My First Experience Being Blindfolded
It was quite a surprise when my blind friend David asked me to do something that I’d never done before. I was really stressed out that day and he had drawn me a hot relaxing bubble bath scented with an intoxicating aroma.He had been trying to tell me something but I don't know what. I had survived a horrific car accident and I was having trouble knowing what was real or fantasy. I just knew his hands were wonderful in bringing life back into my dormant body.When he touched me I was alive. I soon found out he wanted so much more….
My
clothes slid from my body onto the floor. David walked over to his bed. “I’m
going to leave the door open and that way we can talk.”
David
sits down and glances in my direction. I watched him as I stand naked. He seems
nervous, although I am not for a change.
The
heady smell of the bath oil relaxes me as I get in the steamy tub. I see him
blush--probably because he heard my clothes fall to the floor. He’s not a man
of steel after all, I see. Faintly, David plays his guitar. Moment’s later he
walks towards the door to where I am and pauses. “May I come in? I have
something for you.”
“Yeah,
but I’m naked in the tub again, so hide your eyes,” I tease.
He
sit’s down on the far corner of the tub with his guitar. He pulled out a black
scarf from his pocket and paused. “You ask me quite a bit about how I know
things, and how I can do this and that. I thought it would be interesting for
you to see what it would be like. Would you mind for the rest of the evening
being in the dark?”
I
wondered nervously, if this is some kind of kinky blindfold game, or if he’s
sincere.
“Sure…I’ll
give it a try, but don’t laugh.” I reasoned it couldn’t hurt anything.
I
watch him fold the scarf a few times and I sit still as he ties it around my
head, covering my eyes.
“Can
you see anything?” he asked.
I
adjusted one corner slightly. “I believe that’s got it.”
“Good.
I have a song I have been working on, if you would like to hear it, I’ll play
it for you now.”
I
listened as he strummed softly and after a couple of minutes went into the
melody. The ballad he sang stirred my soul. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a
more beautiful human voice than his.
“I
have no words to describe how amazing your music is.”
Awkwardly,
I heard him laugh. “I’m inspired.”
“I
believe I’m ready to get out now.”
“Here’s
a towel, Marena.”
He must have stood up because his voice
answered from above me.
I
reached out my hand to take the towel, but I grabbed his thigh instead. “OOPS,
sorry,” I said, jerking my hand back.
I’m
sure he must have smiled, but he said nothing. Feeling with my hands, I got out
slowly and dried myself off. I dressed quickly and stepped outside the bathroom
door with my scarf still intact.
“Where
are you David?”
“I’m
here on my bed.”
I
make my way over to the bed, and I actually could sense where he’s at, so I sit
down beside him. I hear him lay down his guitar. My heart is pounding and I
remember.
“David,
I must ask you something else about that night,” I blurted out. In a split
second it had all came back to me.
“You
know… that I know the answer already.”
“Say
it,” I demanded.
He
reaches over and takes my hand. He places it on his chest, which heaved greatly
as he spoke those words that only I knew.
“See my heart.”
Tears fall on my hands. What had I done
now? I’ve gone and made an angel cry.
~ Marena Jacobs from Radiance: Love after Death by Debra Jayne East
Bio:
Debra Jayne East was born the
oldest of six girls, in Martinsville, Virginia. For as long as she could
remember, she loved to keep journals, write poetry and short stories.
She researched her family tree and suddenly she
understood why. Her distant relative, Violet Florence Martin was an Irish
author, born in 1862, who co-wrote a series of novels with cousin Edith
Somerville under the pen name of Martin Ross in the late 19th and early 20th
centuries.
After she encountered a near-death experience
during a routine surgery, she realized her time had come to follow her heart
and realize her calling to be a writer.
Her first novel, Radiance: Love after XOXO
Publishing released Death in June of last year. Debra lives in North Carolina
close to the Blue Ridge Parkway and enjoys photography, volunteering and
spending time with her family. Her next book, Crimson Snow, her new paranormal
romance, will be released later this year.
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