The truth is I never really liked him. He flattered me and that was enough. I like being flattered.
I had told a church friend a version of the truth. I told her what he and I had been up to -- but I described it as what he wanted us to do. Oh the look on her face. Oh the questions in her expression. He wants to do what to you? He wants to take you where? She said I had to leave him, that I couldn't change him, that I shouldn't do any of those things. What my friend didn't understand was that those things are enjoyable. Those guilty dirty things that trouble my mind are troubling because they are so intensely pleasurable.
I love the pleasure. And that's why I agree to go with him to his work function. His employer, the company he works for, they are celebrating their twenty-fifth anniversary. So all the shareholders, all the workers, all the bosses, and the big customers -- plus their plus ones are at the big venue by the river. On the top storey of three. It's the fanciest dinner he has ever been to. It's difficult to forget that he doesn't come from money. It's difficult for him to get over that I do.
There's dancing. There's a decent meal with creditable table service. And there's alcohol. I have a glass of wine. It's enough for me to start flirting with his workmates. At least I wait until late in the night when all the respectables have gone home. My friend's father is one of the respectables. I smile politely as he leaves. I feign a yawn for his benefit -- and a look at the time, again for his benefit. Once he leaves I rearrange myself so as to show more cleavage. With an adjust here and there my dress becomes shamelessly low cut.
My boyfriend doesn't like to dance. So I dance with his workmates. He doesn't seem to care. And because he doesn't care I make him want to care by flirting. By leaning forward as I dance. By putting my cleavage under the nose of my dance partners. In the end it's 1.30 a.m. and his workmates have more shame than me. They send me back to him. I'm disappointed because I wanted to see how far I would go. Instead, all I have done is dance with a few guys.
The music stops. The lights come on and hurt my eyes. We leave, there are taxis arranged so we wait our turn. I need to find a restroom. I tell him that.
He reaches out and taps my handbag, he says "put you panties and bra in here."
I say "what?"
I realise he doesn't mean right now, in the queue. But even so, I tell him "no."
The nearest restroom is for the disabled, so it's huge. I lock the door behind me, face the mirror and watch myself in disbelief as I slide my panties off. They are wet as I stuff them into my handbag. I hike my dress up. I am surprised that my cunt lips are so obvious. That my clit is so tender as I brush against it with my hand. I drop the hem of my dress. It takes me an age to unbutton my dress. It buttons down the front from the now plunging neckline to the too high hem. I could have slid my bra out an armhole -- but I drag this out. I check in the mirror that it's me who's dress is hanging agape off one shoulder. I see my bra, I feel my hands to the clasp and shrug it off. My breasts show in the mirror. It is me but it's not me. And it's been like that since I have been with him. I nearly forget to pee. It's an afterthought.
I return wearing three pieces of clothing: my black dress and a shoe on each foot. I leave the top three buttons on my dress undone. I want his workmates to look over at me and see what they have missed. I imagine myself leaning forward like when I was dancing, but with my dress gaping even more. I want them to see how hard my nipples are. I want them to imagine how tender my clit is. But they are gone. Only he is left, a taxi waits for us. We climb in and my dress rides up. If the taxi driver looks he will see my cunt.
We drive out through the industrial part of town and past the club from two weeks before. He lives in a middle class suburb and it's deathly quiet. He has the taxi driver stop a block short of his house. He pays. We stand on the side walk as the taxi departs.
"Why here?" I ask.
He says for me to undo some more buttons.
I say, "no," but hand him my handbag and do it anyway.
We walk the counter-clockwise way instead of the quick way. Past slumbering houses. There's the distant sound of trucks on the far highway, our footfall, and crickets -- but that's it. He stops me. He says more buttons. I do as he says. I unbutton down to my navel. The dress begins to slide from my shoulders. I imagine that I'm with his work colleagues instead of him.
"More buttons?" I ask.
"All of them," he says.
I undo them to the last one. I hesitate with it, not because I don't want to be naked on the street, but because I don't want my dress to fall to the ground. He misunderstands my reluctance and tells me to hurry up. I do hurry. I hand him my dress. He bundles it under his arm then thinks better of it and straightens it out and wears it around his neck as a scarf.
He places my handbag on the ground and steps towards me, takes my head in his hands and kisses me roughly. I feel his tongue in my mouth. I tell him I hate him then I kiss him back. My tongue is in his mouth. He breaks away from my kiss and walks off. He tells me I can follow him or not. He has my dress. He has my handbag. I have my shoes. I follow him.
He stops at the corner of his street, beneath the street sign. The street light is out but even so, if anyone were to wake in one of these houses and peer out their window they would see a naked me. I catch up to him. He pulls me to him and has me stand side on in front of him. He cups my mound in the palm of his hand. His fingers pry my cunt lips apart. I am used to it now. I am used to the word cunt. I think it without thinking. A finger enters me. I sigh. I bite my lip. I press myself towards his hand. I want his mouth on my breasts. I don't have the ability to cup my own breasts. My hands are as useless as my resolve. My nipples scream for attention.
His other hand finds my bum. I jump a little in surprise. In doing so I drive his finger deeper into my cunt. A fingertip finds my bum hole and squeezes me forward on to his other hand -- his cunt hand. He knows I hate bum play. He knows I love it, too. I lose all sense of standing on my own feet. Another finger joins the first in my cunt. His palm is hard against my clit. I move from side to side. As I do a finger enters my bum hole. It enters me and takes a tour around my insides. I feel the fingers in my cunt against the finger in my arse through the wall of flesh that separates me -- that has me twisting, squirming, writhing. I lean into him. I am helpless. I try to kiss him. He doesn't stop me, but makes no effort to meet my kisses.
"Filth," he says.
He means that I am filthy. A filthy dirty bitch. He means in one word what I have become. I am a piece of sex hanging from his fingers, naked on the street. I think all of that until his fingers find my G-spot. He finds it and his fingers work hard. I'm building towards something new. I no longer care that I am naked on some street. I'm about to come when he pulls his fingers from my cunt. He wipes his hand across my tits and then my face. I suck at his fingers. My cunt throbs in the night. My breasts swell. His other hand remains at my backside, his finger still in my arse.
"Shall we?" he says.