Sigh... where was I?
Oh yeah, I was trying to get to the point of where Slave Carolyn came into our household and our lives. Before I get to that, maybe it's best to discuss Cee Cee, who was only in our lives for something like a week, but helped really define who John and I were to each other.
To reflect, John and I are 'roommates with benefits'. He owns the house and is a wonderfully overpaid junior associate at an investment banking firm. I got an early (Spring Semester) start on my Masters in the Classics, and will hopefully start the Ph.D. program in a year or two. John is a wonderful fuck. We share a bed, we're each other's plus one to everything, and until Cee Cee came along, we were monogamous. We're not in love. Hell, I'm not sure either of us has a good definition of love. From my Classics studies, the Greeks and Romans had eight words for love: eros (sexual desire), philia (affection/platonic), agape (unconditional/self sacrifice), storge (familial/siblings/parents), mania (obsession/madness), ludus (playful/courtship), pragma (duty/obligation), and philautia (self love). I think the love that drives couples to, well, 'couple', or mate for life (or until the pre-nupt kicks in) has a bit of all of those. John and I are definitely in the eros area, and often in the ludus, but we're both still too much into philautia to think much about 'coupling'. We just like to fuck, and John gets invited to lots of nice dress-up parties.
Plus he's a great chef. Did I mention that?
Anyway, John knows that I'm not exclusively into guys, although right now I'm exclusively into him cuz, well, I just can't handle the drama. Anyway, I'm maybe 60/40 straight. I do enjoy the feel of a woman's body, and the way a woman kisses, and the way a woman knows exactly how to touch me...
...gimme a minute here...
... where was I? Oh yeah, sure, I like to fuck women occasionally, but I do need a cock most of the time. There is an itch that... sigh... at least for me, another woman simply isn't equipped to scratch.
OK, so John knows that... but anyway, one day, over dinner, out of the blue he says, "Hey, in case it comes up from someone, I called you my girlfriend today at work."
In between forks of salad, I said, "OK, something you want to tell me?"
"Yeah, well, I was trying to dodge a career-ending bullet, and you were implicitly helpful."
"How so, my sweet, and do I need to call my parents?"
John sighed. "Julie, you are the most horny woman I have every met..."
"An honor I shall wear with pride."
"Yes, but there's this college senior intern girl at work named Cee Cee who would give you a solid run for your money. She's a clear number 2, dripping with pheromones, and flirting with every guy and most of the girls in the office."
"You're using protection, right?"
"Sigh... yeah... no... anyway, she was coming on to me like a she-wolf in heat, and I parried all of her thrusts, but finally told her I had a 'live-in girlfriend'. You."
"And that ended it?"
"Not exactly. She hinted seriously at a three-some."
"And you said...?"
"Did you miss the part about 'potentially career ending'? I'd rather not go from six-figure junior associate to gypsy finance professor at local junior colleges this early in my life. Fortunately, I got called into a meeting, and Cee Cee went about delivering mail and making copies and all the other shit interns do."
"So, now I'm your girlfriend?"
"That's your take-away?"
"That and you still have a job and I don't have to work, right?"
"Yeah... want dessert?"
"Yeah. Whatcha got?"
Anyway, the subject of Cee Cee died for a few weeks, and then one day John's car (OK, one of his cars - he owns three, but the one he drove to work that day) was broken down so I agreed to pick him up at work (the least I could do, since, well, I live in his house rent free and he pays all the household bills so I can go to school and he's the best fuck in the universe). He and I decided to slip into a happy hour joint near his office for a drink or three. As we were standing at the bar, he pointed over to a table of people I'd never seen and said, "Remember Cee Cee?"
"The girl who made me your girlfriend?"
John ignored the dig and said, "Yeah. Anyway, that's her."
I saw a girl who looked exactly like what I'd imagined a Cee Cee would look like. Black hair, a bit too much makeup, spray tan, lots of cleavage, a leather skirt with a hem closer to her waist than her knee, and the sort of jewelry and accessories normally associated with one of the Real Housewives shows. She was surrounded by guys in their 20's, all clearly some kind of banking junior associates like John, at a table with a guy/girl ratio of about 3 to 1. I couldn't hear what was going on from across the room, but she was laughing at some guy's joke and leaning a bit to close.
"And she's the one who hinted at a three-some?"
"Yep. She's the one."
"Hmmm...." John could see I was thinking. "She's not exactly who I would have picked if I was cruising... but... Anyway, there's still that 'career ending' thingie, I assume?"
"Yeah, well, that's not a problem anymore. She left us right after that and took a job down the street. Not exactly a competitor, so zero conflicts. Not like I'm going to try to pick her up or anything, but I thought you'd like to know."
"Why not try to pick her up?"
"Huh?", John asked, with just a hint of incredulousness.
"I'm serious. Go for it. Bring her home. But only if you intend to share."
"You're serious."
"I'm serious."
I could see the wheels turning behind John's eyes. He was opening a mental spreadsheet and weighing all the pros and cons of a three-some romp in the hay. Certainly, it wouldn't do anything bad for our relationship, since, well, we don't really HAVE a relationship. We just fuck. Of course, maybe Cee Cee would try to get in the middle of that, but at least I'd see the competition up close and personal, rather than behind my back. A win-win from my perspective.
Just then, fate had her way with us, and Cee Cee came walking in our direction. I hadn't noticed, but where we stood was on a direct line between her table and the little girls room. She must be heading off to powder her nose... and by 'nose' I mentally meant cooch.
"John!"
"You remember me!"
"Yes, of course! The handsomest guy at the firm. How could I forget you!!!" She then turned to me and said, "I'm Cee Cee, I used to intern at John's firm. You must be his girlfriend."
I opted to play along. "Yes. Julie. Nice to meet you." I then turned to John and said, "You didn't mention you had such a bubbly intern at your firm. When was I going to get to meet her?"
Cee Cee said, "Bubbly. I like that. I don't think I've ever been called bubbly."
Well, not to your face, I thought. Then I said, "Yeah, well, you seem like the life of the party. What are you doing now?"
She pointed to the table across the way and said, "I'm working with that firm. A fun bunch, but you know, there's a limit to how far you can party with co-workers. I was cautioned about that by HR when I started."
I'll bet you were. Cee Cee was like a flashing red danger signal to any HR manager worth her salt. To me, though, I could see needing a new mattress and maybe some chiropractic care after a night with her. "Cee Cee, I'm sorry we never got to meet. I wish John had invited you out to the farm sometime."
"Farm. John, you never said you had a farm."