Author's Note:
All characters are of the legal age, 18 and over. I didn't write this seriously. I did it just to try to get back into the swing of things, and to try some new things, while I was mentally and emotionally working through some complex life shit. You're all welcome to insist that I'm a terrible person.
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1
It was an exceptionally cold end to February, dropping the country into an icy average - 5 for the better part of a week. The news spoke all day, every day, of emergencies across the nation, all caused by the same old combination of snow and poor preparation.
And it was the climate change conspiracists crying loudest, but ironically because they had been hoping so desperately for an early warm start to spring. Same old...
I live in a major city on the Atlantic coast which is prone to so many weather fronts over the year that mild weather is not to be trusted. We share the blustery storms of the Atlantic and the Irish Sea with our cousins of the Emerald Isle all year round.
We usually finish off the summer on the business-end of a destructive jet-stream that rolls the country flat from south to north. And otherwise we contend with Arctic blasts and the bitter Norwegian fronts all through winter.
People are soft and not just in the head. True to English tradition, even in the face of the media's never-ending war on Trump, we will stop everything and prepare for the apocalypse when we're faced with...
*takes huge intake of air*
WEATHER!!
Even on a heated, warmly lit train, dressed in their finest most comfortable clothes, off to their friendly drinks and hot meals, the curse of winter was never off the lips of those forever blighted by inconvenience.
I was glad the snow had melted just so people could shut the fuck up about their sniffles and cold feet. But secretly I was hoping we'd get that ten degrees temperature drop we were promised, so that they would no longer have the breath to moan.
My then-girlfriend Carrie and I were taking the train to the end of the line outside of town to visit her Facebook friend that Saturday evening. I'd known Sam a few years on and off via the site, but not as much as I had since I got with Carrie six months back.
Carrie had visited her only a couple times but was running short on friends, since she started fucking them off one by one on account of me. I wasn't responsible for that. Carrie was openly paranoid and easily made jealous and insecure when her friends showed me attention.
That made me uncomfortable at times, but I had nobody to blame but myself for as long as I didn't talk to her about it, if not to confront her.
Carrie was a funny one. I got with her because at her best she was a great humorist and communicator, didn't push me, and she was absolute filth in the bedroom. At her worst she was a bickering old woman, which came out as the result of her drinking - just like her high-anxiety.
I was in the mood for a good drink myself though, and was looking forward to meeting Sam, who proved to be the perfect third wheel in our online chats. Hilarity ensued as she, like the both of us, liked to see how far she could push things.
It was starting to look though, in my eyes at least, that Carrie might find reason to hate Sam in the very reasons for which they got along so well. Carrie liked to push things at times. But don't dare push her, even if she pushes you.
2
Carrie was texting on her phone in that absent-minded way that so many people do. Who knows how they switch from one conversation to the other so quickly and frequently. She might have made an ideal switchboard operator, if only the man sat right in front of her was a random caller.
'I am listening you know,' she claimed, but I had given up trying to keep her attention after losing the signal so many times. I knew that badly masked frustration when I saw it on her face. The blood rushed to her face so that she went from being as white as a sheet to a hot shade of pink.
'Who is it?' I inquired a little more patiently.
'What is it with women?' she asked; her most favourite question in the world. I shrugged, not surprised that I didn't even get that one simple answer. None of my business I supposed.
'Sam needs to lay off you tonight,' she remarked. Oh there it was...
'Why are you bothered about Sam?' I asked. What I really wanted to ask was why did she cause bother for herself if she couldn't deal with it? 'You sent that fucking photo,' I reminded her with a soft chuckle, confident that she was being silly.
Social media - maybe not the root of all modern evil, but certainly the most suited vessel. Because Carrie couldn't stop going on about our rampant fuck sessions and how great they apparently were - and particularly her favourite parts of my naked body - that had given Sam the impression that it was open to discussion.
Sam decided, for a drunken laugh, to initiate a private group chat so we could tell her more. It was, at first glance, just one of the women's usual drunken shenanigans. I had two other active private threads going over the course of the five days that group chat continued. One was Carrie telling me that she was getting so fucking pissed off with Sam, and the other was Sam telling me that my girlfriend was fucking crazy.
To show off, Carrie had uploaded a private photo, meant for her eyes only, since she took it. It was a head to toe photo of me, butt-naked, showing off my smooth but masculine posterior. Sam actually played it down and then dared Carrie to show her tits. After a few drinks more, Carrie did indeed show her tits, but in one of her padded black bras.
To keep it humorous, I pulled off a feminine pose and squashed my pecs together, feigning a titty shot complete with nip-slip, and then it seemed we were all waiting on Sam, who did not disappoint. Well, she had bigger tits - I'm guessing a double-F - but hid them modestly in a supportive but still fancy French-styled bra.
'Now let's see the full frontal,' she suggested, which was meant for me, whether she was joking or not. That was when Carrie stopped seeing the funny side, despite the fact that she had sent several of her friends a photo or two of my raging hard-on before.
Those people were notably no longer with us!
'How big is it?' she asked further. I left the discussion. And over the duration of the following days that same group chat came back into action, occasionally joking about when that full frontal was going to come about.
Honestly I have no idea how these drinks happened at all, but we were getting off at the station when Carrie's reply came somewhat late. 'It was innocent to begin with!'
'Innocent in that you posted a nude of me not wanting it to get attention, or innocent in that you thought she'd be too shocked to want to up the ante?' I had to ask. I wasn't complaining about that happening. Sam showed off some pretty impressive cleavage, which gave me some decent wank material.
'It was just a joke,' Carrie tried to assure me. Or was she trying to fool herself? Of course, I had to ask before we put on our poker faces for the night.
'You really don't trust her do you?'