I stare at it from across the room; cock my head and look at it sideways. I even kneel down, squint my eyes tight, and twist my chin this way and that before finally shaking my head in confusion. “Nope. I don’t see it. Like, at all.”
“Sh’right there!” Cassie yelps with a slur.
“You’re telling me, with a straight fucking face, you see a vagina in that bean bag chair?”
“Mhmm. Right there! Clear as day. Look.”
Cassie wobbles over to where the salacious apparition is supposedly on display. With careful precision so as not to disturb even one styrofoam microbead, she waves her hands, palms facing each other, making two parallel lines over the corduroy casing.
“See? Pussy lips!” she says unsteadily bent-over, looking back at me with a licentious grin.
In a mock-serious move, I fold one arm across my tits and bring the other to my lips as if analyzing a masterpiece at the Getty Center.
“Okay. I can maaaybe make out a clit?” I stifle a giggle. “I'm sorry, you know I love you, and we’re wasted, but there’s no way that crease looks like pussy.”
“Pshh.” Cassie flops onto the fluffy chair. “Y’know,” she thrusts a fanned-out hand straight up as if attempting to quiet the room. “When Todd was shopping for this schtupid bean bag he tried to convince me we needed it because it was so big.”
“Think of all the movie-nights we’ll have all snuggled up in our bean bag built for two,” he’d said.
“I’m not an idiot. I know he only wanted it so he’d have something comfy for those endless hours of gaming with his full-grown lil buddies.”
“Then… why the hell is it rainbow-colored?” I ask.
“Power of my pussy. I knew he was bullshitting me. Bean bag built for two...pssh. So now, while he blows up aliens or whatever, he can sit in his little rainbow cloud and think of me.”
“Has it been christened yet?”
“What, like peed on?! Jesus, Dar you’re sick.”
“No,” I reply laughing. “Sex. Have you and Todd ever fucked in it?”
“Nah. He’s a fucking prude, that one. I swear if we ever end up married–”
She’s still waving her hand through the air as she goes on playfully bashing her boyfriend, but I zone out staring at her legs. The skirt she’s wearing rides up as she sinks deeper into the oversized bag. She has amazing legs, the kind that make supermodels take notice.
I’ve always had a crush on Cassie. We grew up together. Same neighborhood, same grade school, same high school. Pea-pod-sisters that drifted apart after graduation. Cassie went on to the University of San Francisco, but I stayed home to work for my mom at her boutique in San Clemente.
I remember when she returned home the summer after freshman year, I could tell she was in love, just not with me. But, there is something inherently sexy about her affection for Todd.