Content notice:
The following story contains depictions of negative body image, weight stigma, and diet talk.
I've done my best to portray these issues with empathy and sensitivity. Beauty comes in every size, and a joyous, fulfilling sex life is the privilege of anyone who wants one.
That said, if you're someone who prefers to avoid such things altogether, you might try one of my other stories instead.
The characters depicted in the following story are all 18 or above. One of the themes involves sexual liaisons between young adult women and much older adults in a position of relative power over them.
The inclusion of this theme is for storytelling purposes only. It is not a comment on the advisability of such relationships in real life.
The Author
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M.U.F.F., Part IX
I tell Alex everything.
I start with that day we went shopping, recapping things she already knows. About my dissociative fantasy in the mirror. About fucking myself as Rob, fucking myself as her, fucking myself as Mr. Robinson.
The fact that I'm standing behind her, that she's interacting with me in the form of my reflection standing behind hers--just far enough back for her to see my body, on purpose--doesn't escape her, I'm sure.
I get to the end of what she knows.
Until now, she's refused to turn around. I take her hand gently, like a child, and ask her to sit down on the bed with me before we move on.
We sit on the edge of the bed. I try to sit right up next to her, our legs touching, but she sits just a little too far away.
I want her to look at me, to let me show my nakedness to her. She stares straight ahead instead, into the middle distance.
I tell her about the hotel date with Mr. Robinson. And, knowing that it might hurt both of us, I confess to her that it was moments after we kissed in the car.
She doesn't say anything. Her shoulders visibly tense up.
I tell her about my rampage--the months-long spree of sleeping with every boy I could get my hands on.
I tell her about Rob. I tell her he told me that he had hung out with her, but that they didn't do anything. I tell her I sucked his cock in his car. I tell her I'd have no qualms about doing it again.
I tell her about dipping my toes into online dating, about contemplating a woman who reminded me of her, and subsequently discovering an abundance of older men with perversions of all kinds.
I do my level best to remember, in order, the progression of new sex acts I experienced, starting with eating Christopher's ass. (I don't name names at this point.) About drinking his piss in the shower.
About coming to love anal. About learning to massage a prostate. About the odd, not at all unpleasant experience of role-playing a dehumanization scene, of letting my body be poked, prodded, suckled.
At some point, she started glancing at me. By now, she's actively staring, her pretty eyes wide and incredulous.
I tell her I started accepting "gifts" for sex, how I came to expect them, and how I now regularly arrange "dates" that require payment up front.
I tell her about Darla.
For some reason, thinking of that night induces me to wax nostalgic, going into experiential detail, more so than my rote documentary recounting of the men. I talk about how Darla made me rethink things.
There's something different in Alex's eyes as I tell her about Darla, some spark in there that wasn't there before. She's not really looking me in the face. She's sweeping my body. I don't call her out on it.
I'm enjoying being looked at.
I tell her about the party I have booked in a few weeks--though I keep the specifics of the plan private. Those are still being worked out. But I tell her in no uncertain terms why I'll be there.
Finally, I get to the part I've been avoiding, the part I'm convinced will make her think I've cooked all this up as a way of getting back at her for the grand lie she's perpetrated.
I tell her about my experience with the Robinsons at their house.
She says nothing. I search her face, wait for her to break out in laughter, to turn red, to call "bullshit." But she doesn't.
"Well," she finally says. "This is a lot to process."
I think she believes me.
"I'm sorry," I tell her, though I'm not sure what about.
"Why are you telling me all this?"
"I guess..."
I really don't know.
Then it comes tumbling out.
"I guess because none of this would have happened without you," I say. "There are lots of things I discovered about myself very quickly, because you pointed me in the right direction."
"I did?"
"I think you did. At least, my impression of you did."
"But it was all a lie."
"I know. But I believed it when I needed to. I don't need it anymore."
She pauses, as if carefully considering what she's about to say next.
She says, "Are you sure this is right for you? Do you feel like you have to be this way?"
I laugh. "I've thought about that a lot, and I keep coming back to the same conclusion. I've always wanted this. I was never going to get it, not on my own. You came along and showed me how."
She cracks a half-smile. "I don't know how to feel about that."
I say, "Maybe you shouldn't know how to feel. But please, just listen to me when I tell you that you did something good for me. I love my life the way it is now. I love the way I feel. I love myself."
It's a pregnant pause.
Now it's my turn to consider what I'm going to say next.
"I love you," I say.
She turns bright red.
I immediately add, "I don't care if you don't answer me back. I'm not even sure I care if you love me back. I'm fine with it, really. I have a pretty full life."
Quietly, she says, "It isn't that I... it's not that I don't have a response. But is it okay if I don't say anything right now?"
I nod.
Perhaps on an impulse, she reaches out and lightly touches one of the loops of the thin scarf that dangles between my bare breasts.
"Why?" she asks.
"Why what?"
"Why did you want me to see you like this?"
"This is who I am, to a lot of people. And it's who I am to myself, a lot of the time. I wanted you to see it."
Her hand is very close to my heart, and to other parts of me. I wish she would touch me.
I tell her, "I used to hate what I saw in the mirror. But now I'm feeling myself, and I guess I wanted you to see me that way."
"Are you sure it isn't just because you thought you'd get lucky?"
I laugh. "I'm pretty lucky in general."
She laughs, too. The old Alex is starting to come back into her reddened eyes.
Then she says, "Can I ask you something? Just as a hypothetical?"
"Sure."
"If we were to have sex right now, what would make me different from anyone else?"
I think carefully about what I'm going to say. And I'm trying not to wonder too hard just how hypothetical her question is.
"Everyone's different," I say. "There's something special about it with each person. I'm not going to lie and say I wouldn't feel that way about anyone else ever again, but nobody's like anyone else."
She says, "I suppose it goes without saying that, if we were to be in some kind of relationship--hypothetically--it wouldn't be exclusive."
"No," I say. "I couldn't."