My lover moved out yesterday, out of my home, out of my life. After more than a year together, he had become secretive and distant, seemingly happier on his own than when sharing my company. He had begun to spend whole weekends by himself, climbing mountains, surfing at the beach. Perhaps it was my fault for letting him go away each time, believing a touch of distance would make us grow mutually fonder. The sex had become increasingly masturbatory: our standard routine consisted of me sucking him for a while, then him going down on me in return before putting it in and moving in and out for a few minutes, then him withdrawing and kneeling over my thighs, rubbing his balls and jerking off his purple prick wet with my juices as I used both hands on myself, him coming in great white spurts over my breasts and chin then smoothing it into my skin and sucking hard on my nipples as I rubbed until my own satisfaction came in quiet ripples.
He didn't understand how I could complain when I came every time - I truly enjoyed his tongue lapping me and his hands rubbing his hot semen all over my breasts - but for me, it just wasn't a true ritual of quality love-making.
How painful now to recall the day he arrived at my door in answer to my request for a housemate on a shopping centre noticeboard. I was a physiotherapist in my late thirties, he was a school groundsman in his mid-twenties; I preferred baroque music, he liked '70s hard rock - in so many ways we were opposites, and yet I knew he personified the strength and security I wanted with me inside my house.
He was young and active, sensitive to my need for space, generous in doing his share of the housework, and, I confess, his honed body was indeed mouth-watering. Watching him walk to and from the bathroom in his satin boxers or a mere wet towel day after day, listening to the gentle squeak of his bedsprings on the other side of my bedroom wall as he masturbated himself to sleep - it wasn't long before he began to appear regularly in my fantasies. Each time I lay in bed giving myself pleasure with well-rehearsed fingers, I recalled his face on the two or three occasions when he had walked in unexpectedly to catch me in only my underwear. Each time, the flicker of his eyes over my scantily clad form had suggested initial amusement backed by unmistakable lust. But each time, he merely excused himself and left the room.
My enjoyment of undressing him mentally was undeniable, and, fuelled by the frequent raucous suggestions of my visiting female friends as to what they'd be doing with a housemate like him, our domestic atmosphere became saturated with sexual tension, steadily increasing in pressure right up to the night when my scream caused by a sudden thunderbolt in the storm outside brought him running into my bedroom.