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why women wanted to be so skinny, they were supposed to be soft and round with hips to hold onto. Who wanted to feel like you were lying next to a fourteen year old boy? Maybe that’s just me – I’m a big guy and I don’t want to feel like I am going to break the woman if I kiss her too hard. I want to have something to hold on to when I sink into her .  
    Birdie kissed the driver and the same thought popped into his mind again, Don’t kiss him… kiss me . He watched her do a little shimmy to straighten her dress and then bend to fix her shoe. I just want her under me, over me and beside me. She turned around and he got the full effect of all that was Birdie. She had a big smile on her face and her hair was down - she was soft and sexy. He could imagine the feel of her hair draped around him like a curtain and wondered what she tasted like.
    He felt light headed as he watched her walk towards him, Come here baby….come to me. Mark felt a tightening in his pants from just looking at her and thanked God for the jacket. He was a man with a lot of self-control so he willed his body to obey and was able to bring it all back down. That was until she started walking towards him and he saw her hips move in that rhythm women had. He felt sure he was going to get glimpse of something as the beading moved on her dress. As she got closer he realized the dress wasn’t completely sheer. He also noticed she didn’t look confident in her heels and appeared to be concentrating as she took each step.
    Birdie looked up, smiled and that’s when it happened. She tripped and almost fell right into him. He caught her around the waist and pulled her up against his chest. She looked up and laughed, “I almost made it. I was so close. But I looked up and saw you standing there and I got distracted.”  
    She straightened up and tried to pull away, but he didn’t release her. He bent over and whispered in her ear, “You looking amazing sweetheart - nice dress.” He noticed she smelled like lilacs and summer. He had no idea where that thought came from. But he would now associate the smell of lilacs with desire.  
    He pulled her in a little tighter and held her flush against his body. She was unable to respond right away, because her brain shut down. She felt all 6’3” inches of Mark’s muscular build and had the urge to settle in and stay a while. He smelled amazing, like soap and starch from his shirt and something else that was all him. She wanted to run her nose up his throat, I want him. That was the thought racing through her head. She snapped out of it and finally responded, “Thanks for the save.”  
    She straightened up and patted his broad chest, “Thanks again.” They stood on the lawn in a semi embrace, staring at each other with people moving around them, not moving. She could feel all his intensity and focus when she was this close to him. It was contradicted by the very easy smile on his face. She could also feel the mutual attraction that was happening between them - it felt like an arc of electricity. She wondered if anyone else noticed what was happening between them.
    Finally he released her and took her hand in his. She looked down at their clasped hands and felt a line of electricity run up her arm. Was he feeling anything, because it felt like everything to her?
    Mark liked the feeling of her small hand in his. It felt like it was supposed to be there. “Can I walk you to your seat? I want to protect you from all of the men who are going to be staring at you in your naked dress.”  
    “This isn’t a naked dress - it just looks like it. I’m not flashing anything, it’s not even short.”  
    Mark shook his head, “Nope - it is a naked dress. Every man here is just hoping for a shift of those beads for a little glimpse.” He put his hand on the small of her back and guided her towards where the ceremony was going to take place.  
      Birdie stopped at the center aisle for a moment and tilted her