Brad Allen slumped over his computer. He dropped his head onto his hands, closed his eyes, and listened to his heart pounding. He didn’t yet understand if it was due to fear of total failure or anger. He hurt badly enough that he wasn’t yet quite sure of his emotions.
He had just checked the comments on his latest story on the net.
Dear Brad,
Your grammar is awful, as is your spelling, and you need to learn to write properly before you try writing anything else. Excuse me if you think me rude, but to pretend to be a writer, your skills should be at least mediocre. Yours are poor, to say the most. Please educate yourself in the ways of punctuation and try again some other time.
Sincerely,
Not a Fan
Jeannie knocked on the door, just as he threw his coffee cup across the room and as it hit the wall, he hollered,
“Damn it to hell anyway, who needs this shit.”
She pushed the door open, and asked, “Safe to come in now?”
She was balancing a tray with coffee and a birthday cake alight with candles. It was Brad’s fortieth birthday. He had effectively started a whole new life in the last six months. He was now sober and again divorced. She knew he had forgotten it was his birthday. They celebrated together every year. That was not going to change this year.
He looked up and smiled at the cake.
“How do you manage to do it?” He asked.
“Do what” she countered with her own smile.
He stood and took the tray from her placing it on the small table near his daybed. “Manage to make me feel better on the worst of days?”
He saw the tears swell in her eyes and suddenly understood something that had escaped him up to this moment. This woman wasn’t just a friend. This woman, God knew why, loved him. He walked over and gently took her in his arms and kissed her for the first time.
She responded with all the love in her heart. He shivered at the heat of his response. It had been a long while since Brad had wanted a woman, he wanted this one. He felt his heart swell with longing to hold her, and give her a little of the sweetness she had brought into his life.
“Jeannie? He pushed her away. “You might be in trouble if we keep this up.”
She reached and pulled her T-Top over her head. “It’s about damn time you noticed I was female you thick headed son of an Irishman.”
He reached and cupped her two upstanding breasts in his hands and bent his head to suck them. She was burning hot to the touch and her nipples peaked with the slightest attention. He could already smell her arousal and feel his. It felt good to be wanted it had been too long.
Jeannie and Brad had grown up together. When Brad’s second wife got a restraining order and he was forced to move out of his home, he had no money, no job and he was a drunk. Jeannie never hesitated. She took him home, dried him out, sent him to AA, and bought him two packages of typing paper and a used typewriter. He had since graduated to a computer.
She had held him on the long nights when he screwed up and got drunk and maudlin, and had cleaned up after him, and fed and kept him sane. She was a hard driving little mite of a woman who handled his big frame and bigger ego like it wasn’t anything to worry about at all.
He bent over picking her up he carried her to the day bed. He placed her on it, as gently as you might a brand new baby and pulled her sweat pants down and off her legs. She had on the prettiest lace panties he had ever seen. He stood and yanked his shorts off. Now except for her panties, they were both nude.