Afterwards, Lin, Tom, and the bed looked like a bomb filled with baby oil, piss, and cum had hit them. They were lying there wrecked. The 5 PM alarm went off and Lin barely moved.
"Tell me what happened when you went off together today."
"Why do you want to talk about another woman?"
"She's not some other woman. She's like my own heart, as are you. I need to know how my heart is doing. I know that hearing about it will probably sting. That's not as important to me as the comfort of knowing the natural order of things is being restored."
"All right. We walked to the park. We didn't really say anything at first. We just looked at each other a lot and smiled a lot. She was trembling a little. I might have been trembling, too, but I was trying my best to hold it together. She handed me the bacon Poke Ball. We sat down on a bench to eat our Poke Balls, but neither of us were really hungry.
"I asked her what she did for fun. She mentioned that she liked to make cosplay outfits and model them on Instagram. She showed me her Instagram account. So many followers! And I could see why." Tom dragged himself over to the side of the bed, fumbled around with his pants on the floor, retrieved his phone, and brought up a picture of Huan in a skin tight Starfleet uniform that he showed to Lin.
"Oh Em Gee!" exclaimed Lin, "That doesn't leave much to the imagination!" Who would have guessed that her shy young employee was a famous Internet slut?
"If you think that's hot, look at this." Tom showed Lin a picture of Huan in a blond wig, a white one-piece bathing suit, and white arm and leg warmers. She was holding an old timey bowling ball type bomb in one hand and had an apple on her head. Her other hand was making a peace sign.
"Well I can see she must trim at least."
"Oh, she's shaved."
"How do you know?"
"You'd see a dark patch in this bathing suit, but there isn't one, so no muff. A man knows these things."
"All you men are obscene. How much does she get paid for this?"
"Nothing. It's just a hobby."
Lin just looked at Tom incredulously. Well, maybe she was getting something out of it. Perhaps she was getting a husband.
"Anyway, that's her main hobby. So I asked her whether she was planning on going to the anime convention in town this weekend. She said she had never been to a convention because of all the stories of girls without escorts getting mauled. So I showed her two tickets I already had in my wallet that were for George and me, but George will understand, and I asked her to go with me. Then she really started trembling and said yes."
"After that, it was all about what outfit to wear. I'm not much of a cosplayer, so my only real outfit is a Star Trek Discovery outfit. Of course she had one too. Cosplay is a big deal for her. She was trembling so much, I offered to rub her shoulders to calm her down."
"Did she accept?"
"Yes..."
"Did it calm her down?"
"In a sense. She kept saying it felt really good. We agreed to meet in front of the shop in costume tomorrow morning at 9 AM. We exchanged contact information. Then it was time for her to go back to the shop. I gave her a kiss, and then she was gone. That's all that happened."
"About what I'd guessed, based on what she told me. She didn't mention the massage or the kiss."
"It was just a harmless little shoulder massage."
"Yeah, right. I know all about your massages."
Lin was still ready for Bruce by the time he returned home at 6:00. She had gotten very skilled at obliterating all traces of her secret life with Tom from her body and their home, other than the heartbreak. This time, when Bruce called out his customary cheery greeting of "Who wants to be punished?" Lin answered sadly, "Not me."
"It looks to me like somebody's already gotten punished," remarked Bruce. "Let me know if there's anything I can do to help." After that, since he knew when Lin didn't want to talk, he headed for his study. Lin hid in the kitchen and cried bitter tears, and it helped a little.
That evening, Lin was wetter than usual for Bruce, but he was obviously affected by her sad and fretful mood. She was throwing her sweet husband off his game, and that wouldn't do either. She laid him down, took his cock into her mouth, and started bobbing up and down on it. This was not the usual way she did oral sex on him, and she was hoping it would distract him away from her mood and allow him to cum. When he started to writhe and buck, she climbed onto him. Although this position hurt her legs because he was such a big man to straddle, she doubted he would last long, and he didn't. Within a few minutes, he shuddered with an orgasm, and that was that.
The next morning, Saturday morning, Lin was more fretful than ever, and she could see it was driving Bruce crazy. Finally, Bruce said, "Let's go see a matinee."
"Okay," said Lin. Anything to distract her would be good.
"I know just the movie."
Lin got ready to go out. She did her hair and put a little makeup on her red puffy eyes.
"Will you wear a skirt?" Bruce asked.
The skirts were for Tom, but Bruce didn't know that. Whatever. She put on a skirt for him.
When they got out to the car and climbed in, Bruce produced the vibrating ball from their play a few nights ago. "Please put this in."
Lin considered Bruce's request. Before Tom, this would have caused a fight that would have them not talking for a week or more. Now that had changed, and she wasn't sad it had changed. In that moment, she cheered up a little as well, because she realized that she was still seeing Tom. In fact, Tom had fucked her four times in the last 24 hours. She was still, for the time being, a terrible unrepentant slut that needed to be punished. She took the ball from Bruce, let him lubricate it a bit from a little bottle in his pocket, and slipped it in.
After they got their popcorn and waters, they sat down near the back row of the theater. Lin had her own light jacket and Bruce's jacket on her lap along with the popcorn. Bruce had his phone out, but the sound was off and the brightness was dialed way down.
As the movie started, Bruce put the device on its lowest setting. It felt to Lin like the thing was an egg, and there was a baby bird inside tirelessly and relentlessly pecking, trying to get out of it. It was a metaphor for her life. Her reward for getting out of the egg, if she ever did, would be to suffocate in the womb.
When the movie reached the part where the girl first sees the boy, Lin startled when the device got a notch more powerful inside her. Now it was a thrumming like she was being played like an instrument and Bruce was a very nasty musician. She tried to ignore it and watch the movie, enjoy the love budding between the actors, enjoy the warmth spreading in her loins from the thrumming.
Several minutes later, the lovers on the screen ran passionately to the girl's bedroom and started tearing each others' clothes off. The device became urgent in Lin. She hadn't realized how excited the device and the lovers' mating dance had made her. Her hips began to undulate reflexively. She knew that trying not to cum would just make it worse, so she just pouted, drank some water, and tried to ignore Bruce, who was watching her. She spread her legs a little to relieve the tension in her hips and tried to keep her eyes focused on the sweet and explicit lovemaking happening on the screen.
When the girl came, Lin did too. It was a very satisfying one, because she knew these characters, and it almost felt like the boy was filling her womb with his passionate seed. She loved the expressions on the lovers' faces. She trembled with aftershocks as the lovers calmed.
She breathed a sigh of relief as the love scene passed and the device also quieted. As the theater lights came on for the intermission, Bruce turned off the device and asked, "Do you want anything, honey?"
"Keep it low, please."
"Okay..." he said, and turned the device back on low. She started. She hadn't meant turn it back on, she had meant keep it low during the movie. Oh well. Whatever. At least she was enjoying the movie. Bruce was also clearly enjoying himself. She could see the tent in his pants. He grabbed his coat off of her lap and put it over his hard-on.
Near the end of the intermission, a very handsome couple in their thirties approached them from Lin's side and asked, "May we sit here?" The wife, who asked for them, was a statuesque redhead. Her husband was a stocky black man with a shaved head and wire-rimmed glasses.
"Of course, welcome," answered Bruce for both of them. The redhead, whose name was Claire, sat at Lin's right hand, her husband Kent next to her, so the men were sitting on the outside and the women next to each other between them. The men chatted a little. Bruce mentioned he was in real estate. Kent worked in the financial sector as an underwriter. Then the lights dimmed and the movie started again.