My Boyfriend's Back 1"( FF MF MFF cons )[1/3] I was pissed off. Pissed off to the max. Or, to put it another way, I was _maximum_ pissed off. Here it was another wonderful weekend in the great big city, and I had to be alone. A city this size has so many incredible virtues that all my friends back home just drool. They drool at the opportunities, but don't much care to listen to the whines. Weekends in my hometown might start about mid-day Thursday, and carry on until Monday night was threatening to turn into Tuesday morning. But here, you have to work your ass off the full five days if you hope to pay the astronomical rent on a tiny little one-bedroom apartment. The monthly sum which would pay off the mortgage on a big house back there in about five years. So the weekends here are nearly sacrosanct. Nearly, that is. This weekend my boyfriend Stephen was suddenly impressed into service by his company to fly off for some stupid conference deep in the heart of the grain states. As I've said, I was pissed. It really wasn't Stephen's fault, but nevertheless I kicked his ass into the taxi, after refusing to tuck a pair of my panties into his pocket. "You can have them when you peel them away from my hot neglected pussy, you bastard," were my parting words. I wasn't exactly being fair, but where in the universe resided fairness in the face of my weekend's plans suddenly having to get on a fucking airplane to Iowa? I stormed around the apartment fuming, kicking open the doors that dared to get in my way. I finally understood why those little cushions you leave scattered in the corners of your couch are called _throw_ pillows. At length I calmed down and began idly contemplating the spoiled evening. Treat myself out for a sumptuous meal, a really, really expensive one--while cleaning up earlier in the week I'd found one of Stephen's credit cards lodged between the sofa cushions. Maybe I could go out and take in a movie. There was always the possibility of going out bar-hopping, pick up the original blind date. But besides being distasteful, the only person that would punish would be myself. Get a guy that blind drunk, and not much else works either. I guessed I could always stay home alone and pretend to be all comfy cozy and woozy. I was weighing none of my attractive options when Kimbra called. "Oh Kimbra," I answered, "I'm so glad you called. Uh huh. No, Stephen had to go fly over the Mississippi River for some reason. I don't know. To report back that it still flows, and corn still grows in Iowa. Sure, come on over. I'll get some dinner in." I ordered up some delivery from a great Vietnamese place around the corner, then lay back vaguely fantasizing about a cute young boat boy who might be persuaded by an extra tip to forget about his official duties for a little while. Not that I'd ever. The food arrived before Kimbra, and I opened the door to some transplanted skag from Alabama who apparently expected the same treatment. He even came out and said so, after the money and food had exchanged hands. He was no John Voight, and that Midnight Cowboy could just ride on back for a wild night in the barn as far as I was concerned. "No thank you," I closed the door, "maybe in your next life, though certainly not in mine." Almost immediately there followed a knock on my door. Without the preliminary buzz on the intercom from the front door. I came so close to ignoring it, but then quietly slid up for a glance out the peephole. It was Kimbra, her face, in that weird wide squishy way. She swept into the apartment in her usual fashion, with a freshly applied scent and her wild flowing hair both billowing as though she was propelled by a wind machine. She came bearing a pair of bottles of wine. "How did you get in downstairs?" I asked. "You wouldn't believe it. Just as I was needing to come in this absolutely gorgeous hunk was coming out. I figured he was your secret lover, but just in case I got all his credentials and scribbled down every pertinent detail I could think of regarding you." This was too uncanny. "You fucking lying slut whore cunt bitch you!" "He _reeked_," she rolled her eyes, "of a Vietnamese kitchen. The lone GI so busy getting gonorrhea even the helicopters left him behind. He too had to escape communism on a raft. _Lucky you!_ Glad it's not me." "If I'd known you were this steeped in evil tonight, I would never have answered the phone." "Oh, girlfriend, chill out. So should we eat some French Indochina cuisine before we indulge in the fine fruit of the California vines?" The food was really excellent but we were both finished well before the supplies of it ran out. Kimbra pushed back first. "_Enough!_ And not more than enough. I eat a full meal, I always want to go to sleep. It's too early for that and too late for a nap. I want to save room for more of this fruity liquid dessert. Besides, we might want a little snack later during the movies." "Movies?" I questioned. "Yes movies," she made big round googly eyes at me. "Marvelous 20th century invention that the marvelous 20th century has shrunken to fit into a small black plastic box. You know, Denise, you pop it in and it plays. Movies. Surely you have some around here." "You don't want to run wild and free and paint the town, dance all the dances and tease all the guys?" I didn't pose the question with much enthusiasm. "Not really. Doesn't sound like you do either." "So, that's what you feel like doing?" I asked. "Oh, to be honest, this is a perfect night to cocoon and spoon." "So why do you want to waste the time hanging around with a widow like me? I mean, what about that guy you were seeing?" Kimbra blew air out between her closed lips. "Oh, _him_. I apparently snagged him on the way to a masquerade. He's invisible as far as my eyes care to see." "What happened?" I asked with genuine concern, because, of course, these matters are of the gravest concern. "He seemed like such a _sweet_ guy." "Oh, he was. But turns out his primary ingredient wasn't sugar. It was saccharine or some such artificial chemical. You know, I discovered the little tag at the base of his neck: _Warning! Use of this product has been known to cause cancer in laboratory rats._ And he was apparently popping in and out of the holes of quite a few rats." "Ooh, yuck." "Exactly. I'm not _that_ desperate to have a latex membrane shoved up inside me, no matter how good it feels at the moment. So I wrote myself a little letter. 'Still having fun? _P.S.: Dump boyfriend!_'" "Oh, I'm sorry, Kimbra. I mean, you know. I'm not sorry. I mean, I am, but I'm not. You know?" She rolled her eyes and gave her hair a flick, and then burst out laughing. "_Relax_, Denise. You really are getting it right. The sentiments _are_ a little bit confusing. At any rate, it's a big ocean and there's plenty of nice big plump fish, but I just don't feel like going out trawling tonight. Staying here and having some wine and chatting and maybe watching a movie, that sounds like a heaven of a night to me right now." She picked up her glass and had a sip, then wandered over to the shelf and started scanning the tapes. I went around the room lighting candles and turning off the lamps, all of them except for a row of low-wattage track lights leading down the hall. "Huh?" Kimbra said looking at one. "What? Which one." "_Riding the Night_. I've heard that's decent. For that sort of thing. I mean, save your money and wait for it to come out on video. Better still wait for your girlfriend's boyfriend to pirate a copy. Have you seen it yet? Is it any good?" "We-e-ll," I started. "Yea, sort of, I mean, you see, I've only seen about the first half, which was pretty good, I mean, you see, Stephen brought it over last weekend, and, uh, well, we wound up not watching the whole thing but not because it wasn't good, I mean . . . " "What you mean is it needs to be rewound because you two guys suddenly didn't have the time to do anything else but hit the off button, is that right?" she asked in a sultry tone, casting a teasing look my way. I didn't really need to answer. "Okay," she popped it in, "as good a recommendation as any." She was right on all counts. The tape did need to be rewound. "Okay now. One promise from you. I'm leaving if you don't cheer up. This is supposed to be quality girlfriend time. If you're going to put on your dreary uniform and salute Major Mope all evening . . . well, so long, it's been good to know you." "Well, gee, thanks for the commiseration," I snapped back. "Oh, _please_, Denise. If you'd just gotten dumped or something I'd lend you my shoulder until there wasn't a tear left in your body, I'd rail against every bastard that ever did you wrong. But face it. You're pissed off because your boyfriend was forced out of town for the weekend. How do we address that? I don't want to spend an evening sitting around bitching about _jobs_. Jobs are like men: _can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em!_ I mean, was Stephen wearing a smiley face when he got the news? _Doubter!_ Sure, he's one of the most totally awesome babes I've ever met. But he's a guy. You _know_ what was going through that guy brain of his." I gave a little shrug and took a sip of wine. "Oh like right you don't." Kimbra cast her voice down low, "_Well, goddamn, no pussy this weekend, and next weekend she'll probably be on the rag_." I exploded in laughter. The wine nearly shot out my nose! Kimbra joined in chorus, "Now am I right, or am I right?" "You're right, and you're right. I probably will be on the rag! Welcome to Blow Job City! I'll be climbing the walls with horniness, and he'll be all," I pitched low, "_Oh no, that's okay honey,_ I _can wait, no, really, I don't want to wind up ruining your sheets or anything_." It was Kimbra's turn at scalding the nasal membranes. Finally she recovered. "Okay, okay, so you're pissed off _and_ horny. Why don't you make like the yellow pages, let your fingers do the walking." "That's what I do all week long, Kimbra. Weekends are supposed to be special." "What?" she shot me a wicked look, "you don't have a bedside companion." "Huh?" "_Ah-hem!_ Mr. Reliable. Pull out your Dirty Weekend Dildo. Flip the switch on that old vibramagic orgasmatron!" "Oh, no," I shook my head, "that's not for me. Plastic, latex, rubber, I just don't like it. Okay, once upon a time, with this _huge_ king kong thing. It was the color of the _flesh_ crayon. Sort of like a loaf of puffy white bread. Okay to ingest and it sure filled me up, but it got me nowhere. I mean, I need a little visual stimulation, but everytime I opened my eyes it was to the sight of the evil alien monster trying to impregnate me. I couldn't get beyond _good god girl, you're messin' around with a dong!_ "Well, I knew this gal who swore by cucumbers, baked in the oven at a very low heat. Not too mushy. And of course let it cool down a bit." "Kimbra! I'm flesh and blood. I don't want to have sex with a vegetable. Grr-rr. I want _meat_." "Okay, a nice thick salami, _whatever_." "I don't _do_ pork." "I understand they are doing wonderful things with turkey these days." "Kimbra, you just don't understand." "Sure I do, Denise. You're a very picky eater." "You're missing the whole point." "I admit sometimes I do. But right now I'd say you're the one _missing_ the whole _point_." There was that burning sensation spreading from my lips up my cheeks. I was hoping the lighting was low enough my blush would go unnoticed. Kimbra can get on a roll where any sense of mercy is a scrap of trash out blowing along the gutter. It exists, but not in the room where she sits. I leaned over to the side table and lit a couple of scented candles, hoping, I suppose, to hide the primary evidence of my other blush, rising up from my other lips to my other cheeks. Damn I was horny. My poor blood was so confused it didn't know where to go. Rushing this way and that. There definitely wasn't enough left to keep my brain at full function. I had to calm down. I tried to pay attention to the movie, but it was nothing but a screen full of flickering lights, shouting loud noises. I vaguely recognized the pair of protagonists. Then it segued into a flashback, a tedious courtroom scene that was apparently injected at the last minute in an attempt to make the whole premise of the movie plausible. It was long and stilted and so very dull that I'd decided to rip off Stephen's clothes and molest him instead. "So Denise, when exactly did you last get some? With Stephen or not you don't have to say." "_Kimbra!_" I protested, "it's always with Stephen. Last weekend," I admitted. "Oh you poor thing. Saturday? Sunday?" "We-e-ll, gee, um, both." "_We-e-ll_ indeed. What are you complaining about? Twice within a week." "Actually . . . " "Actually what?" "O-o-h . . ." I rushed through it, "three times Saturday, and twice on Sunday and another time I'm not technically sure of because I wasn't paying attention to the clock." "_Girl!_ Oh you poor _deprived_ thing. Jollies, yes or no?" "With Stephen, always. Almost always. Usually, you know, _multiple_." In the low light Kimbra's eyes were full moons shining at me. "Shit. No wonder you're aching. You've gotten too used to the too good stuff." "I _know_," I fairly groaned. By then there was a grand swell of music and a fade-out shot of a man and a woman, looking a bit battered and dirty, staring at each other with unconcealed if stylized lust. The credits started rolling. "Is this the end? that's the end? how did it end?" Kimbra burst in staccato. "_One guess!_ Ms. Good and Mr. Good defeated all evil and have themselves for rewards. But before they can drive off in the sunset for a quick shower before you-know-what they have to find a taxi because all the other cars got blown up along the way." "So that's the sequel then? Ooh, scary! Two hours of standing around all ready for the real action, but no way to get there. _Hailing a Cab_. I think I'll skip that one. Just thinking about it is going to give me nightmares." I was looking all around us for the remote, when right as the film finished I saw that I'd left it on top of the television.