The first time I saw Kate I thought she was someone's grandmother. Rocking slowly in a hard wooden rocking chair, next to the wood-burning stove some previous tenant had installed in what was left of our living room, she was dressed head to toe in black. She was goth long before goth, minus the hollow emaciation. Black beaded purse, black laced-up 1900's style boots, a black full length, full sleeved, layered 1900's style dress, one of those little round black hats and even a black lace veil. And underneath all that prudish turn of the century wardrobe, was what appeared to be an old woman. She had a heavy, pasty round face, short whitish-blond hair done in a tight curl set, and thick, undefined body underneath.
At the time, I was living in what was colloquially known as the student ghetto -- and older section of rather run down Victorian homes, adjacent to the university, tending to student rentals and the elderly. I shared this mansion of squalor with Jeff, my best friend since high school, another rather eccentric guy named Wally who was almost never around, and Bill the cat. Bill was pure street. He weighed a good sixteen pounds, nothing but muscle, scar tissue and gristle. Dogs coming down the street would detour to the other side if they saw Bill sunning on our porch.
I had just gotten home from work, and pulled Jeff aside. "Is that your grandmother?" I whispered.
Jeff laughed. "Shit no, that's Kate. She's cool."
"Really." I was unconvinced, but accepted it for the moment and went in to introduce myself.
"Anybody got a light?" she asked, pulling a gigantic joint out of her purse as I walked in and sat down next to her. My jaw hit the floor, and everyone else in the room laughed.
"Ok, you guys got me," pulling myself together. "My name's Dan." I pulled out a Bic and fired her up.
"Pleased to meet you," she squeeked out, trying not to let any of the smoke escape her lungs. "Want a hit?" she asked, handing me the doobie.
"Why not? I'm done working for today." I took a toke -- it was some good shit -- and passed it on. "So how did you meet these guys?" I asked her.
I don't recall ever getting a clear answer, but Kate seemed to enjoy visiting us. Every few days she would show up, either to hang out and catch a buzz, or maybe we would all go out to a bar somewhere. Turned out she lived in a little no name burg about twenty miles south of the 'Zoo, and came up regularly in what passed for her social life. She cursed like a sailor, drank like a fish, and always had the best weed. Of course she ended up being part of our gang -- she had enough sarcastic wit to keep up with us, never nagged, she was just fun to be around. She never had a boyfriend, or talked of one, or a girlfriend for that matter. And she didn't seem to care if any of us had a girlfriend, or picked someone up for an evening's recreation. To Wally and Jeff and I, she was just one of the guys.
One night, we heard that Bram Stoker's Dracula would be opening on Friday. Kate, being pre-goth, was dying to see it, but no one else was that interested in what they thought was just another horror film. On the other hand I'd heard that it was pretty good, so I agreed to go with her. Friday night came and we hopped in the car and headed for the drive-in.
Now for those of you who may not be familiar with this film, it was more than just another slasher flick. It's very gothic, yes, which is what I expect attracted Kate to it, and bloody -- very graphic. But it was also romanticized, more in keeping with Stoker's original vision, in that Dracula loved his victims. And the movie was just chock full of kink. "You can't understand life until you fuck it in the liver" is one quote, as the Count has sex with a corpse.
So there we were, blasted on some tasty Acapulco Gold Kate had brought, watching the movie head in directions I never expected, eating popcorn. To this day I don't know if it was the weed, or watching the graphic action on the screen, or the fact that it had been a couple of weeks since I had gotten laid, but suddenly I noticed that my cock started twitching whenever Kate's hand was rooting around in the popcorn bucket in my lap. I hadn't thought of Kate that way, but there was no doubt I was getting a boner. Chalk it up to being young and horny. I suppressed a snort.
"What?" Kate asked.
"Nothing," I replied. "Just a stray thought."
"No, goddamit! I see that smirk. What is it?" she demanded.
"It's nothing, really. Just kind of a fable, something that little boys talk about."
"Tell me or die," she threatened.
"All right. But remember, you asked," I said. "A guy goes to the movies with his girlfriend, and to try and get some action he cuts a hole in the bottom of the popcorn bucket and puts it in his lap, sticking his pecker through the hole. Then when his date reaches in to get some corn, she gets more than she expected." I waited trepidatiously for her reaction.
"You know, that's actually kind of hot." Kate finally replied, surprising me. "Want to try it?"
"Seriously?" I asked, dumbfounded.
"Yeah. I always liked hot buttered popcorn." And after a moment, suddenly shy, quietly, "If you want to..."
So I fished out my pocketknife and started sawing a hole in the bottom of the bucket, trying not to spill any, while she pretended to concentrate on the movie. After a few moments I had everything prepared, pants unzipped, popcorn bucket mounted on my semi-hard cock. Kate scootched over on the seat and started digging into the corn, her eyes still locked on the screen.
Soon enough, her hand brushed the tip of my cock. Even though we both knew it was coming, it was still somehow surprising and my cock twitched in excitement, growing harder.
"Now what is this in my popcorn?" Kate asked, feigning innocence. She felt around in the bucket, her palm cupping the end of my dick while her fingers stroked down the shaft. I was totally turned on -- I couldn't move, couldn't speak. "I'm not sure what it is, but it sure feels good." She continued stroking me, pushing the kernels out of the way. I felt a drop of pre-cum leak onto her hand as she moved it up and down and all around, playing with me.
"I wonder how it tastes," she continued. And with that pronouncement, Kate leaned over and put her head in my lap, sticking her face in the popcorn, and started licking the very tip of my hard-on. "Mmmm, is that some butter I taste?" her tongue swirling over my most sensitive spot, just below the opening, finding another drop of leakage.