Betting People: Casanova
By Maximillian Excaliber
Introduction
This is a collection of erotic stories about people who find themselves in some rather unique wagers. The plots are straight forward and intended to get you asking yourself, "I wonder if this could ever really happened?" No matter how you answer that question, just try to imagine that in some universe somewhere it did and I think you'll find them enjoyable.
Max
Chapter One -- "Fugly"
"I still don't understand what she sees in him." Kimberly Long said to David Blackfoot. She was walking through the front door of her small, two bed-room house when she'd said it.
They lived together in her Early Twenty-Century style home. It was located in one of the lower-middle income areas of the city of Columbus Georgia.
David was Kimberly's boarder and had been living there for almost two years. He'd moved in with her when the lease at his old apartment expired. When his landlord raised the rent, she'd offered to let him rent a room from him until he could another place to stay.
They had worked together for three years as security guards for a private security firm and she felt that she knew him well enough at the time to trust him. Six months later, when her judgment proved correct, she invited him to stay as long as he liked.
David accepted immediately.
When working, their relationship was strictly professional; when not, it was one of platonic friendship. But lately, even though they got along well together, both secretly felt there was something odd going on in their relationship. Although, neither of them knew exactly what it was, neither was comfortable enough to talk to the other about it.
One night late in September Kimberly and David were returning home from the wedding of a couple of mutual friends of theirs.
The bride was a gorgeous red-head in her middle thirties; and the groom was a homely, almost ugly looking, man in his late forties. She was six feet tall and had the hour-glass figure of a Playboy Bunny. He was five foot nine and had the physique of an accountant... no muscles and a small pot belly. As a couple, they were hard to imagine.
The newlyweds had chosen to break with convention and have a themed wedding. The theme they chose was 'Contemporary Mardi Gras'. Everyone attending was required to dress as though they were going out for a night of fun and frolicking at the annual New Orleans festival.
David was attired in a black pirate costume he had rented from a local party supply store. To his amazement, Kimberly had gone to the wedding dressed more provocatively than he'd ever seen her before. She was wearing a sheer, nearly see-through, white blouse and emerald green mini-skirt, matching green fish-net stocking sand green Go-Go boots. The fact her nipples were visible through her blouse advertised that she wasn't wearing a bra.
David had been even more amazed when, upon arrival at the wedding, he discovered that Kimberly's ensemble was actually quite tame in comparison to those worn by the other women there.
When they returned home, as soon as he got in the door, David turned around and locked it behind him. He'd done so just in time to see her bend down and take her shoes off. Kimberly was standing in front of the shortest part of the three-piece sectional in the center of her living-room. Self-consciously, he became aware that he was staring at here and tried to remember what it was she'd last said. After a few tense moments, it came to him. "Did you ever think that he might be great in bed?"
"In what universe?" Clearly she didn't believe him.
He sat on the other end of the couch and told her, "You said it yourself, he's 'fugly'. So, either he's a great conversationalist, which we both know he isn't, or he's fantastic in the sack. What else can it be?" The implication was obvious for they both knew that the word 'fugly', was slang for 'fucking ugly'.
"Money?" She suggested.
He countered, "No, I did both their tax returns last year; she makes double what he does."
"Then what is it?"
Without a second's hesitation, David answered, "My guess is he has a silver tongue." It was a subtle reference to the groom's skills at performing cunnilingus.
"Didn't you say he isn't a great conversationalist?" Kimberly looked confused. Obviously, she didn't get the reference.
Realizing that she wasn't following him, David told her, "That's not what I was talking about."
"Then what are you..." She started to ask. Her expression changed and her eyes widened knowingly. "Oh, I see!" She considered it, then added, "Nobody can be that good."
David said, "You're wrong." And then muttered under his voice, "Some of us are."
"Us?" She heard him! Before he had time to think of something to say, she asked, "What do you mean us? Are you trying to tell me that..."
He said to Kimberly, "Honey, I can have a woman begging for it so fast it makes her head spin!"
Kimberly jumped to her feet and turned as if she were leaving the room.
Unsure what was happening, David asked, "Hey, where are you going?"
"I'll call you from my bedroom."
Confused, he asked, "Why?"
"Because this one's getting too small!" Kimberly answered with a straight face.
Confused, David asked her to explain, "Too small?"
"That's right! There's not enough room in here for you, me and all that bullshit you're spreading!"
What Kimberly didn't know was that David was in love with her. He had been for the past two years and, wanting her, had stopped dating other women.
The problem was that Kimberly, majorly overly confident in her own perceptions of people, had seriously misjudged him. She had perceived his not dating as a lack of self-confidence, which it wasn't.
He'd tried repeatedly to tell her that he had no such problem but, she stubbornly refuse to believe him.
In fact, he'd been asked out several times and had declined every offer.
So it was that, when he said to her, "I'm telling the truth." he knew with certainty that she wouldn't believe him.
"Dream on Casanova!"
It hurt his pride. "You don't believe me?"
"Hell no! Besides, I don't find you that attractive." She told David, causing him to think to himself, 'She just admitted she finds me attractive!'
To Kimberly, her words had made her sound vain and hurtful. She regretted saying them as soon as they left her mouth.
Confidently, David insisted, "It's not about looks Honey. It's about raw, hair pulling, sheet grabbing, erotic sex."
"Says the man who hasn't had a date since in two years ago."
What David said was, "Did it ever occur to you that might be by choice and not lack of offers?"
"Offers? Are you trying to tell me you've had women asking you out?" She sounded disbelieving. "Are you off your medication again? Don't make me have a couple of the boys come over here and hold you down again."
It was another poor attempt at humor, to which David responded, "You wouldn't be making jokes if you knew what you've been missing!"
"Fine then, show me?"
Since to her, talking to him was about as useful as beating a dead horse, she wanted to end the conversation. Kimberly had decided to bluff in the hopes that she might finally get through to him.
He played her words back in his head again... twice! Even after doing so the second time, he still wasn't sure he'd heard her right. "What did you say?"
"I'll tell you what, I'll bet my extra copy of 'Please, Please, Help Me' against your mint condition original 'That's All Right' that you're wrong."
Now at this point it's important to know that collecting vinyl records was a hobby they both shared and, that the prize of David's collection was a 45 rpm recording of the song "That's All Right" by Elvis Presley. The record was in mint condition and had an appraised value of $10,000.
From the moment she found out he had it, Kimberly had been trying to buy or barter it away from him, which was also about as long as they'd known each other. She'd even tried to get him to wager it in their weekly poker game!
Her most recent attempt had been two weeks prior when she'd offered him one of her two 'mint condition' copies of The Beatles 'Please, Please, Help Me' and $5,000 cash. It was, for the most part, a fair deal as 'Please, Please, Help Me' was selling for about $5,750 on the collector's market and the total value of what she was willing to trade was $10,750. It hadn't been enough incentive for him and he'd turned her down. The Elvis record was, after all, his most prized possession.
He was astonished, first because of what she wanted to wager for and second because of what she wanted to wager on. "Is that your idea of a better offer?"
"I'm totally serious. If you're really everything you say you're are, you've got nothing to lose!"
He told her bluntly, "I have more to lose than you do. Besides, how do I know you won't change your mind as soon as you think I winning and try to call off the bet?"
Kimberly was confident that David would never accept the wager. Since she usually won when they played poker, Kimberly was as sure of her ability to tell when he was bluffing as she was her own to out-bluff him.
'Besides, she thought to herself, he loves that record too much to risk loosing it'.
"Follow me!" Kimberly turned back around and, without saying another word, started walking intently down the hallway.
David stood there alone listening to the click-clack sound of her heels as she walked and tried to decide what to do. About three seconds later, curiosity got the best of him and he took off after her.
By the time he caught up with her, Kimberly was standing in front of the dresser. It was on the left side of her room.