It's a perfect early autumn day. I'm sitting on the front porch enjoying a cup of coffee on the sort of sunny day that will grow more and more rare as the days pass and turn toward winter.
Through the trees. I hear a car coming up the road and listen as it turns into the driveway. After minute I see Emily's little blue car round the corner on its way up the hill.
I haven't seen her in a while. She gets out of the car with her backpack and waves. I get up as she approaches and we meet with a friendly hug. There are greetings and chit-chat as she settles into a chair next to me.
I offer, "Would you like something to drink? Coffee maybe?"
"I brought vodka and cranberry," Emily replies reaching for her back pack.
I usually wouldn't drink hard alcohol this early in the day, but it's a curious thing for her to bring so I go inside to grab a couple of glasses and ice.
Emily mixes our drinks while telling me how she had just broken up with her latest boyfriend.
"He was sweet," she sighs, "and I can't really say what it was exactly, but he was just kind of ... dull."
I think to myself that I'm an odd person to come and have a break-up drink with. Emily and I don't really hang out much. We run into each other now and again at parties and whatnot, but that's about it.
"Sorry to hear that it didn't work out," I offer.
I notice that her drink is almost gone and look down at mine which is still half full.
She asks, "You just about ready for another one?"
"In a minute," I respond, "I'm kind of a slow drinker."
She swirls the last of her drink around for a moment before tilting her head back to finish it and says, "It was cool at first, but he was really dull in bed."
All I can think to say is, "Yeah, that can happen."
It's kind of ironic, really. A year or so ago we had had sex and I thought the exact same thing about her. It had been Emily's idea. She had come over and pretty much just said "let's have sex". It had been somewhat abrupt, but at the time I had figured that it would be foolish to turn down such an offer. But, while she certainly got off a number of times, Emily had just lain there. Her general lack of energy made me uncomfortable, but she had said that it was all good. In the morning she got up and left and that was that. I figured that it had simply been a one-time event and that the chemistry was just totally wrong. Whatever it was, we still get along just fine.
She smiles and says, "You mind if I mix another one for myself?"
I stir from my thoughts, "Go for it. I'll be ready for another one in a minute. So was he just a total missionary man, or what?"
"Yeah," Emily sighs, "pretty much. I tried to give him some ideas, but he just didn't get it."
She takes a small sip. She must have reached her desired cruising altitude.
Emily gestures off into the air and tells me, "Like, we were hanging out with Lisa and some of her friends - well, your friends too, probably - and she was talking about some stuff that you guys had done and I was like 'that is so hot' but he didn't think so at all."
Lisa and I have been friends for years. Every now and then, when the stars are just right, we abandon ourselves to carnal games and pleasure. Lisa is the strong and bawdy type who sometimes wants to be dominated by someone that she trusts. We've played some wild games.
I grin a little and laugh, "Oh boy. What sorts of things was Lisa saying?"
Emily sits with her knees and thighs clenched together, as if she were wearing a skirt instead of jeans. There is somethig about her current posture and attitude that I find attractive.
"She told us about finding where you had snuck off to at a party once. She said that the woman you were with was calling you Sir and that you were telling her to ... do stuff," Emily describes as she squirms ever so slightly in her chair.
I query, "Stuff?"
Emily could be talking about any number of parties, but now I'm suppressing a smile because I can see that Emily is intrigued by whatever she heard. Turned on maybe? Yeah - I think she is. Hmmm.
She continues, "I can't remember the details, but she made it sound so ... hot. You were totally in control and making this woman do things"
The way Emily is dodging about what she heard sounds like she wants me to respond and fill in the blanks. Lisa was *watching* me. Yeah. I chuckle a little. I suspect that we're talking about a party just this past Summer and it was Lisa that had been on her knees addressing me as Sir.
"Some people are into those sorts of games," I smile and look her in the eye. I'm curious to see where this is going. Probably nowhere, sure, but I can dream can't I?
"I'd show him stories I found online and even tried watching some porn with him," Emily said a bit distantly.
I wonder if she is attempting to direct the topic, or is she trying to remember a script she had come up with.
"Yeah? What kind of porn do you like?" I ask with raised eyebrows.
She bites her lip, hesitates for a moment and answers, "I'm not usually into porn. I mean, I would probably really like it if it were presented better. But sometimes I'll be in a certain mood ... and I'll find something online."
Emily looks away for a moment, perhaps embarrased. I figure that this is a good spot for the conversational wave to break. I let my eyes openly wander across her athletic figure and ask, "Did you try presenting yourself in a manner that made it obvious?"