Liz McDonald lasted three days before she called Deidre. "I've got to talk to you. Rover's, half-six."
When Deidre arrived at the appointed time, she found Liz huddled in her seat, chain-smoking, two empty glasses in front of her and a third on its way. Her face was hollow, drawn and there were dark circles under her eyes. Without looking up, Liz began. "I don't know what to do. I can't sleep. I can't eat. All me waking hours are just spent thinking about him. Thinking about what he, what we, did."
"Liz, I understand," offered Deidre.
"Understand? Understand?" Liz's face snapped up, glaring. "I bet you fucking understand all too well! You and him set me up!"
"Shush, Liz, calm down," said Deirdre in a low voice, sitting down opposite Liz.
"You fucking calm down! You knew, you must have known! You knew the effect it'd have on me, didn't you?" Liz's voice was lowered to a hiss. "I'm going out of my mind!"
"Liz, honestly, I know exactly what you're going through. Look, let me guess. At first you were hurt, shocked and scared, yes? But then you started getting, how can I put it? 'Feelings', didn't you? Deep inside, wherever Rafiq'd been in you? Am I right?" Liz nodded dumbly. "And you're permanently horny, aren't you?" Liz nodded again. "And even though you hate the bastard, you want him all the time. don't you?"
Liz' eyes widened. "How do you know this stuff" she asked.
"Because I've been there. Because I was exactly the same as you after I first met him. Look, I know, I admit it, I set you up and I misled you. I didn't explain everything about when I first met him. Well, I didn't explain a bloody lot if the truth be told. But I promise you I'm going to be completely honest with you now." Liz made a snorting noise."
"Liz, please, just hear me out. It'll explain everything and hopefully by the end of it you'll be in a better position to decide what to do next."
"'Do next'? I haven't got a bloody clue what to do next! I can't even think straight!"
"Then just listen." Deidre took a large gulp of her drink. "It was when I'd gone off on holiday, like I said. I was fed up, feeling unloved and well and truly over the hill round here. I thought that a fresh scene might snap me out of it but by the end of the first week I was feeling even worse. I don't know what I thought I was expecvting or really who I was trying to kid, but night after night I just sat at that bloody hotel bar, getting pissed. One night I caught sight of myself in a reflection and I really thought that was it: just a plain, middle-aged frump in a dress too short for her age. I could have cried right there and then. Anyway, I sat down as usual at the bar, ready to drown my sorrows and just wait until it was time to come back home. I really can't tell you where or when he turned up, but suddenly, he was just there, Rafiq, sat next to me. He introduced himself, offered to buy me a drink and although I didn't know him from Adam, we got chatting. I must say, I was flattered, but I didn't think for a second he'd be interested in me in any way, he was young, fit-looking and drop-dead gorgeous. I just couldn't take my eyes off him though and you can imagine the thoughts that were going through my mind. then -and I think this is the crucial bit- he leaned forward and put his hand on my thigh, just as a casual gesture on the face of it. But, and I'm embarrassed to say it even now, I was already dripping wet. I put my hand on his and pulled it further up. Honestly, what was I thinking? I really thought he'd just make his excuses and leave, but he didn't. Instead he just slid his hand all the way up me, you know, inside me. I practically fainted with the feeling and that was it, I was away! I think he had to half carry me out of the bar, I must have looked a right sight: this half-drunk British woman slobbering all over this handsome young local stud. I didn't care though, right then all I wanted in the world was to get him back to my room and just let him do what he wanted to me!
"We got to the lift and once inside he was all over me, my mouth, my boobs, knickers pulled to one side and his hand grinding into me. Honestly, I think if anyone had walked in we'd have been arrested." Liz imagined the scenes in still snapshots: the first glances at the bar, big smiles, lots of eye contact, Rafiq's hand on Deirdre's thigh, her eyes half closed as he fingers her pussy. Inside the lift, Deirdre's face contorted into a grimace of pleasure, eyes squeezed shut, mouth wide open, with Rafiq's hands all over her, skirt up to her waist, thrusting herself down on his hand.
"We got to my room and I just went straight down on him, no words, nothing, I was just greedy for every last inch of him and good god, what a shock I got when I saw the size of him! But I just swallowed down on it like I was starving, which, by then I was!"
"I'll bet" said Liz, spitefully.
"He came pretty quickly and I have never known so much cum! It was just dribbling out of my mouth, I could barely swallow it all down. It didn't seem to bother him in the slightest though, he just pulled me up and practically threw me onto my back on the bed, my legs were wide open and he just pulled them even wider as he positioned himself over me. Only then, only at that moment did I have a doubt as to what I was doing, with this, this stranger about to enter me. But then he did and, ooooooh, the feeling! It was like nothing I'd ever known before! It felt so good I could hardly believe it! He was fucking me, well and truly fucking me! Deep, deep inside me, all the way in, sliding all the way into me, deeper and deeper! And me, I was just a randy, rabid little slut for it, grabbing and scratching him all over, wrapping my legs around him, pulling him deeper and harder into me."
Deirdre stopped abruptly.
"Go on," said Liz, a hardness to her voice, "though I bet I can guess what happened next."
"That's when he did it," continued Deirdre flatly, "without saying a word, he just turned me over and raped me. Anally raped me."