Girl Number Seventeen, Part One

August 8, 2009 in Certain Things I Have Done

I’m telling you about some of the women I’ve had sex with. For some reason I prefer to give them a number – rather than a fake name – in order to protect both our identities. I like calling them “Girl” because I find it sweet and it turns me on.

This story is about Girl Number Seventeen.

Girl was hot and I don’t think many people caught it.

If you didn’t spend the time getting to know her you’d have thought her immensely shallow. Get a couple of drinks or five down her rather shapely neck, she’d open up and talk deep. Sometimes she’d cry. Talk about her rather sexless marriage. I knew her husband’s name before she told me.

She had an incredible figure, but hid it like David Copperfield would if all he had as props were shapeless pantsuits. Girl had maybe D cups with some beautiful gradients if you looked closely while being wise about it. A gently-curving stomach. A Curvy ass underneath the most mediocre of materials. None of what I’d ever seen her in had done her any justice. We were working together and I got a lot of time to check her out because I have testicles.

While she was busy.

Because I have testicles.

Quick glances over her, finding the details, because I have testicles. The way her breasts dangled when she bent over because I have testicles. Her ass and seriously visible panty line when she was reaching for something while atop a ladder Because I Had Testicles.

The Ladder Moment was a Moment, Indeed.

That was before Everything Else happened. But The Ladder Moment is indelible, linked to What Happened Afterwards with the two of us. That was the first Real Moment I felt just like slowly reaching out and grabbing her by the hips from behind. Gently. Strong, and persistent. Spreading my thumbs slowly. Running them over the cheeks of her ass in those now-not-so-terrible pants. Feeling her stiffen for a second, body gone prone. Frozen. All those emotions running through her mind in an instant while I’m behind her taking my chance and gently feeling her ass because enough was enough and dammit I Have Testicles And They have made my mind up -

Yeah. I’d been finding her increasingly attractive.

She’d let slip when drunk one time that she wasn’t Getting Enough (if Any) from her husband whose name I already knew. Now – here I am, at the bottom of a ladder and experiencing what I’d refer to later as “The Ladder Moment” – looking up at her beautiful ass – cock now rock-hard – and because then I realized that

because I have testicles

the testicles had told me that the Gods had spoken and that the time was now and my testicles were not in the mood for accepting no as an answer. No sir.

I never did, though.

Touch her, I mean. I didn’t.

Not then.

I just stared at her ass, her shoulder blades through her blouse, her ankles. Just took in the view for around 10 long, beautiful seconds. Cock throbbing away – enjoying the illicit proximity of it all. I just stared. Girl, from behind, was art. Damn.

Fast forward weeks. A month. We’re still working together, running a project in tandem, we’re both managers, equals, with 20 others under us together. We spend a fair bit of time together. Dry meetings which we both have to attend. I discover that Girl’s obviously shy. That Girl’s got a dry, cynical humor of her own. Girl no longer comes across as sour. I genuinely warm to Girl, but I’ll be honest – I’m a man, I wouldn’t be sitting listening to Girl moaning if Girl didn’t get my cock twitching which was becoming sometimes nearly regular now. Also – Girl thought herself as “plain”!

It was only as true as much as she believed it was.

Because Those Eyes. That Figure. Girl didn’t smile much, which was a shame. Because it felt nice to make her smile now. I mean – I don’t mind the serious look. The I’ve Got The Blues Look. Girl had a Serious I’ve Got The Blues Look. But making her smile was worthwhile.

Fast-forward to this;

late Friday night in a bar somewhere.

The rest of our team have gone home, mostly drunk. Girl and I have drank them off and Girl can hold her drink. I mean, she’s slurring her words sometimes, but Girl is cogent. And open – I’ve seen her drunk like this a couple of times, sitting there, staring into space for 30 seconds before re-joining the group conversation. I like seeing her like that, fixated on something rattling in her mind, because her face relaxes and she goes an interesting type of blank. Girl’s looking at the floor with those big brown eyes of hers flashing in the gloom. Sometimes Girl smiles like this. And at some of the things I say. I like that. Girl more laughs-than-smiles at some of the things I say when I say them – but when I see Girl smile like that, I know I hit a real nerve somewhere inside her. Then I smile.

Well – Girl’s Crying. I don’t realize this for a while mostly because I’m a man. She’s talking openly about her husband. How crap their marriage is. I agree with silence. Just let her get it out. She looks good in profile, Little Miss Big Brown Eyes. Her hair – which she never does anything with and which I kinda admire – is tucked behind her ear. A strand comes loose – her head is lowering and she’s confessing to the floor because gravity effects everything more when you’re down and she flicks the strand of hair behind her ear and

My heart leaps into my mouth. My cock stiffens immediately against my thigh and I’m glad it’s dark under the table.

But

She needs a hug for real. I’m lost, confused, direction-less in this moment and she’s beginning to show actual fucking tears and here I am with my cock hardening and my heart-pounding in my ears and damn I somehow have to do the right thing. Girl deserves that for a change.

I go into friend mode without realizing it and reach out slowly, put my arm around her shoulders. A solid grip from my hand. I pull her closer, but not too much. The bar is busy, but the chatter is gone now. I’m surprised how genuine and non-sexual my hug is. My hand stays there. She’s gone silent. My grip is still solid, but I loosen it. Intensity is all well and good in a moment - sometimes it’s not terribly reassuring if you continue it beyond a certain period of time (this rule has just popped into my head as I write this in retrospect) and the time lapses and I loosen my grip and keep my hand there, around her shoulders. It feels natural and easy and correct. Girl was birthing some crocodile tears. Just because I’m a very naughty boy doesn’t mean I’m sometimes not a very good man.

My hand lies there. She’s stopped crying. Or talking. She just looks at the floor. I look away from her. I just want to be someone hugging her for a while. My cock softens, the sensation of it’s existence from a lifetime ago.

I look straight ahead in silence. Don’t really see anyone, anything. Hear anyone, anything. There is only the comfort I feel with my arm around her shoulders. My hand had been left there because time itself had somehow stood still and it would have seemed rude to start moving anything, anywhere. The laws of physics changed in my head.

I stayed in that moment for a couple of eternities a second then came out of my daze. Girl was still in hers. Maybe more drunk than I was and I was fairly drunk and girl could hold her drink but she’s hit a wall and

my arm is still there, and I look at her, the hair tucked behind her cute little ear her chin her left cheekbone her neck her neck looks good her little double-chin thing which is so cute just scanning her. Seconds pass. These are not glances any more – I’m seeing all of her, every minutiae, with abandon and Girl is what I’m drinking now. Every little thing about the woman I’ve got my arm around I drink down like she’s the first beer, after work, on a hot and shitty day. I’m reminded by myself that the contact with her feels good. My Hug still feels right. I’ve got no idea how long my arm has actually been around her could be hours days doesn’t matter then

I finally see her eyes. Those Big Brown Eyes. They look dark in the light of the bar. Tears have been slowly rolling. Tracks are visible, but only if you get time to look. And only if you’re as close to her as I am now.

Her face fills my mind.

I’m not fully aware of it, but my arm is slowly, surely, moving down her back.

(to be kinky continued)

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/chillbearlatrigue/ Chillbear Latrigue

    Where the hell have you been before now? It is 630 AM as I write this comment and I would rather read the next part than go back to bed. Did you come up with the term Ladder Moment? I’ve never heard of it before. I even googled it and really didn’t find anything. I also thought the use of “girl” instead of making up a name was clever.

    If this is a true story (and I don’t know what is going to happen in Part Two), don’t worry. In my experience all pain in the ass moments for which human decency is called comes to an end. That is where I live. In the time just after the moment of decency.

    Great story, OV. Let’s not wait too long for Part Two.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/ BookishLookish

    I feel as if your testicles are right here in the room with me.

    Nice visit inside you observant head, OV. If women stopped worrying so much about visible panty lines, unplanned nipple display, and whether or not the rest of the world thinks they’re “too fat,” they’d be getting laid a lot more.

    Oh, and girls, if you can swing it, buy a house with a library and have a ladder installed. Your glamour quotient doubles instantly, and that is worth every penny. For those here in New York:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/nyregion/thecity/29ladd.html

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/fictionsinmotion/ Vaquero

    Look at Chillbear becoming a mother to OV. Where have you been? Why haven’t you called?

  • http://wordsmoker.com/ BookishLookish

    @Vaq: Like many of his gender, especially those of a conservative bent, CL has a distinctive impatient, authoritarian streak, which I am working on during our lessons. I gave him the weekend off–I have family obligations and I’ve also had to send a bunch of my teaching tools out for a good mid-summer cleaning–so expect more comments along these lines over the course of the next few days.

    Or it might be that CL is excited to see some intriguing writing on here/is a bit tired of this new show, The WS Race to Be the Top Commenter(TM). Or that could just be me projecting.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/fictionsinmotion/ Vaquero

    If you need any help, Bookish, let me know. I got some cattle prods and whatnot over here. Willing to step in and give the little extra jolt now and then. xo

  • http://wordsmoker.com/ BookishLookish

    @Vaq: Part of the genius of the liberal-subversive method is its subtlety; we only use the most pleasurable of coersions. I guess you follow the anarchist methodology, which I favored in my youth. I mean, good on you, doll, I’m schooled in it and it def. works. But you’ve got to fight fire with fire.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/fictionsinmotion/ Vaquero

    I’m doing it wrong!

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/chillbearlatrigue/ Chillbear Latrigue

    @BL and Vaq: As long as I get the two of you in a room together, I’m down.

    I liked the story because it was written from a man’s perspective. I feel that it is the male version of the very excellent Your Boyfriend’s Other Girlfriend series by our very own Strawberry Shortcake. However, in this story I can relate to the narrator. His character is predatory, but not cruel. That’s never an easy balance to strike. I guess, I am merely acknowledging OV’s talent from one cocksman to another. Much the same way that he would raise his drink to me at a bar as I walked out with you too lovely ladies…and maybe a few of your friends, while he only guessed that I would be taking you back to my house where we would videotape our sexcapades. Everyone be quiet though. I don’t want to wake up my parents.

    You also hit the nail on the head with your last comment Bookish. I believe that Wordsmoker lives and dies by the collective quality of its output. That’s why I’m cool just being on the list.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/ BookishLookish

    No, girl, you’re good. It’s just CL has this amazing…well, he’s very…it’s hard to…

    He’s too hypervigilant for the cattle prod is all.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/fictionsinmotion/ Vaquero

    “Don’t wake up my parents” that was great.

    Okay. I’ll go fetch the cattle prod from the trash.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/ BookishLookish

    @Vaq: I think Virus might like it. Just call it a “Pictish prod.”

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/fictionsinmotion/ Vaquero

    It’ll get him speaking in tongues, I’m sure.

    (I had to look that up, Bookish!)

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/noradarling/ Nora Darling

    Well, this was nice to wake up to. Looking forward to part two…

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/mama-penguino-2-2-2/ Mama Penguino

    Thank you for this insight into the male mind, Octavius. The story is beautifully written and manages to convey sexual attraction in a way that is understated and poetic and has to do more with the individual than getting hit over the head with big breasts, vibrators, cattle prods, you name it. It’s genuinely sensuous.

    @BL: sorry to have bored you guys with the bullshit commenting. Without a doubt I’m a top offender and knowing how you all feel about it — and remembering I’m new to this site — I feel a little like I’ve been told I sound like a braying donkey. I never did know when to turn it off, but turn it off I will.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/fictionsinmotion/ Vaquero

    Don’t fall for it, Mama. Bookish is just trying to take you down!

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/belltolls/ Belltolls

    @Octavius Your story reminds me of something I read in college about harmonic proportion: “harmonic design concept is popularly known as sacred geometry—where all figures could be drawn or created using a straight line (not even necessarily a ruler) and compass, i.e. without measurement (dependent on proportion only).” If I can diagram your story I will put it up as a comment. So, when is part two?

  • http://wordsmoker.com/ tilltheclockspeaksup

    I really loved this. As a young woman I know what it is to admire every little feature in your lover, but it is easy to forget amid the rampant self-consciousness that guys can be looking through the same loving lens. You dont have to fret about the wart on your knee or some extra stomach chub or a pimple that probably nobody will notice..
    Octavius, I didn’t find you to be predatory at all. I completely relate to your instincts and I think a woman would be lucky to have someone as appreciative of everything as you. Can’t wait for the next installment!

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/chillbearlatrigue/ Chillbear Latrigue

    @TTCSU: Can we just agree that a knee wart needs to be taken care of?

    @MamaP: I think we were all a little guilty of over posting. I didn’t mean my comment for anyone specifically. Besides, even if I had, I’m not the King of the Internet…yet.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/baroness/ Baroness

    That was really well-done, OV. I really felt like i was there observing, but also privy to your inner thoughts, complex. It was funny, sexy, and kind of touching too, at the end. And I could really imagine Girl’s beauty and attractiveness through your eyes. Loved this.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/lipsticklibrarian/ LipstickLibrarian

    @Bookish: My dream home has a library with a ladder, and secret passageways, a dumbwaiter, a bookcase that revolves to reveal a wet bar, and paintings with the eyes cut out so I can spy on people from behind the walls.

    All right in line, really, with my Agatha-Christie-meets-Scooby-Doo aesthetic.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/lipsticklibrarian/ LipstickLibrarian

    Oh, and OV, I enjoyed this very much.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/helene/ helene

    Octavius, this is endearing.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/dahlelama/ DahlELama

    Say what you will about the over-commenting but at least some of those of us doing it are posting regularly as well, and frankly, without posting, the site is essentially non-existent, so I’m sorry if what I write (because I will only speak for myself) is not as “intriguing” (and yes, OV, this was beyond intriguing–I literally hung on every word) but I really don’t feel like I or anyone else needs to take shit when we’re the ones providing the fodder for the “quality” comments.

    @Mama P: You, who have written several great pieces lately, need to apologize least of all.

    And yes, I’m aware I’m being very touchy, but it’s late and I’m cranky and upon rereading what I wrote, I still agree with myself.

    @OV, because I don’t like that I buried my compliment to you in my rant, I say this: I think you have a fantastic voice and have done an incredible thing in making a wonderfully empathetic and multi-layered character out of a horny guy lusting after a married woman. I look forward to seeing where his hard-on leads him.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/dahlelama/ DahlELama

    OK, so thirty-minutes-later-and-no-longer-stuck-in-a-tiny-room-with-three-of-her-in-laws DahlELama thinks that perhaps I was overreacting/taking those comments too personally and apologizes, though she stands by her statements to Mama and OV and also vows to now stop talking in the third person.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/bjonston/ BJonston

    @Bookish: I’ll slip you the twenty I owe you next week. ;-)

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/bjonston/ BJonston

    OV: That was very enjoyable. I used to work with a lady lawyer who was very good about preventing undue cleavage at work, but every once in a while she’d let down her guard and I would catch a glimpse of her beautiful, perky, breasts dusted with freckles. One of the best such moments was late one afternoon, surrounded by boxes and boxes of discovery. I remembered it as soon as you described your “ladder moment.” I completely identified with your description of the nearly blinding desire to just reach out and touch. Her. Right there and then. Fantastic!

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/fictionsinmotion/ Vaquero

    Bookish is in cahoots with BJonston! That was my other theory. But I couldn’t make it make sense because I didn’t know what lengths BJ would go to to win.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/bjonston/ BJonston

    VAQ: I have already won.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/fictionsinmotion/ Vaquero

    BJ: The turtle always wins.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/bjonston/ BJonston

    Vaq: How’d you know I was a turtle?

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/fictionsinmotion/ Vaquero

    BJ: You are the rabbit. Doi.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/bjonston/ BJonston

    Vaq: Only in bed.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/fictionsinmotion/ Vaquero

    That’s too funny, BJ. Thank you. I’m still laughing.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/bjonston/ BJonston

    @Vaq: I do what I can.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/ BookishLookish

    @BJ: I know you’re good for it, Rey de mi Cajeta.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/bjonston/ BJonston

    @Bookish: Te debo un beso, tambien.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/bjonston/ BJonston

    @Bookish: Parece que te debo un beso, tambien.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/ BookishLookish

    @BL: Siempre y cado dia, por favor!