Copyright oggbashan October 2021 (Edited January 2022)
The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
This is a work of fiction. The events described here are imaginary; the settings and characters are fictitious and are not intended to represent specific places or living persons.
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My girlfriend Cassandra is a witch. I should really say 'My EX-girlfriend Cassandra is a witch'.
I liked Cassandra, but her sex drive was and is far more demanding than mine. She wanted sex several times every night and her demands were affecting my health and stamina. I am a competent amateur distance runner with my normal race distance being 1500 metres, I am the county champion and until Cassandra I had hopes of being the regional champion, perhaps the British champion and might even have been good enough to represent the UK at the Olympics -- until Cassandra.
Cassandra's sexual demands affected my running. While with her, my running times consistently slowed by half a minute, and that is disastrous in 1500 metre running. I needed to do better than my previous best times, and I couldn't even match them.
We were sharing a rented flat and Cassandra wanted sex, several times, every night. She went to the meetings of her coven on Friday evenings and afterwards she was even more insatiable. Saturday mornings, and I do most of my competitive running on Saturdays, I was shattered.
I didn't object to Cassandra being a witch. Most of her previous boyfriends had been unbelievers or uninterested which led to the break-ups because Cassandra saw being a witch as an important part of her.
I was willing to support her and sometimes she experimented with her witchcraft on me -- usually spells that affected my perception so I might find myself seeming to be only a foot high, or seeing Cassandra appear as Marilyn Monroe or a Greek Goddess. Since I knew they were illusions and not harmful, I didn't object when I had agreed first. But in the last few weeks before we broke up Cassandra had become increasingly annoyed with my lower sex drive. She had been using spells, without telling me, to enhance my need for sex, and as a result I was even more exhausted on Saturday mornings. After I had to withdraw from running at two important events, I confronted her, and she admitted she had been using spells on me. One thing led to another and on the Sunday, I moved out, temporarily back to my parents while I looked for a place for myself.
Because Cassandra and I had been sharing the flat costs, I, and she, had built up enough deposits to but small places with a mortgage. It took me three months, and would be slightly longer for her, but I was buying my own small flat and Cassandra was intending to buy one in a few months' time. We hadn't seen each other in that time. We knew what was happening through mutual friends who thought we ought to get back together.
I collected the keys to the flat on Wednesday evening. I had taken Thursday and Friday off work to furnish the flat. I hoped to be reasonably straight by the end of Sunday.
On Thursday I moved into my new flat I had help from my younger relations. I had been given some hand-me-down furniture from other relatives and had a pile of flat-pack boxes to unpack and assemble. For the first night, until my new bed would be delivered tomorrow, I would be sleeping on a bed settee handed down from my uncle and aunt who had used it for their recently deceased dog. I had vacuumed it several times, but it still smelled of dog. I was so tired I could have slept on the floor.
On Friday, with my brother Alan's help, we assembled most of the flat-pack items. We still had some to be erected on the Saturday but that would be in the evening. I would be running on Saturday afternoon.
While I had been at my parents' house, I had been missing Cassandra. Going from sex three, often four times, every night to nothing was a shock. I would have liked three of four nights a week and Friday off but that didn't suit Cassandra.
I was missing Cassandra, not for the sex, but for the companionship and conversation. She and I had similar views. Neither of us was involved with any political party but we were both mild conservatives (with a small c). We would talk about events at work, what was on the TV news, what was in the newspapers. We rarely disagreed, and if we did, we might agree to differ instead of arguing about things that didn't matter. If it hadn't been for her sexual insatiability, I would have been happy to stay with Cassandra.
I couldn't talk to my parents very often. Since I had moved our eighteen months ago, and Alan had married three years ago, their social life had taken off. They were out most evenings and generally only around during the day on Saturdays, when I was running. I was also doing all the overtime that was on offer because the costs of buying the flat would empty my back account.
The last payment for overtime had paid for the flat pack furniture and the new bed. Next month's payday would see my bank account with a reasonable credit, but the overtime had come with a complete lack of socialising.
On Saturday afternoon I was pleased to have come close to my personal best in the 1500 metres. I was a few seconds short, but with practice, perhaps I might record a new best time this season. Back at the flat, my brother and I managed to complete most of the flat pack furniture. I might need more in the coming months as I could afford to buy them, but I could live comfortably with what I had.
It was a pain to assemble the new King-size bed because the bedroom was really too small for such a big bed. But I had found that making love to Cassandra in a standard size double was restricting. Now I had a suitable bed but no one to share it with.
After sharing a takeaway Chinese meal with Alan, I had showered and climbed into my new bed. I was asleep almost as my head touched the pillow but dreaming of sex with Cassandra.
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I woke with a start as a heavy body landed on the bed beside me.
"What?" I exclaimed.
"Who are you? How did you get in?" I asked blearily.
"Who am I, Roger? I'm Lilith. Cassandra sent me because she thought you might be lonely."
"But how did you get in?"
I only had one set of keys for the flat. I was going to get duplicates cut during my lunch hour on Monday.
"That doesn't matter. What I want is this."
Lilith's hand had found my erection and was squeezing it gently.
"Come on, Roger. I need you to act, not just lie there."