Laughter is what drew me first to him, aside from the quirkiness he portrays, both at and away from the piano.
There is nothing better than lying in bed with someone and laughing. Something that I haven’t experienced with someone in a long time.
We climbed into bed late at night and lay there talking, facing each other. He reached over to pull me close and I pulled back and grinned.
“Sing me a song!”
Without hesitation, he started singing Andy Kim’s “Rock Me Gently”…after the first verse, he stopped, thinking it was enough.
“Keep going” I demanded. “Finish it.”
The greatest thing is that he did.
He lay there in bed, next to me, with a priceless look on his face, singing “Rock Me Gently”, chorus and all, with soul, with pizazz and hand gestures.
At 1 in the morning.
When he was done he goes “You’re making me sing for my supper, aren’t you?”
Yes. Yes I am.
Now, he seems to save the song at his evening gigs, for after I arrive.
I got a little bossy the next day, when we had a conversation about the things men are and aren’t comfortable doing, for fear of portraying a lack of manliness to others.
We took a shower and I handed him my razor and the shaving cream.
“Are you man enough to shave my legs?”
And so, he did.
Good thing he didn’t cut me, I was laughing so hard, I was shaking.
I had my nail polish sitting out on the counter in the kitchen. I pointed to the polish and put my leg up over his, handed him the bottle…he opened it and started painting my toes.
He’s got these wide piano man hands, that were all awkward and clumsy with a nail polish brush. The frustration and murmurings under his breath that came out of his mouth in the following fifteen minutes (yes, it took him that long) as he tried painting my toes a hot red color (he picked), most of it ended up all over my skin, some on his leg and ALL over his hands. I led him to believe there was no way to get the red polish off his hands except just “time”…alot of “time”.
Imagine the panic in his face when he thought he’d be playing a gig that night with red nail polish all over his fingers..
Movin' Down the Road 