From: "Doug.xxxx"
To: "Bobbie,yyyyyy"
Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 7:40pm
Subject: Saturday….Saturday….
Your answer to my last e-mail knocked me out! You are a continual surprise to me. I figured you wouldn't be exactly appalled by the nature of all of these goings-on (I mean, after all, you and I have shared some stories—and I did tell you about the Gary encounter without you disinheriting me) but your comment about Erika had me in convulsions. "Sounds like she got her problem licked!" MOM!!!
But I didn't get a chance to really finish my last e-mail to you. Everyone started to get up and move around the apartment so I had to cut it short. But you can imagine what everyone looked like in broad daylight after a night of debauchery!
Friday night (actually early Saturday), after Dirk /Gary and Lydia/Erika made their respective exits, Lania fell asleep sitting with me on the couch. She literally cried herself to sleep with her head on my chest. I sat there not wanting to disturb her but finally, when I was pretty sure she was deep asleep, I slid away from her and allowed her to sink down onto her side on the couch. I slipped off her shoes and covered her up with one of those fuzzy blankets you sent me. I piled myself into the recliner chair with the other blanket and drifted off to sleep too.
I am an early riser and, on top of that, I hadn't had anything to drink the night before so I woke up at about 7:00am with my wits about me. I figured the rest of the folks would be down for the count, given the cognac, revelry, and emotions of the night before. That gave me a chance to bat out that long e-mail to you.
It is a good thing I had a chance to do that because it helped organize my thoughts about what had happened and about how all those relationships had changed in my mind in a seeming instant.
I mean, if I had really given it some thought, I suppose I could have figured out the Dirk/Gary thing. Old Dirk had really taken more personal interest in Gary's case than one would expect of even a "do-gooder" social worker. But the Lydia/Erika affair was more than I could have guessed, even though I suppose I should have been tuned into Erika's situation better than I was. It seems that we are blindest to the foibles of the people nearest to us. But…hmmmm….It sounds like you might have had some inkling about Erika, "…got her problem licked…" indeed! We are going to have to talk about that one.
Lydia was the first one up. She looked great! I mean she was up and about and all put together: make-up, hair neat, clothes without a wrinkle, and a ten megawatt smile! Lesbian or not, she made my loins ache. She swept into the kitchen announcing, "Coffee! Coming up!"
I sent you that e-mail, signed off my computer, and headed over to help her out when I saw Erika coming down the hallway. She definitely looked less elegant than Lydia. Erika had put on one of my white terry cloth robes, was barefoot, and had that fly-away hair look. She didn't seem as much hung over as she did tired. But it didn't seem to be the heavily fatigued brand of tiredness as much as that relaxed "what a wonderful experience" variety of tired. If she were a cat, she would have been purring.
"Yummmmm, " Erika said with a languorous stretch, "Coffee sounds good."
Dirk appeared looking like the leftovers of yesterday's birthday cake. You know what I mean: that not fresh any more, crumbling, dried out look. Yep, Dirk was in his slacks and shirt but looked wrinkled and tired: used, abused and subdued kind of tired—and hung over. He needed some coffee—and likely a shot of that cognac, too!
"YEAH, Baby!" That was Gary's voice as he negotiated his way down the hallway with a sequence of moves that would have stopped the show on any dance floor in town. "Yeah, Yeah, Baby!" Gary was stark naked, buff to the max, with his flaccid phallus swaying in front of him in time with his dance steps. He came up behind Dirk and shimmied his body against Dirk's fanny. "Oooh, Yeah ! Baby, baby!!" and he then gave Dirk a kiss on the back of the neck ending it with a lick.
Dirk turned a little red, cast his eyes to heaven, and exhaled in mock drama. From my point of view, I could see Dirk reach around behind himself, find Gary's cock and give it a little squeeze. (Ain't love grand?)
Gary's antics must have awakened Lania. I heard this "Uhhhggghhhh" coming from the vicinity of the couch. I looked over and saw Lania glaring at Dirk and Gary. "You, mister, aren't a bit funny!" she shot in their direction. She could have been aiming that at either one of them but then she said, "I want you and your stuff out of MY apartment today, Mr. Dirk Jerk.!! TODAY, do you understand?"
"O.K., O.K." was Dirk's response, "No Problem!" He was getting back a little of his aplomb.
Lania began to fume, "And put the sheets in the washer and scrub the toilets before you leave." Her voice was rata-tat. "I don't want anything that was next to your dick being next to me until it has been disinfected first!"
"No Problemo, I said!" Dirk was getting his form back, indeed. "And I'll leave a new bottle of Listerine for you to take care of that very thing, Ms. Fellatia!"
"C'mon, Honey!" Dirk said to Gary, "Get your clothes on and let's go. You give better blowjobs anyway….AND your asshole isn't off limits!" That was a last dart back at Lania. (Was I wrong or was Dirk starting to sound molto bitchy already?)
I could sense that this was going to escalate so I interposed myself in the line of fire. I took Gary's well-muscled arm in one hand Dirk's in the other and guided them toward the hallway and the spare bedroom. "Hey, guys!" I said under my breath, "Let's be cool. Let's just ease on out of this thing without turning it into World War Three!" Then I added, in my best soap opera stage whisper, "Besides, you have each other now."
I almost collapsed in laughter as Gary and Dirk went into the bedroom. When I got back to the living room, I saw that no one else seemed to think it was funny. I forgot who my audience was: a betrayed lover, a lesbian lover, and a lesbian attorney who was at the forefront of the Gay Awareness movement.
Lydia took the lead now. "Erika? Get your clothes on. We're going to take Lania back to your place. She can stay there until the Dirkster clears our of her place." One could see why it was that Lydia got things done: Command Presence. "Lania? Here's your shoes. Let's go down to the car and wait for Erika. You won't have to cross paths with Dirk again today, anyway."
As Lydia and Lania headed out the door, I stopped Lania and gave her a hug and a purposefully chaste kiss on the cheek. I didn't want to ruin my chances by trying to get too familiar too quick. "EGBOK, kiddo!" I tried to keep it light, "Everything Gonna Be OK!"
Just then Erika came down the hallway in her half-zipped party dress trying to stuff her rolled-up panty hose into her purse with one hand while at the same time trying to put her shoes on her bare feet with her other hand. That required more eye-hand coordination than I would have been able to muster but Erika seemed to manage, in a hop-skip-and-jump fashion.
Off the girls went down the steps having uncorked a fountain of chatter about…well you can guess. I faintly heard someone say, "Dirk, that son of a bitch, "as they closed the door behind them.
I went into the kitchen and poured myself a cup of coffee and stood there drinking it trying to construct an island of calm in the midst of a sea of confusion.
I finished that cup and went to pour another when Gary and Dirk trooped out in the reverse fashion of the way they trooped in. This time Gary carried the suitcases and Dirk carried the two-suiter and athletic bag. They didn't say anything, not even thanks, suck my dick, or anything. The door slammed behind them as they left. I half expected one of them would come back and say goodbye but that didn't happen. But I have a feeling I am going to run into them again sometime.
So that's what happened this morning! Whew! I am a little worn out.
Hey! I just noticed that Lania left her purse behind on the couch. I guess she was in more of a hurry than I thought to clear out and not confront Dirk again. I will have to give Erika a call and arrange to drop the purse off at her place.
But first I am going to take a nap. I think I deserve one, don't you?