In the Heat of the Night...
The Devil on Your Shoulder
:
Oh Anastasia, how the garden of your victory grows ever more verdant...you, my grand success, the one who actually listened. Not all of us are so lucky as to be regarded as more than the base mumblings of a person's Id.
You
:
I'm sorry that I ignored you for so long...even more sorry to myself. What if I'd listened to you earlier? Would I have avoided all those bad things that happened to me?
The Devil on Your Shoulder
:
You did listen to me, only back then it wasn't about slaking your thirsts, you know it was about survival on those humid streets.
You
:
How do you figure?
The Devil on Your Shoulder
:
Think back to when you lived with your mom, what her singular gripe was about you. And not just that miserable woman, but her slimy priest. Your unimaginative teachers.
You
:
That I never listened; it's not that I didn't listen, I did.
The Devil on Your Shoulder
:
And that's why you didn't obey. You said it yourself, the most miserable among us offer the most advice. The unhappiest souls extol the virtue of their lives. You remember what they called those who didn't live like them.
Whore. Ingrate.
You
:
...and here we are now.
The night's progression had been dreamlike, but far too lucid to be a dirty phantasm of your lust-soaked mind. Such dalliances were once relegated to the deep darkness of your secret thoughts, entertained only by the collection of toys you kept in your nightstand. Once you cried out to imagined lovers who'd never grace your bed, but now those desires were defined and had names. Trying to bring two men you were fucking - sometimes both in the same day - into comity was a gamble, but it was a three-person dance you'd painstakingly choreographed.
After the initial shows of aggression and possessiveness (which admittedly had flattered you immensely) had subsided, once wine had darkened glasses in the low-lit cool of Raulfo's, they seemed naturally predisposed to friendship. They sometimes seemed more interested in whatever silly (and tempting) live-service shooter they played, though their attention always circled back around to the auric outline of your breasts, or the smooth tautness of your thighs.
Better, of course, was when the lighting dimmed, steam rose from vents in the floor shaped like the mouths of Mayan deities, and they both invited you to join them on the dance floor. For all their outward differences - Aram, hard-edged and ungovernable as Sparticus'
sica
; Tiberius, smooth and debonair as Preston Burke's scalpel - they collaborated for like sections of an orchestra. Both of them really knew how to dance, and especially how to dance with you between them. Their hands running without shame over your tight, strong figure, the grind of their hips against your pelvis, your ass, and of course the heat of their breath and the hardness of their teeth against your neck...it all drove you
wild
.
Your body practically
howled
to take them back to your place, strip off your clothes, and let them ravage you but...now you were an elegant creature, you'd left your earlier crassness in a tin-roofed shack. You, Anastasia, weren't just some drunk college student eager to have a train pulled on her.
That's why you all ended up taking a Bolt back to your well-appointed, fastidiously cleaned (for this occasion) flat.
You find yourself seated between their masculine heat on an incredibly high quality couch you'd liberated from a Salvation Army store for under $50. Under the cerulean lighting you'd installed all on your own you sip
Armand de Brignac
from a fluted glass. The unspoken inevitability flickers between the three of you, charged and tantalizing as an oncoming storm, but the reins of control rest in your palm.
The flatscreen, 74" Samsung pinned to your wall communicates your intent with a characteristic union of subtlety and a blatant pronouncement; Berolucci's
Dreamers
had been one of your favorites since you were a university freshman. The forbidden, triangular romance between Matthew, ThΓ©o and Isabelle was the subject of more than one fantasy on your part; now, here it was, coming true.
Throughout the movie you find yourself fighting the carnal temptation of their physiques, both so different yet equally delectable, on either side. For the most part you remain civil but are unable to resist the occasional taste...your fingers, dragging up the Armani-smoothness of Thaddeus' leg, idly reaching out to squeeze the rock-hardness of Aram's shoulder. They do their own share of light groping, but their control is impressive as they eschew your firm bust and steamy-hot sex to trail hands along the inside of your thighs, over the flatness of your trim belly...somehow that excites you all the more.
Your dainty, hard nipples ache for their lips, your clitoris throbs against the silk of your panties...you're so soaking wet they could probably take turns entering you without foreplay, and lurid imagery wraps like a vine around your mind.
It is during the bathtub scene in the movie that you take the chance - all three of them, relaxing together in the sudsy water...suspiciously not partaking of each other's flesh, though you had a different artistic vision in mind. You pause the film, smiling your Harlequin's smile, and run your palms along the bar-stiff hardness pushing for freedom beneath their clothes; the curve of their shafts, the warm solidity of their crowns...they're ready for you.
"Gentlemen, shall we take a bath?" you suggest as casual as calico, pulling away from their touch (reluctantly) and trailing backwards toward your bathroom, slowly unbuttoning the gold of your blouse.
In the warm, slippery embrace of the water you settle between them both as Jimi Hendrix purrs from a little egg-shaped speaker mounted above the tub. Your descent into debauchery is a feathery-light fall, replete with the low thrum of the music and the sweet pungency of a joint you pass between them. "Not what I imagined myself doing on a Saturday night," Aram admitted with a smoky drawl as you reclined backward in his arms, your legs settled over Tiberius' lap; his fingers were at work draining all sense of tension from your body as he massaged your calves, gently squeezed your heels.
"And what
did
you imagine yourself doing, my handsome one?" you query, an arm ringing around his neck to stroke your soapy fingers through his hair. His features are thrown into shadowed relief in the flickering, low light from wall-mounted lanterns with flickering lamp-flame bulbs.
"Well...probably the same thing Tiberius imagined he'd be doing," your man answers coyly, running his thumb under the swell of your bottom lip. You nip gently at it, cheeks flushing hot and pink.
"Which was...something like this," the IT technician leans forward and circles his tongue in a blazing, tingling trail around the dark anther of your nipple, and you are unable to suppress the low groan that escapes your lips unbidden against Aram's thumb. Your body becomes a semi-liquid thing, malleable yet taut as he brings his lips to yours. It's really happening, going perfectly.
The Devil on Your Shoulder