Saturday, May 26, 2012

The bitter taste of karma.

Six or seven months ago I was at this great bar with a friend. I've mentioned this friend before, Shorthorn as we're calling him, was the friend who missed out the day I enjoyed the company of Joan of Arkansas and her "sister" Cherry. Shorthorn and I were living together at the time and had made our way to one of our favorite spots, a bar that features live music from a house band, interspersed with karaoke & girls dancing on the bar and table tops. Not to mention one liter beers that make you feel like Thor when you drink from them. The night was meant to be low-key and short. I had slept very little the prior three nights and was running on energy shots. Shorthorn had been buying drinks all night for a lovely pair of young ladies who had complimented our drunken rendition of Cee-Lo Green's "Fuck You", and the two had been sticking with us for most of night. Shorthorn was remaining neutral, feeling out which girl was into him before focusing his efforts on just one. We'll call the girls Thelma and Louise (because I am not feeling very creative right now). Thelma made Shorthorn's choice an easy one. While I was wrapping up a joke that wasn't all that funny, she laughed, put her arms around me buried her head in my shoulder, rubbed my back and pressed against me and said "You're so funny, I like you." To top it off, she proceeded to tell Shorthorn that Louise was not the "dating type", but was a total freak and that Louise thought Shorthorn was cute. The decision had been made.


As the night went on, things took a turn. Thelma and I had remained cozy in a booth, while Shorthorn & Louise roamed the bar, did a duet, and talked with other groups of people. Before long, last call had approached and I stepped outside to take a phone call from Cherry, who I have continued to see since our first encounter whenever we are in the same area. When I came back in, Louise had gone missing and Shorthorn was flirting rather hardcore with Thelma. It turns out that Louise had bumped into her ex, who I suppose she found to be a more reliable lay that night than Shorthorn, and Shorthorn was attempting to take Thelma home instead, so that his money spent on these girls would not be a waste (because yes, that IS how Shorthorn thinks and operates.) I chose not to be mad at this snaky move to scoop in and leave me empty handed, because I was ready to go home and sleep a little bit before work, and I knew Cherry would be around the next afternoon. Thelma however returned to my side when I sat back down. Shorthorn not yet ready to concede defeat invited her back to our place to continue drinking, to which she quickly agreed. I was beginning to realize I wasn't going to get much sleep this night. 

I headed out to the parking lot, fully prepared to let Shorthorn take the reins with Thelma, so that I may get some sleep. I offered to take his car and let him ride with her, but she objected, saying we were all going to the same place, and she wanted me to finish telling her a story I had started in the bar. Shorthorn tried handing me his keys multiple times, but reluctantly drove himself home. I thought we would follow right behind him, but we didn't. We pulled up to a house that she said belonged to Louise and rolled into the garage. She made a few phone calls to her, all in vain, and turned the car off. Her next move wasn't tactful at all, but I am a guy so I don't suppose it needed to be. Thelma took off her seatbelt and said "I'm giving you a blowjob." I didn't argue. Allow me to get sidetracked for just one minute and say this: To any guy reading this, Why is it that when a girl does something that you know she learned from porn, it's instantly very hot that she did it, or hilariously funny? Like "Wow, she actually did it." And a ladies, what makes it funnier is when you act like you do some of these things for your own enjoyment. Maybe it’s because I am a guy, but I don’t see how you can think it’s hot when we shoot a load all over your face, for example. Sure, I like when you let me do it, but it’s just that, you’re letting me do it. That’s not what this girl did though, she did something else I found to be unexplainably funny. She sat up, with every drop of my sticky warm baby gravy still in her mouth and swirled it around, scooped it up in her tongue like a bowl, showed it to me, spit some out onto her lips and chin, and finally licked it all back up and swallowed. I’ve seen it in porn, but this was the first real life application I’d seen of this particular practice. The best part of the story is still to come though, no pun intended. 

So we get back to the apartment and Shorthorn has music playing, a case of beer in the fridge, and is sitting on the couch having a drink when we walk in. I quietly debate with myself if I could go pass out in my car and be able to sleep before the fast approaching morning comes. I know it’s not an option though. My course of action will now be to have a drink or two and pull Shorthorn aside and tell him what took us so long so that he’ll quit trying to get into her pants and let her leave. Before I open drink number one, I get a text from Cherry asking what I am doing. I reply back that I am going to sleep because I have work early. Two drinks later I’ve still yet to get Shorthorn away from Thelma. The two of them however have taken multiple cigarette breaks on the balcony. Since I don’t smoke, I used the time to clean up bits of the mess we are making and to text Cherry, who has been texting me, despite my claim of being in bed and needing sleep. Out of the window I see Shorthorn edging closer and closer to Thelma, still trying to stake his claim as though I was even attempting to compete. I step outside and Thelma puts her arms around me and goes for a kiss, but I back away. Mostly because of the cigarette breathe, and my disdain of putting my tongue anywhere that taste like ashes, but I would be lying if I said I didn’t resurface the image of her swirling around that sticky mouth full less than an hour ago. She looked offended, but I turned my head and faked a hard cough and walked back inside mumbling something about how the cigarette smoke must be choking me. I come inside to find I have a missed call and a voicemail from Cherry. The voicemail informs me that Cherry is on her way over “to cuddle”.

It was an unexpected call, because Cherry as you may know isn’t from the same city as me, and wasn’t supposed to be in town until the next night. I walk outside to call her back and ask her to wait until tomorrow. Luckily for me, she couldn’t come over anyway, for whatever reason to do with her step-mom’s car or some excuse of the sort. I took a breath of relief and talked for a little bit before walking back inside. As I walk in I see Thelma and Shorthorn in the midst of a very sloppy wet make out session. My mind goes right back to the image of her swirling her tongue in that very same manor earlier. I laugh, I thought I laughed to myself, but I had indeed laughed out loud and it got their attention. They both look up at me and Thelma springs to her feet and says “I should get home, it’s late”. Shorthorn offers to walk her out and she declines. On her way out she yells “Call me”! We close up and I tell Shorthorn that I am going to bed. Shorthorn gets a smug look on his face. I could tell he felt as though he won some sort of contest, like he now had something over me. Shorthorn is a very ego driven person. The conversation went like this:
Shorthorn:  Sorry bro, but she was playing us both, and you weren’t making a move.
Me:  Dude I’m tired and I only have 3 hours to sleep.
Shorthorn:  Are you mad?
Me: I’m tired.
Shorthorn: She tasted like cigarettes and sweat dude, you didn’t miss anything.
Me: Sweat?
Shorthorn: Yeah, like kind of salty but bitter. You shouldn’t be mad.
Me: (Thinking to myself: My cum tastes salty & bitter?) (I laugh out loud) I’m not mad dude, I’m going to sleep.