Saturday, June 30, 2012

Just Being Neighborly ...



**** NOTE FROM AUTHOR:this piece is racy and graphic even for me, parental discretion advised ****









I cupped her breast over her cotton tank-top while we tongue kissed on the hill. Cars and people where everywhere. Her nipple started to get hard through the thin material and I felt it first on my palm, then the space between my index and ring fingers. I gently pinched it between my second knuckles.

She reached down, undid the fly of my jeans and pawed for my cock. Pretty soon we were going to be fucking like wild animals on this very spot, less than a block off High Street with Comfest pedestrians everywhere! I wasn’t going to stop her but did I really have the guts to go through with it? Lewd acts are always a fool’s earned, sure to get one caught on tape ... or worse, arrested!

With my free hand I clasped her petite ass cheek. Tight and firm. Being a larger than average man and her being a smaller than average women, my grip had room to spare. This seemed to turn her on very much. She rubbed herself against my leg with increased vigor and had my fully erect member out for all creation to see.

“My ass fits in your hand?!” she said with genuine surprise. I took my other hand off her tit and palmed the opposite cheek, squeezing a gentle conformation.

“I give, take me up-stairs and fuck me with this dick,” she said flopping my wang around like a hot dog.

“No problem,” I said as I put away my piece, taking care NOT to catch my erection in the zipper.

Guess it was finally going to happen with the neighbor girl. I stood up and slung her up onto my shoulder like a sack of dirty laundry. We had to use her key to get inside our building because mine was locked in my apartment. I grew impatient while she fumbled and jangled with the two-pound wad of metal on her key ring.

“Hurry up,” I said. She was still draped over my shoulder so I had to spin around so she was facing the door. After a couple tries we were in. The promise of copious amounts of sex was just two stair flights away.

“You can’t stay the night,” she chirped from her perch as I hoofed-it up the stairs. “Steven and me are on a break, and it’s probably over between us, but he’ll be back from Cleveland sometime tomorrow.”

Whatever, I thought. I’d worry about her significant other and getting into my own apartment later. I didn’t want to get into it just then. At this point I only had one thing on my mind and that was fornication.

In their bedroom I tossed her onto the bed like a kid tosses his book-bag after a long day at school, egger to get outside and play. I sat down beside her, began kissing the nape of her neck and then pulled her shirt over her head. Wonderful quarter-sized brown nipples seem to be staring at me like eyes. She pulled her jean-shorts and cotton panties off in one swift motion.  Her fair-skinned and tone body looked just as nice naked as I thought they would; the fruit of her strict running regiment. I admired the perky and symmetrical B cups before taking one into my mouth.

We began kissing again and she helped me with my pants and underwear. Pulling my t-shirt off, I lay back to enjoy the foreplay she’d already initiated on my shaft. I pulled her chestnut colored hair back into a ponytail held it in place while watching with a critical eye. She licked to the tip and then took 85% of it into her throat without gaging. Impressive.  After I could take it no longer, I sat up and laid her down on her back to start the main event. After I put on a condom I tested the waters by fingering her flower. She was already dripping wet, so I slid my dick in.

“Oooooo,” she cooed. “I’m so glad we’re neighbors.”

I had to smile. Couldn’t have said it better myself but before you go and condemn me know she’d been sniffing around my apartment for a looooong time, this despite living with her long-term boyfriend. There had been a few make-out sessions over the last three years, always initiated by her, with Steven drunk and passed out in their apartment upstairs. The kissing always ended with her a floor above me in bed with him and me alone in my bed below, masturbating my blue balls away.

Of course all things have a habit of coming to a head and our middle-school make-out romance was no exception. What was I supposed to do?! She obviously wanted something from me and it was only a matter of time before she got it. Comfest 2012 just so happened to be the night her craving was satisfied …


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Days were growing longer and hotter. Girls were out in next to nothing and the men were puffing their chests out, chasing them around the neighborhood like stray dogs in heat. Patios were open for drinking and the winter was a long forgotten memory. It was June in Columbus and that could only one thing: Comfest.

Short for community festival, it’s basically our towns’ version of a live music fest, with mostly local talent. Much to everyone’s delight the cops were known to look the other why for the weekend when it came to recreational drug use. Apparently even the Columbus Police Department has a little hippie in them. My droogs and I planned ahead and baked two pans of ganja brownies with a half-ounce of good mids in each batch. Throw in many beers and the casual puff of the more traditional joint and you have a recipe for a groovy time.

We were a block away from the Goodale Park, fest HQ for the next few days, when it really hit me. The high from eating laced baked goods is quite different to that of smoking. The tingling body-buzz starts in the stomach, similar to shrooms, minus the queasiness and awful after taste. It spreads outward to the extremities and finally the brain making stimuli cleaner, more intense. Even tapping my leg with my fingertips had a whole new feeling. I quickly realized I eaten way too much.

As soon as we merged into the throng of people I started laughing uncontrollably for no good reason at all. My friends did not get the joke and looked at me uncomfortable and nervous, high off their own respective asses. The laughing tickled my stomach which in turn made me laugh more and the vicious cycle continued.

“I’m sorry,” I managed to get out in-between chuckles. “It’s the edibles.” It was like a bad case of the hick-ups: no control.  Thinking about it only makes it worse.

I separated myself from the group, who didn’t understand what all the hubbub was about and got weird with it by myself under a tree for awhile. The groups smoking high volumes of dope around me, hiding in the shadows from all those things passing for people out there, understood me and understood sometimes you just have to freak-out alone. Once I had calmed down I wondered around the park and enjoyed the tunes while sipping beers. I only casually looked for my friends.

After several hours the party and my high had started to wind down but I had kept on with the sauce, downing one more over-sized beer. My phone had been on the fritz for a week, so I hadn’t bothered to bring it. I wished for at least the fiftieth time that I had already gone to the Sprint store. Walking back to my place I made plans to do just that the following day.

When I reached my build I came to the sudden realization that I’d also left my keys at home. In my stoned and drunk wisdom I’d figured I’d be with my roommate Tony and he had his key. Damn. So I sat my locked-out-no-cellphone-having-ass down on the small hill across the street to wait for my friends to get back … whenever the hell that would be.

After about ten minutes I looked up and saw her walking down High Street. Thoughts about how I’d privately admire her from my window, jogging down the block in her tight running gear, passed through my head. The perfectly even stride. The way her THO perked up through her spandex sports bra when she was sweating. The runners high euphoria on her face when she came to the finish line.

I thought about Steven. Remembered I’d had my tongue in his girlfriends’ mouth less than a month ago. How I almost had sex with her … but than all the sudden I didn’t, because women do that sometimes. Things had not been good between the two of them since before my roommate Tony and I had moved to the building three years ago. I know this because she told me about it--a lot. Also, we heard the occasional blow out screaming matches. Broken glass here and there and slammed doors a plenty.

She saw me when she was about a block away and I waved to her from my seat on the knoll. When she recognized me in the sea of people she waved back and crossed the street.

“Happy Comfest ,” she said. “What are doing out here, all by your lonesome?”

We began talking about our various fest related adventures. She’d met some girlfriends there to party and I explained why I was a moron (key) and how I was also high on weed brownies and drunk to boot. There was no hope for me! I got a playful smirk out of her and it was encouraging.

She looked younger than thirty-seven. She had a decent desk job down town for good pay and for seven years she had been living with a middle-aged, drunk, past his prime … piece of SHIT literature professor. Why?! Sure, he was a functioning alcoholic, but awful when fully inebriated. The type to get so plastered he’d forget his own name and yell at her for things that only drunk people yell about, like not returning a texts they forgot to send.

Tony and I would see him out at happy hour by himself. Often slouched in the corner, where the bar meets the wall, reading a book by Dostoevsky or someone else equally boring. He’d nod a brief sign of recognition and go back to what he was doing; always too cool say hello. On more than one occasion, he’d be so whiskey bent he couldn’t see more than five feet in front of his capillary-riddled nose. A week after we moved in we found him passed out in the common hall and we had to help him to his apartment after he managed to mumble out his unit number. She’d been mortified when she saw us coming up the stairs, one of his arms draped over each of our shoulders. That’s actually the first time I ever saw her.

The humidity made moister stick to her skin. I looked at the tiny drop of sweat hanging above her lip and I couldn’t stop myself from fantasying about how she’d look naked. We reminisced about the last time we’d hung out, at a small gathering in my apartment. My people are a fun loving bunch, to excess some might say and we are always welcoming. Even so, I told her we were all glad she hadn’t brought Stevie with her that night … especially me.

She had once before awhile back and it did not end well. He left after about an hour and got wasted all night God knows where, leaving her alone to wonder what had happened to him. That was the first night I ever made-out with her.

Last time we hung out the rest of the group had just ignored her, like the kid no one wants to sit with in the lunchroom for whatever reason. The “reason” for her was the constant negativity that radiated from her prescience, due in no small part to her terrible living arrangement. Regardless, she was a consummate pessimist and she also came off as condescending with her occasional failed attempts at sarcasm. Basically she was not the party favorite. Steve and her made a real power couple on the rare occasions they were actually out together.

During our current extended conversation I realized she really could be an awesome person when you talked to her one on one. We had some common ground. We both dug Interpol and I enjoyed her dark, quick-witted sense of humor. Of course I was still trying to get past second base, but I’m also intrigued by the outcast. Why am I expectable to people and others are not? Do they always bring the shunning onto themselves or is it situational? I could tell she didn’t mean to be a shrew she just came across that way. It also helped that I found her very attractive.

“Yeah, I’m sorry everyone was being so weird last time we hung out,” I said after a break in dialog. “But I think I know why. I mean, do you really have to be so negative all the time? It bugs my friends. Also, are the chippy comments always necessary?”

There was an awkward pause.

I often do that by mistake. Ask biting, even harsh questions that have been floating around in my head during conversation without taking time to judge how they will sound and feel to a recipient. I don’t do it to be cruel. I just don’t think sometimes. The words just popped right out of my mouth before I had filtered and softened them. Puts me in jackass territory I know, but we all have flaws and drugs and alcohol makes them more pronounced.

“I’m sorry,” I said. “I didn’t mean it like …”

“No, I’m sorry,” she interrupted in her familiar, scrupulous way. She was also a little drunk. “I don’t want to be pissed off and upset about Steven being such a piece of shit all the time! I don’t want to have to live with that and deal with it day in and day out. Would anyone?! To be honest I don’t care what your friends think about me but I don’t want YOU to think I’m a bitch.”

And there it was. A single tear swelled in one of her big brown eyes and then trickled down her powder-white cheek. Like kryptonite to Superman; I was powerless. If she wanted to play the sympathy card she would have my hand beat every time.

“Don’t worry,” I said and hugged her for reassurance. “I never did.” We kissed and laid back right where we were sitting. It didn’t take long for things to start heating up.


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After we fucked every which way, on again and off again for about three hours in a booze-fueled romp, she was spent. I was too for the most part but it didn’t stop me from rambling on and on about something or other until 5 am. About then I realized she was passed out and probably had been for some time. I sat up and appreciated her frame, rising and falling with her rhythmic breathing and thought about my situation. Both of us, naked as the day we were born, in a bed she shared with some poor bastard who had no idea I had just banged his lady. Time for me to go.

I covered her with the comforter and tried to make the bed look less sexed in. She said she cleaned herself up before he got home but it probably didn’t matter anyway. I’d flushed the condoms and was taking the wrappers with me. The rest could be explained away and I doubted Steven carried anyway based on what she had been telling me.  I got dressed with the birds chirping from a power line outside her window. Fuck! The hangover was already starting and I’d been up almost 20 hours straight. I would not be making it to Sprint today.

Tony had either been thoughtful enough (or wasted enough) to leave our door unlocked, but before making this discovery I admired the happy couple’s book collection. Just to be a dick I took their copy of Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Antichrist. It remembered a conversation I had with Steve about Nihilism. Probably the only real conversation we ever had. He was all about it and wouldn’t shut up about it. What a douche. I saw him in the hall a few days after the crime but if he ever knew anything about me taking the book, or the whole fucking his girlfriend thing, he never showed it. We went on being acquainted strangers.

She stuck to her guns and moved out of the building a week later. We tried to meet up once she got settled in temporarily with a friend but it never happened. By the end of the summer she planed to be in New York, taking a promotion she’d always been afraid to go after when she was with Professor Deadbeat. I planned to leave for Nashville in September out of sheer boredom so that was probably all she wrote for us … but we’d always have Comfest 2012.

If she’s reading this now, she should know I feel guilty about taking her copy of (so and so) … and a little bit about the other part too. At the very least I’d like to get the book back to her if I can but if it’s Steve’s I’ll just leave it at the bar. It’s the first place he’ll look.


-J.R.