For a change of pace, Iâm sitting on the couch in Wallyâs living room. Usually, itâs Rowdy Hall or the Maidstone Arms or some other bar in East Hampton. Iâm wearing the black dress with the bare back, high hem to show my best feature: long, pale, shapely legs. Reveals as much dĂ©colletage as Iâve got. The junior "Vogue" shape is less the point that my gamin face, with lofty cheekbones, dark eyes, nice nose, full lips. As a teen, I made spending money modeling for mags.
My signature is smoldering brown eyes and jet-black pixie-cut hair.
I canât figure out Wallyâs lust. Iâm available most weekends, but not to put out. Drink expensive chardonnay, talk dirty, and look cool on a stool.
Wally is early 50âs, divorced, lawyer, house south of the highway but not on the beach, strong-type handsome, fit and trim because he craves action, generous. Well, generous because what he spends is lunch money, for him, even when he gives me a $7,500 bracelet. (I'm thinking of once, at Christmas. Just for him, I gave a spontaneous one-woman performance of âThe Trojan Women,â which ended with 'soldiers' shoving me to my knees, hands tied behind me, bare tits out, face pushed down onto Wally's cock).
He wants to fuck me, marry me, anything me, but I canât see life as his wife. It challenges him. I try to go easy on the cock teasing. He enjoys telling me about his latest sex, which is constant, and, I would say, imaginative. And kinky.
Okay, on the couch, my chardonnay and his Jack, close but not touching. What is Wallyâs latest?
âYou know those Jehovahâs Witnesses women who go door to door?â
âYeah, you feel sorry for them, slogging door to door in the freezing cold, but if you invite them inâŠâ
âI invited them. Two black women carrying brochures and copies of Awake.â
Dear God, donât tell meâŠ
As though he heard my thought: âNo, they loved being asked in. I sat right here beside one. The other one was over there. I gave them coffee and cookies.â
I glanced from under my lashes.
âSo, yeah, we talked. The cute oneâŠâ
âOh.â
âYeah, mid-forties, gleaming ebony skin. Dark eyes sparkling, so alive. And those lips! Wearing knockout red lipstick with gloss. With her coat off..."
"Oh, you got comfortableâŠâ
âRight away! The other was the same age, lighter, fuller face, round. Sweetest smile, not quite as cute..."
I nodded.
âLaughing, so pleasant! What is it about these women? Do you think it has to do with faith?â
âWhat did they talk about?â
âMostly, a new app on her cellphone. Canât recall the URL, now. But everything about the "Bible," âscience,â âanswering questions,â you name it. You know what?â
I sipped chardonnay and raised my eyebrows.
âThe "Bible" is on there in something like 150 languages. She was showing meâŠâ
I knew he would get to the story.
âEllen, you know Iâm not religious, right? I respect religion, but I canât believe.â
âDid they argue with you?â
âThey tried the argument from design. You can imagine how âhotâ that pitch is: Godâs creation, everything fits, perfect. And now, we are screwing it up with carbon emission, global warming. I bet theyâre getting mileage out of that!â
âYou hit on her?â
Wally shrugged. âWell, yeah, I did.â
I said, with gravity, I hope: âWally, I truly cannot imagine what that was like.â
âYou know, Ellen, I just leaned toward her, smiled, and said: âI think the most beautiful thing in all creation is the body of a woman.â
âYou need more Jack?â
I had stood up. I couldnât sit still. I try not to be a prude. And I like Wally. What was this? Something inexpressibly desperate. Like stealing from the churchâs poor box at Christmas.
âSure, Iâll take some.â Wally ran his eyes up and down me and grinned.
I came back with Jack. I asked: âDid they both?â
âGiggled like mad. The one I was sitting beside, Grace, is a nurse. She does this Jehovahâs Witnesses gig like twice a month. I found outâŠâ
He shrugged. âSo, Iâm thinking⊠nurse? She isnât from a nunnery. Sheâs seen it all. She knows about the body. Right?â
I nodded just perceptibly.
âI said to her: âYou know what I want to ask God?â And she shook her head, but she smiled. Those red-gloss lips!â
I nodded.
âI rested my hand on her shoulder, leaned close, and said: âI want God to send me a beautiful, generous lady, so I can love, again. Is that wrong?â
âThey giggled?â
âMostly the other one. The one I was touching just kind of watched me, frowning⊠Canât blame her, right?â
I couldnât stand the suspense, so to speak. âSo, how did this start?â
âI said, âI just want to kiss your breasts. That's all.â The other one, on the chair across the coffee table, went crazy with giggling. So, I figured, what the hell. I looked at her, shaking my head kind of sadly, and I said, âYou would be so beautiful.â
âAnd guess what?â
âDear God,â I murmured.
âWhat?â
âGo on.â
Wally shrugged. âShe did it. Gaze never left mine. She slowly peeled down the top of her black dress. Then, she reached around back to unhook this massive red bra. Smiling. A big, cocoa-brown, pumpkin-shaped, cute face. And suddenly, Iâm staring at these whopper wineskins, pendulous, but bursting fullâdark smooth nipples four inches across.
"I can't quite believe it. I'm seeing them. Then, I realize, wow, she's waiting for me to react. Because her hands cup them, heft them, give them a shake, and there's a kind of shy questioning smile on her face. Somehow, these burnt sienna aureolas are crinkling into rockets. 'I have never seen anything so beautiful!' I try to speak reverently."
Well, another one for Wally. Not in 1,000 years would I admit this escapade would result in anything but both women fleeing, maybe calling the cops⊠Got to hand it to Wally. A pioneer.
âThe other one?â
âOh, she did, too. Maybe because of how I looked at her friend. My face was shining with delight. I mean I wasnât lunging⊠Ellen, the other one was a black Venus. When she whipped off her bra with a kind of grand flourish⊠Those breasts! Shining ebony, as solid as sculpture, beautifully separated on her chest, swooping up to a point in jet-black nipples.â