I felt soiled – and never in a great way.
I had been posing for headshots all morning for one among my many sideshows. At first I felt nice, completely over the moon for the shoot, however after hours – actually o’clock– from grinning till my cheeks harm, I used to be exhausted. Then, after a fast lunch, I needed to hurry to my different gig as a maid. My finest good friend was overseas and rented out her three bed room condominium. Might I preserve issues wanting pristine among the many friends whereas she was gone? Certain, I needed to earn hire and it appeared like a straightforward strategy to make a fast buck.
However that day she had friends from the seventh circle of hell. I spend o’clock scrubbing horrible stains out of partitions and baseboards and bogs (oh my). When the job was lastly performed, all hint of the morning’s glamor had vanished from my face, drenched in sweat and exertion.
I used to be strolling again to my automobile, dreaming of constructing candy, candy love with my bathe, once I handed a dive bar. I may use a stiff drink, so I made a decision to dive into the darkness to shake off the day.
There wasn’t a lot to the watering gap, with its minimal decor and even fewer clients, however the bartender knew methods to make an important, no-frills cocktail, and that was ok for me. The quaint was completely tousled. That first sip was heaven in a glass and I closed my eyes in appreciation.
“Seems to be like that was nearly as good as you hoped.”
A hoarse voice broke my grumpy reverie. I fought off a growl. I did not need to chat. I did not need to be noticed. I did not even need to be watched. My eyes went to the place the remark got here from and to my shock, the supply was somebody I did not need to scare away straight away. He was a lanky, blond fellow with essentially the most disarming smile I would ever seen. I do not know if it was his form blue eyes or his easygoing demeanor, however one thing about him made his initially unwelcome hiatus really feel much less like an affordable comeback and extra like the brand new child at college genuinely attempting to strike up a dialog. to knot.
“It is sturdy,” I admitted. “That is what I want as we speak.”
When he took the stool subsequent to mine, I obtained a whiff…Oh no. Historic herb. I do not know why, however that odor appeals to me wild.
“I am Scott.* I hope you do not thoughts me speaking to you. My good friend I am staying with needed to work tonight and I do not know many individuals right here. I surf alongside the coast, so I am solely on the town for a number of days.”
I raised an eyebrow. “There are sure to be extra environment friendly methods to journey. I hear the prepare is nice when you’ve got time.’
This time the smile was accompanied by a hearty chortle, and I melted sooner than the whiskey in my glass. He had a golden retriever vitality that was no match for my growling temper. Additional conversations revealed that he was not solely splendidly self-effacing, but in addition charming and whip-smart. His rants about our shared nerdy fandoms gave me time to loosen up and soak up his horniness with out having to make an excuse to stare. His kindness ran the knife of “I may simply be good, however I could possibly be open to flirting.” I questioned which means he would fall.
“So that you mentioned you surf out of season,” I advised. “What do you do throughout your on-season?”
“Properly…” Scott hesitated and scratched his neck. “I am a firefighter.”
“Not likely!” I mentioned testing the contact barrier whereas frivolously gripping his muscular forearm for emphasis. “At college I babysat a few firefighters. They have been all badass.”
He did not draw back from my contact. Good begin. “Actually? That is cool. Yeah, it is a powerful gig. I solely do it a part of the 12 months they usually ship me to the large fires. This previous 12 months has been loopy.
I slid my hand off Scott’s forearm and landed proper subsequent to his on the bar, shut sufficient I may really feel the warmth coming from his fingers. “Which of them did you’re employed on?”
His knuckles grazed mine. “The entire state. I am not assigned to a station, so they simply ship me the place they want me – normally within the wilderness on the outskirts of a metropolis.’
Distracted by my very own attraction to him, I half listened as he listed a handful of wildfires—till he casually dropped the identify of 1 that had devastated my hometown and practically destroyed my childhood house.
I felt my voice catch in my throat. “I grew up close to that.”
Scott’s face grew severe. His hand lined mine.
“My mother and father nonetheless stay there,” I continued. “The place did you maintain the road?”
I swallowed when he talked about a nature reserve with a really particular, unmistakable identify.
“That is lower than a mile from my home.”
He paused. “I used to be stationed there for 3 weeks earlier than we had full management of that entrance.”
I leaned ahead and kissed him. With out pondering, with out decorum, with no trace of a backup plan. I may odor the shaving cream on his pores and skin. His kissing lips kissed again and his breath was heat on my cheek.
I pulled again and remembered myself. ‘I am sorry, I am sorry. Thanks. Thanks for saving my house.”
He smiled and his fingers intertwined in mine. “Do not point out it.”
I am unable to bear in mind what else we talked about. Frankly, it did not matter. What I do bear in mind was us getting nearer and nearer, knees touching, conversations punctuated by kisses and arms wandering. Then I remembered: I had simply made a mattress inside stumbling distance.
“Do you need to get out of right here?” I whispered.
“I assumed you’d by no means ask.”
1,000,000 and a half ideas raced by means of my head as we walked out of the bar into the dim night time, the lamplight falling on the sidewalks. Was I actually about to do that? Would my bestie be mad? Can I get this performed with out leaving a hint? Did he actually love me? I appeared up from the ground into the toilet mirror earlier than I left…
“Hello.” Scott’s baritone voice reduce by means of my thoughts. “Are you OK?”
“Sure. Sure, I am nice.” I leaned towards a brick wall and appeared previous him on the streetlights “Perhaps a bit of nervous.”
There was that smile once more. He got here nearer. “Hey can I ask you one thing?”
“Actually.”
“Hmmm. Properly, see…” And he kissed me, deeply and with such ardour that it felt like a bolt of lightning shot proper into my crotch. I wrapped a leg round him, not caring that we have been in public, and felt his erection pulsate towards me.
Scott grabbed my face. “I’ve needed to kiss you from the second I noticed you.”
“Do you even appear to be that? I’ve been cleansing rest room bowls all afternoon.”
He shook his head. ‘You appeared stunning. Perhaps confused. However closed. Not that you just’re intimidating, however that i was intimidatingsave, and that is my very own factor to work on, however I used to be… ‘handcuffed’, I feel, is the proper phrase…?”
Suppose he was nervous too. It was endearing. And bloody scorching.
“Scott?”
“Sure?”
“Shut up and kiss me yet another time.”
Moments later I used to be fumbling with the entrance door keys, attempting to pay attention as Scott sniffed my neck and tried his finest to make my knees buckle. As quickly because the door gave means he slung me over his shoulder right into a fireman’s raise and we walked into the condominium laughing. I actually like a person who can throw me round like a rag doll.
He threw me down on the mattress. Inside seconds, we stripped right down to underwear and commenced exploring – lips discovering lips, moans punctuated by kisses, arms traversing new landscapes of pores and skin, savoring no matter they discovered.
Scott took off his boxers and the bulge I would felt on the road was as beautiful as I would imagined. He actually was an Adonis, from head to toe.
“Hello.” He appeared up at me as he rolled up a condom. “Are you open to one thing kinky?”
“What did you take note of?”
He nestled between my legs once more, able to enter me however ready. I pushed again a few of his blond hair from his brow. “What do you consider breath play?” he requested.
My eyebrows shot up. “Would you like me to strangle you?”
“Just a bit.” He introduced my hand to his mouth and kissed every finger pad, then gently guided it to his stubbly throat and positioned it in a sure place. “Enclose together with your finger pads, do not push together with your palm. Just a bit. It feels unbelievable. I am going to faucet you twice on the shoulder if it is an excessive amount of. Sounds good?”
Did this actually occur? Was I actually about to close up this stranger, this man who had saved my childhood house?
“Inform me if you’re prepared,” I mentioned.
He pushed to the restrict and I gasped at his girth. I introduced my different hand right down to rub my clit as he pushed, our eyes locked. I felt the acquainted construct up in my physique, climbing and climbing.
“Now,” Scott muttered. “Pinch. Gently.”
I did as he ordered, feeling the sunshine resistance and pulse of the arteries beneath my fingers. He moaned – not in ache however pure pleasure. I used to be shocked at how excited I felt, this newfound energy flowing by means of my physique like a skinny flame. It virtually made me dizzy.
With a buck, I flipped us over so I used to be on prime, my torso nonetheless near him, my different hand nonetheless onerous at work on my clit. I let go of my fingers for a second, so he may pause, after which caught them once more, a hair more durable this time. Scott’s arms grabbed my ass, pushing it deeper into me with every thrust. I felt dizzy watching his eyes roll again into his head, smiling with reckless abandon.
“Fuck,” he blurted out. “Fuck, I will cum.”
I descend and journey him more durable, the mattress shakes, his face turns redder and redder till it seizes and a cry of pleasure escapes him. I let go of his throat and the sight of his orgasm put me over the sting. I got here so onerous, my thighs have been shaking.
Once I fell into the firefighter’s arms — slick with sweat, glad, each nerve aflame with bliss — I felt simply the proper of dust.
*Identify has modified.
Jennie Roberson is a comedy actor and screenwriter at present dwelling in Los Angeles. She additionally writes and conducts interviews for Bisexual.org. When she’s not busy writing the subsequent Nice Queer American Novel, you could find her binging Star Trekkicking in her native ax throwing league, or dreaming of her future cat military.