Sick thoughts. They were sick, sick thoughts. Yet no matter how much he tried to get them out of his head, they came back β whispered to him, tapped on his shoulder like the first wisps of smoke from a building on fire.
Everyday, as he walked into his friendly San Francisco office he couldn't help but notice the curvature of her body. The perfectly packed pout of her round girlish ass. The elegant slope of her forearm to finger. The rosy as red apple sheen to her hormonal skin. And most of all her bump β just three months and growing in her warm, voluptuous oven.
This would be Greta's second child β and he knew that the last thing on her mind was another boy from the office. She had her man. The father of her child and children to be. The one that planted the seed deep inside of her and anxiously awaited it to blossom from her womb.
But still, if she had any kind of sexual radar on in her expectant body she must know. She must sense his body grow weak every time she cozied up within several inches of him. She must have felt the air sucked into his lungs β or a slight change in body temperature whenever he had to glide by her and her ass as she bent over to reload a printer, or unshelve a useful volume for company research.
She was older than him β perhaps even a decade. Her powers of detection must have been strong enough to know.
He was a mess and he was in lust with this girl. And she was pregnant.
And that was life. And it was beautiful.
ROBERT AND KATRINA
Robert lived with his girlfriend outside the city in an urban neighborhood.
At 27 he had developed a fairly disciplined but fulfilling life. His girlfriend Katrina was two years younger than him, and she had brought the cat, and the plants, and the love into his life.
She was shorter than him too, and had a fondness for old jazz records, childlike poetry, kids, and riding her bicycle.
She was kind of a blessing for the lonesome dreamer Robert β who was more of a writer/poet/musician type β although what he really didn't mind doing was getting his hands on a box of pastels and drawing. Big colorful messes of art β some of which he deemed 'worthy' and others he kind of crumpled up or disregarded. On a Sunday before work, Robert would sit in the window of the couple's loft, look out into the courtyard, and just let his hands talk.
This particular Sunday he felt compelled to draw in peaches and reds. He picked up and tried each pastel before holding it at the top of the paper and then arcing his wrist and pulling the line down, until it resembled something like a half moon. It really felt good to just let go, and he kept picking Earthy colors and making the arches.
It was springtime and outside he could see the leaves starting to bud and the flowers starting to turn their many colors. The pollen was in the air and he was a bit drunk on the whole moment.
As he picked up a sea blue he got this image in his head of that arch he kept drawing. Except it wasn't blue but burning red. He could almost touch it in his subconscious, but was afraid to β like he might get an electric shock or something. It was full, and light red, and smooth β just like Greta's belly at work. 'Oh,'he thought, semi-deleriously yet enraptured. 'What an image.'
To honor her arch he delicately rubbed in the rest of the image. And then sat back and looked at his art β to see if it did her and her arch any justice.
He breathed heavily. An ocean of a breath. And just then he felt a body get close to his.
'Hi honey' said Katrina. 'I brought you something to drink.'
She handed him a lemonade. 'Nice moon, Robert,' she said in a half-mocking, half-appreciative way.
'Thanks' Robert said dreamily. 'I really like this moon.' Katrina started to run her hands through his hair, and Robert suddenly felt a wash of warmth spread across his inner thighs.
'Mmm, you love me, don't you?' he said to Katrina, extending a hand to ample bosom in a light spring dress.
'Not so fast,' she said. 'You have to drink my lemonade.'
'Very well then,' Robert said, removing his hand.
He sipped the lemonade, and they discussed their plans for the week. Katrina had arranged for them to go see a comedy show that her friend was appearing in North Beach. It was actually in the basement of an older church called St. Agnes.
As he put down his finished glass Robert looked out the window at the trees.
'What's wrong?'Katrina asked her preoccupied mate.
She ran her hand over his head and kissed his brow. Her sweet air made him awake once again and he began kissing her wet, feminine lips. She removed her eyeglasses and pushed herself into the moment. He felt her young body close in on his frame and he let one hand fall to her buttocks as he groped her bosom and kissed her deeply.
The two bodies hovered over to the couch, and he felt all the muscles in the insides of his thighs tighten as he began to thrust his body on top of hers. She whimpered slightly and kissed him back, then let her soft white hands undue the top of his trousers as he hiked up her skirt and laid his palm on her magnificently hot and wet vulva, which was now crying through her panties for attention.
Pulling the white cloth aside he let two of his fingers slide into her abyss, nudging each one in up to the knuckle, and then daring to let a third hang down to tease his girlfriend's little sensitive asshole.
She really liked it when he did that β and he began to push more aggressively against her parts as she rocked her soft comforting body against his on the couch.
'Robert' she moaned. 'I love you.'