I hope you all are staying home, staying safe and enjoying sex stories during this time. This is for everyone stuck inside like me.
I typically do not start stories without knowing how it will end. I have no idea how this one ends, so I guess we're riding this roller coaster together. I hope you enjoy it.
-KK
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Day 0:
I was barely paying attention to the news as I was packing my bag, glass of chardonnay in my hands. The TV was on and they were talking about some illness in China that was spreading across Asia, Europe and we had a couple of cases in my home state of New York. But this was the vacation Peter and I planned for the last three months and nothing was getting in the way. Peter is a domestic pilot who flies out of JFK and his schedule is hectic, and I work for an advertisement firm in the city. We both work long hours. We both needed this.
As I thought this my phone rang and it's Pete. "Hey bae!" I say excitedly as I answer.
"Hey sweetness," he calls me. "I just wanted to check in and make sure you still want to go."
"McScuse me bitch? I am already out the door!" I joke.
He laughs. I can see his dark blue eyes crinkle up even though he was on the phone. "I'm just saying, it's getting really bad out there. The city has like 1000 cases already of this Coronavirus and it's spreading fast. The governor is thinking of declaring a state of emergency. They are already quarantining folks coming from Asia and European countries."
"Uh-huh but what does that have to do with us?"
"Nothing. I just wanted to make sure..."
"Please baby, please don't back out on me now!" I whine. It had been so hard to coordinate our schedules together. We both have such stressful jobs we need this quick getaway. "It's only for the weekend, we'll be back by Sunday so no need to worry."
"Ok, listen, if you're good then I'm good." Pete says.
"I'm goooood!" I sang.
"Ok, then it's fine. We're going." He lets a moment pass then asks, "Is Ant still coming too?"
Ugh. The one monkey wrench in our planned sex filled weekend. My best friend Anthony and his boyfriend just broke up and he is heartbroken over it. He has been on my couch for going on two weeks now. I could leave him here but I didn't really want to because he's so depressed. So in the last minute I asked him if he wanted to join us and he said yes.
But he said before I could say it, "I know there is a bedroom downstairs so I will stay there with ear plugs in while you and Pete do your business upstairs. I just don't want to be alone right now."
"Yes," I tell Pete. "Is that ok?" I ask him for the millionth time this week. And he answers the way he did for the millionth time, "Yes, Jordanne, it's fine. He needs you."
I smile. "You're the best boyfriend ever."
"Yea? Tell that to your mother who hates me." I could feel him roll his eyes through the phone.
"She doesn't hate you Peter. She's...just is weary around white people." Pete is the only white guy I have ever been serious about and my mother has given me grief about it since I brought him home six months ago. But I don't care, I love him. And I hope he plans to pop the question at some point so I can show my mama and everyone else that race and color doesn't matter, love does.
"Yeah ok." He disagrees.
I let this topic go. "So we're taking your car right?" We were going to take my Audi but since it's three of us now I think his Highlander is a better fit.
Pete says, "Yeah, I will come get you both in an hour."
"I'll be ready. Love you Pilot Pete."
"Love you River Jordanne."
I hang up, finish the glass and pack the last bit of stuff in my bag. We were only going for 4 days to the Catskills Mountains but it is going to be a world away from the hustle and bustle of the city and I can't wait.
I go out to the living room area and Anthony, my best friend since we were 11 years old, is standing at the window looking out onto the Queens Village street traffic. I walk up to him and put my arms around his waist and hold him from the back. He's so much taller than I am at 5'8; actually I think he and Pete are the same height at 6'1. He holds my hand around his waist but doesn't say anything. My best friend is grieving.
After a while I spoke first, "Are you all packed?"
"Yeah," he says. He looks over at his duffle bag and then back out the window.
I sigh. "Ant, I wish I could take the pain away from you. But I think being out of the city and in the fresh air will do you some good. I'm glad you agreed to come."
"Pete is still ok with it?" He asked for the millionth time.
And I answer the millionth time, "Yes, he's fine with it. Don't worry."
He nods. Then he turns around and gives me a hug, his lips kissing the center of my hair. "I don't know what I would do without you, Jordanne."
I smile and say, "You would be miserable. Just like I would be without you."
Pete picks us up on Wednesday night and we made it to the Catskills Getaway vacation rentals in about 2 hours. He talks about all the wild stories coming out of JFK from other pilots and flight attendants who are getting sick and quarantined because they been around the infected. "I'm so glad I only fly domestic flights. I can't imagine having to be quarantined from you."
Anthony sits in the back with his eyes closed and has his headphones on the whole time. His plan this weekend, I can tell, is to disappear so he won't be bothersome to us. But I am honestly ok with having Ant around. We used to live together until 2 years ago when I did something I shouldn't have, and we thought it would be best if I moved out. Then he got with Felix and we never talked about the Incident, we just resumed our friendship as normal. I was surprised when he showed up at my door two weeks ago but of course I let him in.
I told Pete that he's been sleeping on the couch but really we've been sharing the bed the whole time. Not that I couldn't have told him, he thinks Anthony is completely gay, but I know for a fact that he dabbles with women from time to time. As an elementary school principal, he keeps his sexuality private as to not scare the mommies and daddies of their little ones.
We get to the cabin and it's beautiful. A pretty two story A symmetrical log cabin in the middle of nowhere right outside a lake. It's perfect. We get inside and unload the groceries in kitchen area and pull out the supermarket rotisserie chicken and sides we picked up to warm up and eat for tonight. Even though we were only staying for the weekend, we got at least a weeks worth of junk food and even more alcohol. I planned a weekend of de-stressing and that's what we are going to do.
Ant was quiet at dinner. We tried to engage him but he only answered when he was spoken to directly by either myself of Pete. Then he told us, "You both can go upstairs. I'll clean up."
I was about to protest and offer a movie or something to watch but Pete took my hand and led me to our room. "Let him be." Pete says. "He needs to feel what he is feeling without you hovering and trying to make it better for him. Breakups suck. But he'll be ok." He rubs my shoulders as he talks.
"Yeah, you're right. I'll stop being a nagging nancy." I say.
"Good." He kisses my neck and says, "Ready for bed?"
I smile and say, "No. But I'm ready for you." I stand up from the bed and straddle him, which he was ready for.