floating

Rachel smiled at the various diplomats chatting in the lobby as she pressed the UP elevator button, scanning the room in the mirrored surface of the wall. "Good", she thought. "They haven’t noticed yet." Why this was so, she wasn’t quite sure since she was the only brunette at the reception wearing a clingy red cocktail dress. Then again, her supervisor did say during the mission briefing that Elbonian security wasn’t exactly the best or the brightest. Even so, the buffoons had managed to secure every exit. There simply was no way she was getting out through the front entrance.

“A little more to the left Kamiko!” Tomoko yelled.

“How much?” Kamiko replied.

“When I tap you, that is when you stop!”

The mid-morning sun shined brightly down upon the bamboo forest surrounding the abandoned temple. Nobody would suspect that something was going on within, unless the occupants decided to come out.

Suddenly the two large screen doors lazily open up, pushed open by the middle-aged lady who lived within. She looked outwards from the steps of the temple momentarily, admiring the serene environment around her.

“My, it’s a good thing I found you today Kamiko. I’ve never seen such a beautiful day today.

We had just finished making love. That wonderful feeling of exhaustion mixed with elation seemed to fill the room. My thoughts flowed together with his. Our emotions mingled; we reveled in each other's bliss. My body felt like it was wafting on a breeze, slowly rocking back and forth, weightlessly wandering.

"I feel like I'm floating", I said.

My imagination wandered; the bedroom dissolved around me.

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