“Good morning. How are you feeling?” I genuinely asked, as Christy emerged from her drunken slumber, finding me in the kitchen cooking breakfast.
“What the fuck is that supposed to mean?” she snapped back with a precarious look on her face.
“Well, you got shit-faced last night. Guessing you might be hurting a little bit this morning.”
“Does that have anything to do with why your fucking boxers were on the floor next to my bed? What the fuck happened last night, Bo?”
Normally, this is the type of situation that I would be licking my chops over. The better you know someone, the easier it is the fuck with them. And the more potential a particular situation offers, the funnier it can be. Christy was about to have a mental breakdown, and I was just handed a silver platter of absolute hilarity.
However, the reality of the moment was too heavy, and this wasn’t something to fuck around with. Discarding the idiomatic box of gold in my grasp, I looked deep into her eyes, now welling with concern, and told her the truth.
“Nothing.”
Exhaling a sigh of deep relief, she threw her arms around me and fell into my chest. “Oh God, thank you, thank you, thank you,” she professed, “and I wasn’t questing you, just so you know, I was questioning me.”
Returning the hug, and now back on safe ground, resisting was no longer necessary. “And question yourself you should.” I immediately followed up, “You were begging for it last night.”
“What?” she exclaimed, releasing our hug, “No way. Really?”
“Oh yeah, and you are a dirty little girl when you’re drunk. You were pleading with me, ‘I want your cock in my ass, Bo, fuck my ass, it won’t count. I’ll suck your cock good if you pound my ass with it first. Come on, do me, do me, do me.’ You’re lucky I am such a gentleman and only shoved my thumb up it a couple times. Want some bacon?”
“You dick,” Christy wittingly shot back as she tossed the pair of boxers she had been holding my way. “But seriously, thank you.”
“You’re welcome, but seriously, I don’t do laundry; remember?” I half-jokingly said, tossing the boxers back at her. “Well, I gotta get to work, and looking at this kitchen, so do you. See ya.”
“Yes sir!” she said with just enough sarcasm to make anyone else who might have heard, think it was said tongue in cheek. That is part of her defense mechanism. Christy is known for being a defensive, quick-tempered, take no shit type a chick, but that is merely a façade she puts up to hide her true, submissive nature. Few people know this about her; but I realized as soon as she moved in. I don’t know if it was out of trust, or necessity that she abandoned her façade around me, but she did. She still hands me the TV remote when I enter the room, ensures the house is in order without mention, and you can bet your bottom dollar that those boxer shorts will be clean and folded when I get home. Only when others are around does her guard go up, and she knows she has to keep it up. Because once that submissive cat is out of the bag, she can’t put it back in.
House looked great when I got home. No evidence of my morning breakfast creation and a small stack of crisply folded clothes sitting on my bed, a particular pair of Mack Weldon boxer shorts right on top. I just need to take care of some bills another responsibility-free weekend could begin. Just as I was logging out of my financial app, my attention turned to the list, seeing that I had left it out on the desk amongst some bank statements. Usually, I only see the list when I pull it out of the drawer to add a name or check one-off, a genuinely positive experience. Most lists, people are trying to complete, the more items that are checked off the better. But those are ‘To-Do Lists’, used to indicate completing undesirable tasks. I considered mine a ‘Get-To-Do List’, and was most happy about it the night I passed it off as the roster of a softball team that I was coaching to some random chick that I had brought home. Looking at it now, there’s not much that I get to do.
With the effort I had been putting into marking Christy off the list, I hadn’t been spending much time adding to it. That, coupled with the fact that the last two additions to the waitstaff were dudes, it was slim. Aside from Christy, only two others remained, Nikki and Susie, and Nikki had moved to Florida about a year ago. I kept her on the list thinking she would get tired of the brutal humidity and the jackass that hauled her down there. But it was time to face facts, one had finally gotten away, and instead of a checkmark, my usually lucky pen drew a thick red line through Nikki’s name. All of sudden, the list was down to two, Christy and, ‘Little Susie’, as she appeared on it.
Susie was a compact and adorable ball of energy. I had known her longer than any of the others, but she didn’t get added to the list until more recently. I had just moved to town from Michigan and I noticed her and her then-boyfriend getting out of a VW van with licenses plates from back home. I introduced myself and discovered that they had just recently moved to town as well. They were a great couple, that rare type that just looks like they should be together. She was maybe five feet tall with a baby doll face, perma-smile and high cheekbones. Her tiny frame made perfectly proportioned, not thick, not thin, round in all the right areas and spunky. Just an absolute cutie. But she was already with the right guy, and the three of us became good friends. Hell, I even went to their wedding. I never even considered adding her to the list; that is, until a mutual friend at the bar told me that they were getting divorced.
“Ah man, that’s too bad. I always considered them to be the ideal couple,” responding earnestly, as I finished off a bottle of pale ale. “Ah, that’s a damn good beer. Hey, do you know if she spells her name with a ‘Y’ or ‘IE’ at the end?”
Anyway, I needed to back off from the Christy hunt and meet some new women. I decided that I would go hit the clubs that night, after a pre-game warmup at my usual bar of course. Suzy goes there once in a blue moon, worth a shot. It was Friday night; I liked my chances.
As usual, my local hangout offered nothing more than the magnificently-breasted bartender who had heard all my best one-liners already. There was a band setting up, so maybe I would swing back later. After downing a couple of beers while chatting with some locals, I was ready for a change of scenery. Waiting for my tab, I saw the front door of the bar open, and in walked a particular lady looking about the room as if maybe she had the wrong address. Then our eyes met, and I am sure that mine grew wide and bright exactly the way hers did. When she continued straight to the barstool next to me and we greeted each other, I changed my plans for the night. It wasn’t until much later that I realized it also changed my life forever.
Her name is irrelevant, her appearance you could probably piece together, and why she walked in that bar, on that night, at that exact time, means nothing to anyone, except me.
She was a person that I hadn’t seen in over ten years. And while we never got the chance to know each other well in the past, there was always that thing, that spark, that undeniable, yet indescribable vibe between us. We both knew it. I never made it to the club that night, or ever for that matter. She was as surprised to see me as I her, but we sat and talked for hours. Not to catch up or reminisce, but to finally get to know one another. I didn’t end up with any new names for the list that night, but I did get a phone number, and with it, a new girlfriend.
It was about a month into our relationship when she headed to a family reunion out of state. I had been spending a lot of my free time at her house instead of the bar. So, having a Friday night to myself, I decided to head downtown to the bar and see what I had been missing. Walking in from the parking lot, I ran into a familiar face, and was honestly more amused than anything by the irony of it. I hadn’t even thought about the list since that fateful night a month earlier. I hadn’t cared about it.
“Hey Susie, long time no see.”
She was standing just outside the bar smoking a cigarette, talking to a guy that looked to be at least ten years younger. She was as cute as ever, but I didn’t have the desire, or the energy, to doggedly pursue an elusive piece of ass anymore. Besides, it looked like she already had company for the evening.
“Oh my God, Bo! I have missed you so much. You look great!” she replied while reaching up for a big hug and quick kiss on the lips. “Guess what day it is?”
“Friday?”
“It’s my birthday.”
“Well happy birthday, sweetie,” I told her while still embraced in her arms, catching the scent of a few cocktails, “What are you doing for your big day?”
“Looking for someone to take me home and fuck the shit out of me.” Her voice now soft and sultry, and her jovial expression replaced with a skull probing stare as she said it.
She was dead fucking serious. The guy I had assumed she was with, casually snuffed out his smoke and walked inside.
“Who was that?” I asked, not taking my eyes from hers.
“He’s just a friend,” she confirmed, her deep gaze easing only slightly, “he just came down to buy me a birthday drink.”
My mind began to have thoughts outside of my immediate surroundings, away from the here and now of the situation I was in. Sometimes you just have to listen to your inner self, and respond accordingly after considering both the possibilities and future ramifications of your immediate actions.