The day after the barbecue, a Sunday, Paul invited Harry over to watch a pre-season football game with him. Harry was not a fan of football, but he could watch a game, especially if it involved his favorite team, the Redskins. On Sundays, while all the men holed up for the afternoon to grunt and growl and jump up and down like little boys in front of their TV, Harry went to the Gym and soaked up in the Jacuzzi, reading the book review section and opinion pages of the Sunday paper. He loved the fact that the gym was deserted and quiet, and he spent hours there, relaxing.
He stayed at Paul's for more than four hours and came back smiling and shaking his head.
"That Paul is one of a kind," he said, as he took off his shoes. "A strange bird, to be sure, but a good man."
He kept shaking his head and smiling.
"You know what he did?" he asked. "He gave me a PowerPoint presentation about his wife!"
I looked at him with confusion.
"Well, his wife gave him permission to share his tapes with me, but he said that he needed to give me some context before he showed me the tapes."
I still didn't understand.
"I have some fresh Jasmine tea in the kitchen if you want," I said.
He went to the kitchen and poured himself a small cup of tea and came back to the living room, sipping loudly.
"Aah..." he sighed with satisfaction and sat down facing me, "healthy."
"He wanted me to know all about his wife and so he gave me a PowerPoint presentation about her," he nodded and raised his eyebrows.
"He fired up his laptop and hooked it up to a projector and went through forty slides about his Carol."
"Was she there?" I frowned.
"No. Well, she was in the house and came down to greet me, and then came back down later with some buffalo wings and we chatted for a couple of minutes, but she wasn't there during the presentation."
"Did she know that he was doing a PowerPoint presentation about her?"
"Yes, she sure did. Paul told her before she went back up that he was doing it and she smiled at me and said, 'Well, I hope you enjoy it, Harry.' You can't imagine, Pat, how sweet and friendly that lady is. She was so eager to make me comfortable and kept asking me if I needed anything."
I nodded. I had felt that too when we were at the party. She spoke to me politely and listened to what I said and asked me several thoughtful questions, paying attention to what was in my hands and offering me more food and drink when I was running out.
"It took a whole hour for him to go through the presentation. He started by where and when Carol was born -- she is thirty seven. He talked about her parents and her two brothers. He talked about where she went in elementary school and showed me pictures of her when she was a little girl. Then he spent a few slides on her high school days, pointing out the boys she dated and slept with, and dedicated a whole slide on the boy who took her virginity, a certain Stew who apparently lives in the area and is married with children, and with whom they have kept a close contact. She slept with seven boys in high school, Pat, can you imagine? Seven! Paul said that the high school days always set the tone for the rest of your life."
I was sipping my tea and listening intently. Harry got up, walked to the bathroom and came back with a towel. He then spread it carefully on the sofa seat, took his shorts and underwear off, and sat down. His cock was up and throbbing.
"I've had an erection all afternoon, and my cock needs some air," he said, and then sighed and leaned back as he fanned his cock and balls with his hand.
"You probably should ejaculate soon," I said, "otherwise you are going to get Blue Balls Syndrome. And you know how painful that is."
"Yes," he nodded, and then started rubbing the tip of his skinny penis.
"You know, she lost her virginity when she was fifteen?" he said, and then spit on his hand and began to masturbate in earnest, squeezing his cock and biting his lips.
"In college, she had four steady boyfriends, the last one Paul. She had a lot of sex -- far more than the average -- and Paul showed me some statistics. She was an outlier, having sex three times more than the median."
"He said, 'Carol is sweet, but she loves men. I say 'men' and not just 'sex'. She could go for months without sex -- she can be a camel when it comes to sex. But not men. She loves men."