Fuck it, I'm videotaping it.
Something I should've thought of before I coated my hands in custard, but impulse knows no such thing as good timing. Nor was it good timing that the urge overtook me while my partner, lovely as they are, teaches online lessons to bored college students in the adjacent room.
Being quiet was never my forte.
Tripod set, I can't believe I'm actually doing this. If my partner finds out what I've done--what I'm doing--to their favorite pastry from down the street, they might actually call off all seven years of our relationship. Being an emotional mess is one thing, but a literal mess is, well... that's not everyone's cup of tea.
Sometimes acceptance and understanding don't go hand in hand.
You see, I'd just gone through a breakup. It's a long story. Not with my partner, but with another partner. Sort of. Like I said, it's a long story, and I need to cope somehow.
I'd shared my deepest, darkest sexual desires. My penchant for humiliation, the names I longed to be called (none of them very nice), the power play, everything but my messier acclimations.
And when it ended, so did my sex drive.
My cohabiting partner, the one I love very much, doesn't share those desires. Vanilla like the custard I'm smearing over my face and tits, the cold smoothness reawakening nerves that had been dormant during a frenzy of ice cream binges and zombie movie marathons. Anything to numb the barren wasteland of my mind.