I'm not the kind of girl who takes a stranger home to her bed. Not usually.
Don't get me wrong. I've had my share of one-night stands. Only they were with friends of mine, or ex-boyfriends. And it always leads to that awkwardness. Are we together? Are we back together? I swore off the one-night stands. I no longer have the fortitude for breaking hearts.
But I digress.
I've always had a theory that your New Year's Eve will be a good indicator of the upcoming year. This particular New Year had a promising start. I got off work earlier than expected, then stuck around the restaurant where I wait tables part-time to have a drink. Midnight rolled around. Champagne flowed. The ball dropped. I found my tongue entwined with that of the cute bartender I'd had a mild flirtation with. I don't think it's the champagne talking when I say that he was a fantastic kisser. In fact, I may well have wound up taking him home, but for the fact that I don't hook up with friends anymore. Or co-workers for that matter.
Once the revelry had died down a bit, people started drifting out of the restaurant - going home, perhaps, or in search of longer-lasting parties. The cute bartender brought me another free drink with a smile. I smiled back, then surveyed my surroundings as he went off to schmooze the actual paying customers. I noticed a guy watching me from a few seats down. He was cute, in that sort of obviously ironic way. His hair was mussed. He sported a three-day beard, torn jeans, a button-down shirt and a blazer. He was sipping at the last of his drink. When I caught his gaze he held it - he didn't pretend he hadn't been watching me. I found his reaction enticing.
"What are you having?" I indicated his near-empty glass.
"Just a coke. Trying to sober up. You know how the cops are on New Year's Eve." He grinned ruefully.
"I hear you." I hopped up, grabbed his glass, and went around the bar to refill his soda. When I returned, I slid into the seat next to him, reaching over for my Long Island Iced Tea.
"You work here?" He asked.
"Yeah. I'm usually out the door the second my shift is over," I confided. "But parking was a bitch today, so I walked here. Now I've just got to wait for one of my co-workers to finish up and give me a ride home."
"You live nearby?"
"About a mile from here. I'd walk, but you know. All the crazies are out."
"I could give you a ride," he offered. "I assure you that I am not one of the crazies."
I had my doubts about that. The smile he gave me was just a shade predatory. Maybe it was the champagne, but it excited me even more. I checked my watch. It was nearing 1am, and I had to work the next morning. I downed my drink in three long swallows. He cocked his eyebrow, impressed.
"All right. Let's go."
"I'm Jared, by the way," he said as I took him by the hand and led him towards the door.
"Kate."
It took us nearly twenty minutes to get to my place. The streets were still clogged with drunken celebrants and police cruisers. We pulled into my parking lot. Jared rubbed his hands together nervously, or maybe I was projecting, and he was just trying to keep warm. In the small space, I could tell he smelled amazing, like aftershave and cloves. I was taking a mental inventory. It had been nearly six months since my last relationship had ended. Six months without sex. It didn't really bother me so much, but suddenly it seemed a terrible idea to let this good-looking guy who smelled so good drive off into the night.
"Listen." I turned to him. "The traffic is still really bad around here. Why don't you come up, have some coffee, wait for the streets to clear a bit?"
"Yeah, sure, that would be great." I could tell he was relieved that I had invited him up, so he wouldn't have to bust out some transparent line we would both see through.
He followed me up the stairs to my small efficiency apartment, reaching up and touching my hips to steady me when I almost lost my balance in the dark. I switched on the light, put some coffee on, flipped on the stereo and turned on the heat to warm the place up a bit. He stood against the wall, awkwardly taking in the surroundings. I walked up to stand near him. His body heat radiated off him.
"Coffee should be done soon."
"Great."
"I'm sorry I don't have cable or anything."
"Oh, that's cool." He was rubbing his hands together again. I reached up and took them in mine. They were cool and rough.
"I may be able to come up with a way to keep ourselves occupied." I kept his hands trapped in mine as I pressed my body against his. I leaned in to kiss him - a light kiss, but slightly openmouthed.
"Look, I don't want to give off the wrong impression," he began. "But I'm just in town for another four days. I'm visiting my family for the holidays." He watched my face. He was awfully close, but I didn't step back.
"I don't want to give the wrong impression, either." I whispered, leaning closer to his ear. "I don't care how long your in town after this. I'm only in this for tonight."
With that he let any last pretenses of being gentlemanly go. He freed his hands from mine and hauled me up by my shirt, so I was on my tiptoes in front of him. Our eyes were level. I closed mine as he kissed me. He was an aggressive kisser. His mouth forced mine open, his tongue invading my mouth, hot and wet and searching. His beard scratched my face. He kept hold of my shirt as he forced me backwards across the room to my bed, never breaking the kiss. I clung to his shirt just as hard, so that when he pushed me to the bed I pulled him with me, his weight crushing me. I turned my head to gasp for air as he buried his face in my neck, sucking and nibbling down the side, biting gently at my collarbone. I forced my fingers in my mouth and bit hard down on my hand to keep from moaning too loudly.
Jared pulled back and I sat up slightly to allow him to pull off my black t-shirt. He pulled my bra down around my waist, releasing my breasts. His mouth fastened on my left nipple, clamping down with more force than I was accustomed too. He twisted and pinched my right nipple at the same time, and I wriggled and moaned beneath his weight as bolts of pain and pleasure shot through my body. We shifted up higher on the bed so our legs weren't dangling off, and I pulled at the buttons on his shirt while he unfastened my pants and slid them down around my hips, pulling my panties off with them. Without any preliminary he shoved his tongue inside of me, then withdrew it and sucked on my clit. I bucked up, trying to cram as much of myself into him as I could. He shoved a finger in me while he nibbled on my clit, then another, curving them around inside me like a hook so he could manipulate my g-spot. I let out a guttural moan and clamped the muscles of my cunt around his calloused fingers.
"You're a noisy one aren't you," he muttered, as he finger-fucked me harder. I could only grunt in assent. It had been so long since anyone's fingers beside my own had been inside me, I felt like I was about to go crazy from his touch. Without warning he withdrew his fingers and mouth from me, and I whined my frustration. He stood up and unbuckled his belt.
"Maybe we'll just have to put something in your mouth to shut you up, bitch," he said. The gleam in his eye belied his harsh words. He had had me pegged from the time we had walked in the door, maybe sooner. I know what I want, and I go after it, but after a certain point, I don't like to be in charge anymore. I felt a shot of electricity run through my cunt as I realized that he knew what i wanted, what I craved. I stayed silent, wiggling my ass against the bed in involuntary anticipation as he slipped his jeans down, revealing his hard, angry, fat cock. He got back into the bed, and sprawled out on his back, his cock jutting up, twitching, waiting for me.
"Suck it," he commanded, and I eagerly rushed to comply, positioning myself so that my thighs were by his rib cage, so he could see my ass and my dripping pussy as he watched me suck his cock. I licked it all over, soaking it, and reached around to gently squeeze his testicles as I took him all the way in. He was a good size - I could deep-throat him comfortable, but his girth stretched my mouth wide. He couldn't hold back a groan of his own as I alternately sucked and licked his throbbing shaft.
"Now who's the one who needs something in their mouth?" I stopped my ministrations long enough to smart off. I was rewarded with a quick, stinging slap to my ass. The delicious shock of it made me shudder all over.
"Who told you to stop sucking, slut?" He growled. I dove back to the task at hand with renewed fervor. He bucked into my mouth, fucking it, periodically slapping my ass and dragging a finger over my clit, which made me suck him even harder, deeper. he grabbed my left thigh and pulle dit over him so that he could eat me while I sucked him off. I ground my pussy into his face, until he pushed it up higher.
"You like that, don't you slut?" He whispered triumphantly, smacking my ass again, three times in rapid succession. I lost any concentration I had at that point.