Dear Shoeblossom
I met Candi in a dog park. She was looking in my boxer’s ears and pronouncing them “filthy”. I had no idea what she was talking about. I liked the dog, but it wasn’t my choice to get him.
Sallianne had bought Clematis. (was she sleeping with the breeder?)
Of course my darling wife wouldn’t walk Clem in the rain or clean up his crap...
Later Sallianne had left me for the douche down the street, and they’d moved from here, in South Dakota to North Dakota. I guess the new guy was allergic to dogs.
But, Clem reminded me of the eight good years, five of them married, that I’d been with Sallianne, and that was great. But I had not quite gotten used to taking over vet duties, and all that.
Candi was adorable. She didn’t seem to have a dog of her own. At first I thought she was a dog-walker. But she was just sort of sitting there in the park.
Curly dark hair, huge green eyes. Lips so full they took over her face, and made me ache to kiss them.
Girls don’t generally like me very much. What was my main quality?
“Lumpy,” Sallianne had told me once, “You stick around for the long haul.”
That was one interesting thing about me.
Then, as I was talking to Candi in the park, Titters, a friend of mine from the South Dakota “scene” walked by with her Lhasa Apso.
She waved to me, and then smiled at Candi. “Hey Candi...”
So they were friends!
“Lumpy’s one of us, you know.”
Candi frowned at me. “Really? ‘Cause someone should take him over their knee for the condition of his Boxer’s ears.”
Titters tossed her blond mane and giggled. “He’s a screamer, I’ve given him the cane--”
“Jesus, Titters! Some things are private--”
And then Candi slapped me. Barely knew me, this girl. “Let’s go.”
“Where?” But she was leading Clematis, and he was guiding her to my car.
I was staring, transfixed at Candi’s cute little butt twitching in the faded jeans.
Watching this, Titters gave her world famous laugh.
“You’d better follow her, slave boy, before you get in any more trouble!”
We dropped Clematis off at my house, and Candi instructed me to go in and get my pajamas.
“I...I don’t wear pajamas. Usually I sleep in my um, drawers.” Not to mention that it’s the middle of the afternoon. But she was so cute...hot. And she was talking about bed, right?
So we then went to her little apartment.
We came inside and Candi went to her bedroom and brought back a pair of pink striped pajamas, and told me to go into her bedroom and put them on.
“Take off everything else, even your underwear.”
I guess if I’d been more authoritative, I might have grabbed her and kissed her then, but I just did as I was told. I came out in the pajamas, and Candi was sitting on her couch with a large thick wooden paddle.
“Men who neglect their pets are usually not capable of adult behavior.” she said, tapping the paddle against her knee.