready for it's discovery. She goshed upon seeing it and as I held it up for her, her eyes seemed to well up in tears as she knew what it would be seeing the brand on the gift emblazoned across the length of the pink ribbon.
"Oh my god. Don't tell me you spent money on this!?" She exclaimed incredulously but she must have felt excited with it as she took it and began to open it up. When the box opened up, she took out the red pouch and pulled out her next surprise. "Oh man! Dear! Dear!" Words could not describe her ecstacy as she held up the necklace I had gotten.
"Come, let me help you put it on."
"Dear! I... Thank you so much." I wiped a tear from her eye as I took the necklace and helped her with it. Some people say that jewellery makes a woman look prettier and much more feminine. In her case, I would dare say she made the necklace look so much more beautiful that it ever would be on the inanimate dummy in the boutique.
As I leaned back and gave her the full once over with the necklace on, she was truly like a princess, my princess. Her smiles and her total look of happiness and surprise was worth much more than what the necklace would ever cost. I was a very satisfied man and beside me was the woman I loved more than anything. I was in bliss. And I hope to God that she would feel the same way too.
Without a word, she leaned over and hugged me once more as I fumbled to start the car and to turn on the airconditioning. No words were exchanged but I could feel a tear of hers streak down between our cheeks.
And then there was 1 surprise left...
As we left the sacred sanctuary of Sembawang and entered the main road leading us back to her home, she held my non-driving hand and gave me a little surprise of her own. "Dear, tonight can you drive me to someplace else?"
"Where would you like to go? It's quite late already now." I glanced at the clock on the dashboard and saw that it was close to 11.30pm.
"Head to Mandarin Gardens." She replied. "I haven't told you that I rented a place there to stay and just moved in a few days ago. Our little love nest." She squeezed my hand tightly and lay on my shoulder.
Whoa! My mind just went into overdrive hearing that from her. We now have a place of our own and that just made my plans tonight sweeter by the minute! I nodded my acknowledgement and just drove on quietly, my mind in a whirl with all the little plans of lovemaking, myself surprising her with a meal after work one of these days and also of dropping by secretly and leaving secret love notes in obvious places for her to discover on her own.
"Wow! How come you never tell me about it? Do I get a spare key too huh?" I quibbed in jest and I pulled into TPE and accelerated past the posted speed limits towards ECP.
She laughed as she pulled out a bunch of keys from her soon-to-be-replaced handbag. "See? All ready for the man of the house already. Oh and by the way, the condoms are in the pedestal beside the bed already. So no need to stopover at any petrol kiosk to prepare." We laughed together at our favorite sex joke. One that would never lose it's special meaning between us.
I pulled into the condominium grounds and she waved at the guard and showed her residents' pass as the sleepy old Indian man waved us through. I wasted no time in parking and made a show of facing a lot of difficulty while reverse parking. It was part of my plan to put the 3rd surprise in motion. Concerned, she asked me if there was a problem as I kept reversing in and out of the lot and looking at all the mirrors.
"Babe, can you help me go to the back and help me with getting into the lot? I can't see at all."
She exited and went to the back and started to wave me in. I triggered the opening of the boot and it kind of shocked her to see the back of the car open up. From my angle in the driver's seat I could not see her well but I knew she would be looking at the 3rd surprise as I positioned it perfectly in the boot and she would have seen it when it opened.
Time seemed to have slowed to a crawl. I saw her leaning into the boot and taking out the bag and then checking it out before she walked over to the driver's side. I rolled down the windows and stuck my head out and gave her a little victory sign with my fingers and smiled like a geek. She strapped the new bag over her shoulders and with arms akimbo, stared at me. "You ah. Tonight you are so going to get it." She came right up in front of me and hugged my head to her breasts, smothering my face into her body.
Her new place was on the 12th floor and as we reached her doorstep. I asked hesitantly, "Are you going to invite me in for a drink?" I tried to look as innocent as possible, roleplaying it as if it was our first date.
She grabbed my arm and held tight as she unlocked the metal gate. "Dear, you are not going home tonight! You are going to be staying the night and I will be trying my best not to let you sleep."
Goodness to goodness. The stars are going to fade and it looks like the moon will too.
- Final Part Upcoming -
