"Ok, guys, who wants to be first?" the ladies asked simultaneously.
"First!" Shintani exclaimed. "My god, we're too hot to wait in line! Guys, everyone grab someone and let's get started!"
"'Grab,' my ass!" Deborah said. Four or five of the men started toward her, faces alight with eager lust.
"Back off, shitheads!" Helle exclaimed. "She wasn't asking you to grab her ass!"
"Fuck, Helle, that's what she said!" Bluesman protested.
"No, lamebrain, she said 'Grab, comma, my ass!'" Helle shouted. "She meant she didn't want to be 'grabbed' at all!"
"Shit!" Fallen Angel said to the other men. "Why can't women ever fuckin' say what they mean?"
Helle rolled her eyes in disgust. "My god, Laurel, ever wonder if guys' brains are all in their nuts?"
"Don't be too hard on us, Helle," Michael commented. "It's part of our enculturation."
Helle gave Michael the finger.
A few miles from the house, a car drove slowly down the highway. Inside, Rodrigo peered at the surroundings, trying to locate Laurel and Manu's house. XXplorHer had sent him up to supplement Manu's efforts to get the party on film and tape, and to join the festivities, if he liked. The thought of so much warm, luscious flesh had kept him aroused for days. Knowing he must be very near the site of the reunion, he was getting extremely hot.
XXplorHer had misplaced the exact address, but had told Rodrigo to look for a sign that said "Black's Beach."
Presently, Rodrigo saw a sign, and pulled up, hoping he had reached his destination at last. But his face fell in disappointment when he looked at the sign and saw that it said "Black's Beech."
"Shit," Rodrigo said. "Fucking tree nursery." He drove off.
In the back yard, the men were growing desperate, their hard cocks throbbing at the need for relief. "Look, guys," Deborah said, "we'll blow you, but we're not fucking slaves at an auction."
"Hell, who lost the game?" several of the men exclaimed at once.
"Yeah, and who's got teeth in the mouths you want to put your precious cocks in!" Deborah retorted. The men conceded the point.
Dixon took the high road. "Gentlemen, let's be magnanimous in victory. Each of us can choose one of these lovely ladies..."
"Dixon, darling, you're always the voice of reason," Laurel sighed appreciatively.
"'Reason' my ass!" Helle said, grasping Dixon's 13 protruding inches. "This one's mine!" Several of the other women shot her dirty looks.
"Just a moment!" Michael said. "There's no need to show partiality. We'll all be here long enough to enjoy each other at our leisure. Besides, half the appeal of desire is in the imagination."
"Thank you, Socrates," Deborah said. "Now can we cut to the chase before you guys lose your hard-ons? I'm about to go into a convent waiting for this to happen."
"Festina lente," Michael said. "Manu, Laurel, please bring out something we can use for blindfolds. I suggest that everyone be blindfolded-men and women alike. Laurel and Manu can match the partners. The men won't know who is sucking them; the women won't know whose cock is in their mouth."
"God, I knew he was weird," Helle said.
"C'mon, guys," Eve pleaded. "Why can't we all just be friends?"
The women looked at each other; the men did the same. The idea seemed very strange. Mrhappy broke the silence.
"Try it," he said. "C'mon, everyone be a sport. I can't participate, but I'd like to see this."
Laurel went to the hall closet to get some cloths to use as blindfolds.
While they waited, Michael thought about his trip to California from Memphis.
On the way, he had stopped in Albuquerque and, to his surprise, had spotted mrhappy leaving a hotel restaurant. After finishing his own meal, Michael had gone to mrhappy's table, seen his room number on his dinner check, and walked down the hall to his fellow Memphian's room to say hello. When he got there, however, he heard ecstatic cries of "Daddy! Oh, daddy!" coming from the other side of the door. Not wanting to interrupt what sounded like a family reunion, he had decided not to knock.
Michael had gone to the front desk and asked for a local paper to find announcements of special activities. To his surprise, he had read that the Tallis Scholars were in concert that night in the auditorium of the local art museum. A concert dedicated to the works of a 16th century composer of English church music was not necessarily what Michael had expected to find in Albuquerque, and he was so intrigued that he decided to go.
Michael reached the auditorium, took a program, and found a seat. The auditorium was rather small, and there were few seats left; he had to sit near the back. Presently, an attractive woman a few years younger than he, sat down next to him in one of the only seats left.