Phoebe stirs to sounds drifting from the apartment next door. It's 2 am and this is life in the city where our stories and flavours mingle...and these are particularly spicy neighbours. Her keen senses detect sex in progress. Her hungry puss detects it, almost preternaturally.
She sighs and glances over in the dark where the form of her lover is snoring heavily beside her. He sleeps like a rock and doesn't hear anything. She rolls over, trying to tune out the sound. But she is jealous because her love-making has become predictable. He indicates, she agrees. She assumes the position, some kisses. He fondles enough to gain entry and grinds against her. She grants some encouraging moans and it's all over in about 10 minutes, sometimes less. He's more like the inert stone in the soup mix.
So what kind of flavour is she? Awake at 2 am seems like the perfect time for this metaphorical distraction but her stirred-awake sex demands that she map the choreography next door. Sex wins over metaphor.
Only sounds guide her to the interplay of lovers who may be separated from her by a space of inches. She's seen them often enough to paint a picture. They are at least in their 30s, both attractive and athletic. She likes the woman's smooth brown complexion, large brown eyes and thick mane of hair that never looks disheveled even after she's come in from jogging.
He is fairer skinned but also Latino with brown eyes. Phoebe likes the angular cut of his jaw, the way his hair curls and is becoming lightly salted with grey. There is something about his hips and the small of his back, oh, she remembers and feels herself blushing. His ass is goddamn work of art - round and high cheeked like a woman. The fullness of it gives accent to his fluid hips and makes his waist look small and shapely.
Phoebe is shocked to realize that she has been drawn to studying the movement of it unconsciously. She can now acknowledge following him in silence off the elevator, and watching behind his back, undressing him with her eyes to imagine the buttocks, to watch them clench as he moves. She has wanted to see him dancing. God, she thinks. I barely know his name and I could draw his ass from memory. She smiles sheepishly and figures, no harm done. I am appreciating a thing of beauty; it is like a work of art.
She gets curious then, instead of trying to ignore them she wonders what are they doing? As she hones her sense of hearing, there is a sudden series of thumps, and Phoebe tenses. What has happened? Did they fall off the bed? She imagines the tangle of bedsheets around their feet and on the floor. His concerned expression. Is she hurt? Then Phoebe hears the woman laugh, it is deep and in her throat, no -- she's not hurt. She's thrown her head back in laughter. Phoebe's own brow softens and she realizes she'd been holding her breath. She sighs, and automatically smooths her hands down her thighs. It's all right.