A Long Distance Love Affair

by Mary-Ellen McLean

  Your Chariette

  Dear Beautiful Sexy One

  I was just eating a lovely fresh plum and it made me think of you..so sweet in my mouth, so firm and fleshy and juicy.... quite a delight really...Needless to say I would enjoy eating you just now...

  I relish the feel of you, the taste of you, the look of you, oh just everything about you delights me so. All of my senses awaken and arouse at the thought of you...

  I can't explain why you have such an effect on me. I just know that it is so strong and immediate and that I am a complete slave to your charms.

  I think I'll go and have another plum....

  Chariette

  Dear Chariot

  I am very pleased to know that you are eating such healthy food. No wonder you taste delicious! Your catalogue of berries et al made me think of how I would love to share a Caravaggio type feast with you one day with no words spoken other than messages conveyed by our eyes and faces as we fed each other...culminating in great sex of course!

  Hmmm...that would be VERY lovely.

  Juicy Fruit

  Oh My Prince

  I woke this morning with such incredible ACHING longing for you... Oh how it would make my heart sing to see your sunny smile!

  I would love to be pleasuring you just now and for you to be pleasuring me. It's so hard for me when my head is full of you but my body is not...I so love it when you penetrate me. That is such a wonderful feeling of closeness and completeness and acceptance.

  How am I ever going to get through this weekend??? I'd better go and scrub out the bathroom or something....

  Chariette

  Hello Handsome

  Wonderful to hear from you tonight!

  I've been so rushed off my feet today I didn't even have time to check my horoscope so I've just gone in to see what kind of day I've had....I don't think I could see any even remote connection with the prediction and how it turned out! I hope you're having a pleasant and relaxing evening. You sounded a bit jaded on the phone. Just try to think of me doing pleasurable things to you and it might help to raise your spirits. I just have to think of your face and it raises mine! Then to think of your body and all the wonderful things you do to me makes me soar. You have brought my life such happiness...it's been oh just wonderful having this contact with you. I have come to the conclusion that I would be at a loss without it. I confess - I need you. My inner life...my soul...would be so reduced without you....

  I am reading Joyce's 'Ulysses' at the moment which is a 1000 page rambling stream of consciousness narrative about all the connected and unconnected thoughts passing through the main character's brain in the span of just one day. It helps me to go to sleep.....

  Your mutely (or not so mutely) craving Chariette

  Dear Divine One I came home to bed this afternoon to try to get better in hopeful hopeful hopeful anticipation of tomorrow evening. Have only just got up to have some soup and will probably go back again soon. My tastebuds appear to have stopped functioning (but not the use of my tongue...) and I'm not looking too flash just now....will have to perform miracles tomorrow.

  It was so wonderful to hear from you today. When you ring from your office you sound so close and clear and oh so sexy. I love your down-to-earthness....the contemplation of a pie for lunch was a lovely touch. I don't know why it is but pretty well everything you do and say charms me and brings pleasure to my life. I love being connected with you (and cavorting with you needless to say).

  Let's hope it works out tomorrow night. You will be more warmly welcomed than you could ever imagine. But if it doesn't you've pleased me by trying anyway.

  Hopeful Chariette

  Dear Chariot

  You've got to stop eating pies!! Or at least go for the ones with a lot of steak and kidney and liver.... Please nurture my temple.....

  You are very adorable to look at. I loved touching your hands and everything else. It was wonderful being with you. Missed kissing you though.

  You continue to thrill me and I continue to just totally utterly adore you.

  Chariette

  Dear Hot Pants

  I’m dying to see you in your new clothes and dying more to take them off of you….oh those buttons and fiddly bits are so exciting…like an obstacle course to the prize!!

  I’ve been like a well oiled working machine the past couple of weeks (with a runny nose problem). Sometimes I wonder what the hell I’m doing and why. There’s so much to be done all the time – who sets these bloody deadlines anyway?? There’s a deadline monster somewhere who has us all running a ridiculous race for nothing. I’m so looking forward to getting away for a while and walking the streets of Lisbon. It will be full summer there and I suspect rather hot. Will it be the same for you in New York as well?

  Oh I would love to be with you just now… it was so good to hear from you tonight. I’m full of longing for you at the moment…oh just aching for you really.

  I hope you’re still keen on me…I’m very keen on you…oh poor me! Poor me!! What am I to do??

  Chariette

  Dear Heart

  Wonderful to talk to you tonight. You sounded just great.

  I've just finished watching the Girl with the Pearl Earring. It was good you were right. It was very painterly and there was also a lot of sexual tension there. I enjoyed recognising buildings in Delft that I had seen there and the canals. It was a truly lovely city and so old. There were some wonderful restaurants everywhere there along the canals. I had some enjoyable meals there with colleagues. I recall on the last Sunday I was there I was walking around the streets and it was cool but sunny and the Church bells were playing tunes. I was so delighted I called home so they could hear it too.

  I find you very delightful too...so appealing...so tantalizing...so...so....ohhh. I am hook, line and sinkered for you. And I bet you look just irresistible in your new specs. Can't wait to see you.

  Wish my hands were exploring your lovely body now. Wish my lips were seeking you out. Wish we were moving together in rapturous harmony. We play a good tune together when we get the rhythm right! You're the song on my mind and the tune on my lips. You're the symphony in my soul...Wish you could play me just now....

  Chariette

  Dear Working too Hard

  Well I just love it here in Lisbon! We had a walking tour of the old town yesterday afternoon and it is just lovely. It is in places a bit reminiscent of Paris (not as majestic though), but the housing is very similar with the cast iron balconies and the close buildings one upon the other. It's very hilly with views to the sea (I think it's the sea or a very big river)....and the Lisboans love to come out and socialize in the cafes. A group of us had dinner in one of the local restaurants. I had sardines (very big ones!) as they are the local dish and a vile wine called sangria I think, served with ice cubes and lemon in it. Apparently the social life starts up after 11.00pm every night but we were too tired to stay much after that. There were people everywhere and music. It was very lively and enjoyable. And the coffee is GOOD!

  It was lovely getting your text message. I'm having a good time but you're not far from the centre of my consciousness most of the time. Wish I could be sharing the experience with you. I'd love to be kissing your beautiful face just now (and other things as you might well imagine). Wish you were working hard on me just now and that we were heading into injury time!

  Chariette

  My dear, dear Chariot

  I woke very early this morning and filled in the time finishing a book I have been reading, and I am in a very moved state just now. It is the latest Pulitzer Prize winning book called "March" by Geraldine Brooks who is an Australian journalist and it is set in the American Civil War. It covers all the terrible terrible cruelties inflicted on people in those times and the heart wrenching sorrows and unbelievable sufferings of the slaves both at the hands of their oppressors and of the southern (and northern) troops. I am feeling very teary just now... But it was also about families and what holds them together a
nd the terrible dilemmas we face sometimes about them and the deep longings we all have to love and be loved and be on deeply trusting intimate human terms with one another and the terrible suffering that can ensue when we realize this is never likely to be.

  I am feeling very very guilty about wanting you so much. You cannot know how much I live for your words, for your contact and how it troubles me that I do. I know I am intruding on your life and I know that I shouldn't be but oh I just can't help myself. Forgive me my ardour for you, my lust, my selfish wantingness....I am feeling very ashamed just now.

  Anna

  Dear Chariot

  Thankyou for your lovely words. You probably fathomed what dire need I have of you.... I need to be careful about the books I read when I'm alone and vulnerable...sorry for the outpouring! But it moved me so much and made me think of things so much and how much I wish our circumstances could be different....

  I wish so very much that you were here. I could do with one of your lovely hugs.

  The conference finished at lunch time so I have spent the afternoon in Lisbon itself walking and walking and sitting and watching. It's truly a lovely place. It has an air of decadent decay about it and you really have a sense of a fallen past empire. The buildings are cracked and in need of paint and there's not a plant to be seen anywhere, but there's such a charm about it. I'm sure you would like it too. What I love about European cities is the over-the-top monuments to past glories. They are so extravagant and extreme and so glorious. I wish I knew a bit more of the language so I could read what they were celebrating. I'd also like to be able to recognise plaques on buildings commemorating famous people who lived there but I haven't been able to fathom any of that. I walked up and down (literally - it's hilly here) many many little streets wondering where Byron and Shelley spent their time and what it was that inspired them about the place.

  I had a coffee in the oldest Lisboan cafe - "La Brasiliera" - It was in a delightful street and was the first place in Lisbon to start importing coffee from Brazil. They serve it very strong in tiny cups and offer up a lot of sugar to make it palatable. I haven't found the art galleries yet. I plan to do that tomorrow and there's a castle ruin on the top of a hill that I'm going to explore as well.

  Sorry again for the outpouring this morning. You are a good friend to me and I feel I can turn to you though.

  I think of you sleeping just now, lying on your back with your right arm raised above and cradling your head. How I would love to lay my body down beside you, to feel my feet overlapping yours in joyous intimate touch, the length of our thighs touching, my arm around your belly, my head on your chest, your arm around my back. Oh what bliss that would be.

  I'm off for a very needed bath now......

  Chariette

  Dear Chariot

  Thankyou for your call! Sorry I was a bit non compis mentis there for a few seconds. Thankyou for your care (you are such a lovely man!) and you can wake me up anytime! It's always bliss to hear from you.

  I'm feeling a lot better today after yesterday's 'crise d'émotion' and sorry to have dragged you into it, but you're my confidante and it means so much to me to be able to share my feelings with you and know that you'll understand. My acute emotional state really brought it home to me that luxurious surroundings and the beautiful trappings of life have a hollow ring to them if there's no one to share your inner world with. And it was reinforced later as I was sitting observing the bourgeois of Portugal in the upmarket cafés, I saw that obviously well heeled couples had absolutely nothing to say to each other. They were hardly even looking at each other. Their thick gold necklaces, coiffured hair, manicured nails (and that was just the men....) did not seem to be filling the empty vacuum of their relationships. And oh how I wanted to be with you just then, to see your smiling face and to smile back at you and to reach out and touch you.

  Hope you're managing to have a relaxing weekend. Thank you again for your call. It meant a lot to me. Wish I could be thanking you in ways we both enjoy....

  Chariette

  My Lovely Charmer

  I woke with such wanting of you this morning...such desire, such longing I could have burst with it....

  I've just had dinner of tomatoes on toast and a glass of Portuguese Ginginha (a kind of cherry brandy that everyone seemed to drink all the time..they had special stalls and bars everywhere). The dog is at my feet, Domingo is singing to me beautifully and the full moon is filling the darkness of the window. If only you could be here with me on my kitchen table...(well me on the table actually....) a Ginginha kiss would be especially arousing.

  I'm looking forward this evening to Dickens' Bleak House on TV. I hope you have a lovely evening. I'm so thinking of you.

  Chariette

  Dear Terrific Texting Thumb

  Wonderful to hear from you last night. You were very textually demanding mind you!! I hope you will be just as demanding in the flesh when we're together (SOOOOONNN!!)

  I hope you had a good trip back and managed to get in some work. My body is aching for you just now. I would like to put that thumb of yours to some alternate use...

  Chariette

  Oh My Prince!

  Our trysting time is nigh! It will be so wonderful to see you again and to be in your company. I'm so excited I don't know how I'll sleep tonight. You thrill me! I'm looking forward to discovering your body anew, to touching your beautiful hands, to listening to your lovely sonorous voice, to kissing your beautiful face, to gazing on your luscious thighs, to stroking your chest...oh there won't be enough time to do all that I would like to do.

  I have been practising with great devotion.....(the poses that is).

  Looking forward to being oiled by you and enjoying the wonderful sensation of slipping flesh.

  Your adoring Chariette

  Dear Handsome One

  I had a bit of a spending weekend...the book on Saturday and then another two books (another one for me and one for one of my princelings) and a 6 CD set of Mozart. I've played two of them so far. It's the 200th anniversary of his death (or birth I'm not sure really) this year. He's one of my favourite composers. When you listen to music experts speak about his compositions they really speak in such glowing and reverent terms of his genius and originality. I'm not in any regard anything like an expert when it comes to musical composition, but what I like about his work is the joyfulness of it, the spirited life of it and the fact that you can follow the tune. I just can't imagine how he juggled all those parts in his head for all the different instruments and then brought them all together in pieces that have such internal harmonies and consistencies. He has them making love to each other.

  Speaking of which.....yes you guessed it...I would very much like to be the viola to your violin!

  Hope you've had a stimulating happy day.

  Thinking of you

  The First Movement of Chariette

  Fast Chariot

  Yes I'll make sure I'm free. When you get a sense of time you'd like me to arrive (as opposed to come) I will book. Expecting a lot of coming on both our parts.....

  Enjoy Sydney tomorrow. Hope you can catch up on some work on the plane.

  Very much looking forward to your embraces.

  Chariette

  Dear Chariot

  Your intentions are very pleasing, but I fear the lateness of our assignation will prevent us from achieving all plans...

  I will consider the evening a success if:

  1. You make mad and passionate love to me at least twice (I will leave the positions to your choosing..all of them please me)

  2. You say some kind things to me (lie if you have to...)

  3. You are in the moment with me

  Plans not achieved this time will just have to be put on hold till next time.

  Expectant Chariette

  Dear Chariot

  I hope you are having a peaceful relaxing evening in anticipation of the holiday tomorrow. I am neither peaceful nor relaxed and will want tomorrow to va
nish quickly so that my most longed for day - Thursday - will have arrived at last! I have had to banish thoughts of you, the feel of you, the touch and sight of you from my mind several times today which has been very difficult. I was thinking this evening of the first time I came to you in Sydney. How you met me at the taxi outside and how you kissed me in the street. How lovely that memory is to me. You have given me a lot of lovely memories....

  I hope you have a lovely day tomorrow. Rest up!! Preserve yourself for me!!!! I will be my usual demanding self...