I felt her hands reach down, from the side of my torso she moved toward my midline, straight to my belt buckle. My bulge pulsed with vigor.
With my hands still above her shoulders, I returned her unflinching stare. There was a fire in those eyes, and it burned, I could feel it consume me from the inside, the yearning, the torture of waiting, an eternity had passed before her hands pulled the spare end of my belt from its resting place.
Her other hands slid past the one at the buckle, feeling the length of my cock, I wanted to smile at her and then say, "Look what you made me do," but I couldn't, I just stared helplessly into her eyes, every new touch an orgasmic feeling that paralysed even further.
KNOCK KNOCK.
I didn't hear it, hence my surprise when she stopped abruptly.
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK.
It came again. This time I heard it.
I let out a sigh, relieved and angry at the same time. At least she didn't change her mind, "Could it be a sign from the gods," a small voice whispered in my head. I shoved the stupid thought down the hole from whence it came. "Stupid voice."
I almost forgot I was still staring at this goddess below me, I wasn't going to answer whoever was at the door. But then she smiled at me and asked, "Aren't you gonna get that?"
"Mother!..." I yelled in my head and smiled.
I dragged myself from over her, I could see her laugh even though she tried to hide it, she saw right through me.
"Who's there?"
"Who do you think?" Another voice I knew too well, if not for anything, for the constant visits from her for the past few months. It was nothing romantic, not even platonic, just business.
I opened the creaky metal door to the face of my landlady, her face held no smiles, none hide behind any corners.
"I know too many hot girls," was the first thought in my mind.
Her hands were on her wide hips, her thin lips in a mild pout, her chin stiff.
"Hey!" I nervously croaked, trying desperately to hide my bulging ache and calm the storm that had arrived at my door.
"It's been 4 months Kyle."
"I know Jessie, I just... things haven't been going well for me."
"You said that 3 months ago."
"I know, I'm doing this best I can."
"I know. That's why you've got one month, after that, I can't help you anymore."
My mind raced to the future, could I pull this off? I couldn't tell. I wanted to ask for more time, another month, maybe two, but my pride had taken too much of a beating these past few months.
Interview after interview, a new failure each time. No one wanted an architect who had worked with "Winter A.", my former firm. A few cheap materials here, a little skimmed off the top there, and the next thing you know 6 highrise buildings collapsed in a week.
I had just gotten promoted when it happened. My mum had been so happy, said I was blessed. But I was just the patsy they had chosen to take the fall, I found out too late. By the time I had seen the books, bodies were already in the ground. I quit my job that same day, death threats and hate mail every day, I had to change my apartment, with most of my money spent on lawyers this was all I could afford, well, not anymore.
Turns out people don't always want the truth, sometimes they just need someone to blame. And I fit the bill. Fucking idiots! I couldn't really blame them though.
"Okay, thank you." I resigned.
She stood there for a few seconds as if contemplating what to say next, I tried to remember if I owed her any money, I didn't.
"Your mum's in the hospital."
Suddenly that worry in my mind turned to fear, my rod now a shriveling mass of tissue.
"Her doctor called, said he couldn't reach you."
Of course, he couldn't, I had changed my line. It scared me because it meant that maybe my mum couldn't tell him that.
"Thank you," I said as the hurried back into my room.
Then I saw her again, sitting on the bed looking right at me, my heart jumped again.
I opened my mouth to narrate...
"I heard what she said, lets go," she said as she stood from the bed.
I couldn't help but smile.
"Okay, but I have to take a shower first," I ran into the tiny passage that led to the bathroom and kitchen.
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The air always smelt like antiseptic, as if there was some conditioner somewhere constantly pumping chunks of the stuff into the air.
"Nurse Geraldine, your attention is needed in the obstetrics ward... immediately," said a female voice from the PA system.
I stared at the clock on the wall, "4 hours," I thought to myself.
I hadn't been standing for too long, but it felt like ages. The anxiety was making me sweat in the air-conditioned waiting room.
I turned my attention back to the doctor, he was bespectacled, mild-mannered, and was currently thinking of a way to relay some awful news to me. I could tell from the way he had been avoiding my eyes since he stepped into the waiting room.
Doctor Victor Alba, immigrated here a few years ago, he was one of the best, which was what scared me.
"Doc, how bad is it?" I asked.
"I'm sorry."
"Don't tell me that doc, there's gotta be some good news. Please doc, anything."