"I can't picture you guys doing it," said Scully.
She had said this before, dozens of times. But this was the last time she would say it.
"You can't picture us guys doing what?" I asked.
"You know, Henry, doing it."
"Well, actually, we don't do it anymore. I cream her at chess so bad she won't play me."
"It's true," said Myra, who saw where I was going. "He's so much better at chess that it's not fun."
"Fuck you both. I meant fucking, not chess. You both fucking know that, you fuckers." Scully cursed a lot, which made her use of the term "doing it" amusing.
"Ohh, you mean fucking. She was talking about fucking, honey."
"Well, that is different from chess. It's moister, for one thing."
"They both can involve creaming -- and mating."
"Fuck you both."
The three of us were alone in Scully's apartment smoking pot in the afternoon. It wasn't a big place, but she kept it clean and organized. Scully sat in her wingback chair rolling a joint on the little glass-topped table while Myra and I sat on the love seat, waiting.
Curly haired Scully lit up the joint, huffed, and passed it to Myra.
"I could draw you a picture. That might help." Scully, holding her breath, looked at me puzzled. Myra wasn't puzzled -- we'd discussed doing this. She took a hit and passed me the joint.
"Of us 'doing it,' copulating," I said. My turn to toke.
"Fuck you, Henry. You're a fuck," she said as I passed her the joint.
"It might require several drawings. We fuck in many different ways," said Myra, taking the joint.
Scully laughed and coughed . "Fuck you, too. You're also a fuck."
"She's also a fucker," I said, taking the joint.
"I remember," Scully said, waiting for her turn.
"She doesn't seem to want your drawings," said Myra, sounding disappointed. "Maybe you could do them for me."
I nodded vigorously and exhaled. "I can see why she's having trouble visualizing us. We do contrast quite a bit. You're soft and round, I'm hard and angular."
"I'm short and plump, you're tall and thin." She inhaled deeply.
"You're a warm mocha-latte color, I'm the color of a fish belly."
"You're a male asshole and she's a female asshole." The joint was now quite short and I had trouble passing it to Scully.
"Maybe that's her problem," I said to Myra. "Maybe she has trouble visualizing a penis."
"As if. This is the East Village -- there are penises sticking out all over the fucking place," said Scully, rolling another joint.
"She's right, Henry. Especially at night."