March 2024 - Nellskitchen, all rights reserved. This story or any portion thereof may not be reproduced without the writer's permission. All characters appearing in "SNACKERS" are over eighteen---
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STAVE 1 - The Party
Sheena first spied the mouthwatering Vince Carino at Zach's birthday bash, a party she had been reluctant to attend. "You've turned into a boring lump, Sheena," the possessive Marion chided. "Parties are fun! Zach invited some bikers. Who knows? Rival gangs might trash the place. There could be a big fight."
Sheena was frank with her. "I hate those things," she insisted. "Noise, smoke, grab-ass biker thugs, I don't call that fun."
To please Marion, but mostly to shut her up, Sheena wriggled into the tightest black leather leggings imaginable and accepted that noise, smoke, and biker thugs might actually be fun.
The party's racket was already well advanced when they arrived. Drunken carousers spilled out of the brownstone onto Flatbush Avenue, and moments later, the girls pushed and shoved their way up steps deliberately narrowed by rowdy, catcalling gang members.
"Hey, baby doll," the tallest of them idly drawled. "Nice ass. Come sit right here?" He patted his knee, the one not already occupied by that EXXPLICIT NEWS bitch, Katherine Tinker, who, as usual, looked down her nose at Sheena. "There ain't no empty seats inside, beautiful," the biker nagged.
Though cute, Sheena steeled herself and answered abruptly, saying, "Get lost!"
Sleeping Harleys lined the street; four NYPD cruisers stood sentry at either end of the block. With burly cops eyeballing the party's raucous overflow, Sheena wondered if the place might be targeted for a raid.
"Oh, great! The cops are here!" She grumbled. "You wait, Marion, they'll bust this fucking place! I don't need this shit! I only just started my job at the library. They'll fire me if I get arrested."
Once inside and facing a sea of mostly unfamiliar faces, the girls navigated a cloud of marijuana smoke laced with heavy metal music. Straight away, Marion linked up with her inconsiderate boyfriend, Bishu Dey. As usual, Bishu snubbed Sheena. Grinning at Marion, he handed her a half-eaten bag of buttered popcorn. After a nod and a wink, the on-again-off-again couple melted into the reeking potpourri. Alone, Sheena, moving further on, ranged past indistinct faces in search of whomever.
A brief moment later, she spotted 'whomever.' It was only a passing glimpse, but the man's chiseled features and manicured goatee, framed by longish, dark, wavy hair, boosted Sheena's attraction. She spotted an 'outlaw' patch on the man's tattered denim vest. He was definitely a Pagan biker; it made him noticeably out of place at a party brimming with belligerent 69ers. Despite it, he moved about comfortably, almost as if he belonged. For a closer look, Sheena moved in, but, as happens in crowds, he evaporated when she blinked.
Through a frantic instant, Sheena tore at the place, and her darting eyes eventually recaptured the man. He stood with a woman who attended to him with perfectly timed nods and winks. She was the far-too-bedazzling Ethiopian, Maharene Simoon.
A tall, exquisite, slender girl, she came from a place that mass-produced hatefully tall, exquisite, mortifyingly slender girls. Officially, Maharene was in New York as an embassy staff secretary. Sheena knew the truth. Maharene was not what she claimed. For extra cash, she had taken to giving blowjobs for a posh Midtown escort service. Sheena was too late. Maharene was hitting on the biker.
Maharene's big black eyes were locked to his, and just then, with a suggestive smile, the biker leaned to the African. Cupping a hand over her ear and wandering her ample breasts with the other, he said something unseemly.
Frowning and shaking her head, Maharene angrily pulled away. Whatever he was after, the African's negative response was emphatic. Not having gotten what he wanted, and despite her imposing presence, the biker turned away, leaving the forlorn hooker probing the room for fresher game.
Assuming he sought a girl who would say 'yes,' Sheena stepped into the breach of what she knew could not be more than a fleeting sexual vacuum. As she approached, however, a gay couple intruded by sashaying between them. Maddeningly, at just the wrong twinkling, the pair stopped to share a kiss, and to keep from losing sight of the biker a second time, Sheena stood on tiptoe. When the gay kiss ended, the biker vanished again.
Next, Sheena approached Maharene, who greeted her in the friendly but slightly detached way Ethiopian girls do. "Selam New, Sheena," she said brightly. "I only just saw Marion with...with Bishu, that terrible creature of hers," she caustically said. "You are here with her tonight?"
Sheena cherished Maharene's sexy, delicate way of speaking English. Her deep voice was erotic yet proper. Straight off and abruptly exhausting her glossary of Amharic words, Sheena replied, "Selam New, Maharene."
"How nice to see you this day," Maharene said, cordially hugging her. "Oooo...so pretty," she added, her delicate fingers fussing with Sheena's knit Sherpa scarf. "Yes, so very pretty. Is this way-too-loud party to your liking?"
In a measured tone and nervously looking about, Sheena lukewarmly conceded, "It's all right, I guess." Changing the subject, she asked, "Maharene, about that big guy who just grabbed your boobs; where'd he go?"
Maharene's demeanor straightaway changed from warmth to glowering, and she motioned over her shoulder to the hallway beyond. Sheena looked but did not see him.
"Huh! Don't waste your time!" Maharene lectured snootily. "He is...um...how do you Americans call it? A douche! Guess what he said to me? HE SAID HE WANTS TO FUCK ME IN THE ASS! Imagine? I only just met him! Nevertheless, he wants to fuck me in the ass!" She contemptuously crossed her arms and, then, smiling, added, "So, hey, I see you are here with the Snack Queen."
"With the...um...what kind of Queen?" Sheena asked, clueless.
"Ooooooolala! So, you are unaware?"
Maharene, leaning suggestively, whispered a secret into the interested girl's ear. "Seriously?" Sheena asked, incredulous. "Are you sure about this?" Maharene's eyes widened, and she nodded insistently.
"You did not know?" Maharene asked. "It is such a very funny thing, Sheena. Bishu, Marion's boyfriend, that pig...he revealed this to me...this secret. He is a bad boy to tell me what he makes his Snack Queen eat! But he tells great secrets to me, and I very much like that part!"
"I hate Bishu," Sheena agreed. "But I'm glad you told me the secret, Maharene." Redirecting the subject, she asked, "You wouldn't have an extra Obi-Wan Kenobi, would you?" Hastily searching her congested purse, Maharene retrieved one, which she dangled in front of Sheena like a just-out-of-reach door prize.
"It is yours, Sheena. But first, you must tell me something," the bargaining Ethiopian insisted. "Only then," she added, waving the little plastic stick, "only then will I give you this...this, how do Americans call it; this, crotch swab." Maharene beamed expectantly. "So, what about it, Sheena? Did Bishu...you know...does the terrible man make you do the popcorn thing? Does he make you do it like he makes Marion do it?"
Sheena, reminded of Maharene's taste for gossip, forcefully denied it. "No way would I ever do that. But thanks for the tampon."
Whisking the slender tube from the Ethiopian's supple fingers, Sheena glanced around at the dozen witnesses to the little exchange. "Gee," she sarcastically shouted to the gawking multitude, "maybe you all can follow me into the bathroom to watch me change!"
Obsessed with locating the Pagan, Sheena stepped away from the dazzling African and slinked into the narrow hallway. Standing alone, her handsome prey offered the searching woman a hook-up kind of smile.
STAVE 2 -- The following morning.
"Sheena!" she urged. "Wake up! It's morning!" She tugged hard at her girlfriend's arm. In denial and despite the urgency in Marion's voice, Sheena stayed put.