The Empty Chair #18 - (Valentine Special)[Prompt - lace]

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lace

However his feet branched by Claire’s, the recently moved-in neighbor he had just acquainted, Jack knew he should have been on his way home to deliver his wife the valentine gift.
Just to say Hi, he told himself but now here was, sat on the only other chair in the room, and there she was sat across…
Some words passed between them for a while, but they only got fewer, and fewer.
From the neighbors’, the lyrics of a popular melody filtered in…
He knew it was time to leave, why was he still stuck here? He quarreled within himself.
Wind was blowing in through the window, Claire stood up for the first time, to go and shut it…
Now he knew why, or was it, had confirmed why he was still stuck here instead of delivering the groceries to his wife…
Claire’s curves, the shape of her silhouetted against the walls, like an art painting….the transparent lace tight against her chest, revealing her fullness, her curves…
His heart pumped, volumes surged…he heard the dab-dup, almost physically against his chest, as the cogs of his heart peddled on each in anticipation.
Jacks breathing intensified as Claire returned…
She was edging back toward her seat, when the just lit candle died out…was it the wind? The breathing? Accidental? Was an invitation?
“You look perfect” he whispered, unaware he was syncing Ed Sherans’s hit.
She laughed, whispered in her breath: “can you even see me?”
That was when he noticed how close she was standing…

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