OMG!! I'd fucked a stranger!!!
I woke up the next morning with a heavy heart. I'd failed myself again. I'd failed my religion. I'd failed my fiancΓ©. I'd betrayed everything I loved. My only solace lay in the fact that Devon hadn't cum in me. But it wasn't due to any lack of effort on my part. I'd tried my best to work semen from his nuts. When he finally pulled out and went over to Jaleesa, I'd been so....I dunno how to describe it. Jealous? Empty? Unfulfilled? Traumatized?
I didn't even know this guy!!
I didn't know most of the women in the room, either. And the three women I did know weren't going to say anything. Hell, they'd smothered this guy in pussy, too. It's not like they could go back to work, point to me and say: "She's a SLUT!!" All of us were covered in the tainted glory of that particular moniker.
My main worry was that someone in that club might come across me and my corner Watchtower stand. How could I preach the Gospel under the stain of the very public depravity I'd exhibited at Jaleesa's bachelorette party? I needed to pray.
Of course, Donnie would never, COULD never find out about this episode. He and I were celibate in anticipation of marriage. Donnie followed a very strict version of Watchtower dogma. We never kissed. He rarely touched me. When he did, even accidentally, huge sparks raged in us both, I'm sure. We couldn't wait to get it on.
I calmed greatly after attending Jaleesa's bachelorette party. Though I tried to hide it, Donnie noticed. I played it off by saying I was a little under the weather. This was a lie. I was basking in the afterglow of three marvelous nuts I'd snatched from Devon's smokin' penis. It was salve for an open wound. Try as I might, I kept replaying that night in my mind. It was all I could do to keep from masturbating in the shower. My prayers were failing. More and more the idea of being the star of my own bachelorette party framed my thoughts.
I started paying close attention to the blowback from Jaleesa's party. Surprisingly, there was none. Not a whisper. This amazed me. When I was in high school every little thing my girlfriends did became public knowledge. If one of them was caught kissing a boy under the bleachers the story blew up into some flailing decadence. If she was caught kissing a girl it was worse. If two girls got into a fight and a titty popped out, by the time the story made its rounds both girls were seen fighting naked in a mud pit. This double standard between men and women is why women tend to be more circumspect in their love lives.
At work, Felicia, Destiny and Monique behaved as if nothing had happened. There was neither a whisper nor a hint of gossip about Jaleesa's bachelorette party. Conversely, my experience there was the only thing on my mind.
I came to find out that the bachelorette party is the only time a woman can be publicly sexual without recriminations. No one calls her a "slut" or a "whore". Each of the women in attendance can shake loose of her moral hindrances and behave according to her innate sexual imperatives. I mean, men attend these things all the time and no one calls them "sluts". Slut shaming is a peculiar method of branding women who don't abide by the unwritten rules in American culture. The bachelorette party is this one golden exception to these rules.
I began to see this exception as a valuable diadem. Even though I'd prayed over my sinful participation at Jaleesa's party, I thought that maybe I ought to reconsider my refusal to attend my own bachelorette party. One only gets this one chance to get one's freak on and get away with it.
Still, I spent the next few weeks looking over my shoulder. As a minister of the Gospel, I had wide exposure to many different varieties of people. My friends at work were cool, you know, but you never knew whom you'd run into.
So I'm out on the corner one day, proselytizing, hoping that my smile would snare a likely convert for the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. This woman walks by. She's an obvious dyke. She had the face of someone I'd seen before but couldn't place. She sees me staring at her and she slowed to return my stare!! Apparently, she knew my face, too!! It suddenly occurred to me--she's the bartender at the club!! She'd watched that whole schpiel with Devon the Dancer and me!! I almost died of shame!!
But I played it off nicely. I kept smiling. The woman picked up her pace; she walked past without saying anything. It's a good thing, too. In a room full of women it's tough to remember an individual face. I bet if I'd had my legs cocked open she would have recognized my vagina. Can you imagine my embarrassment if she'd come up and asked: "Didn't I see you down at Nastytown the other week?"
This, however, did not stop my curiosity at attending another such event. I kept envisioning me making the mistake of going down on Brother Samuelson on our wedding night and having him ask: "What are you doing?"
What man turns down a blowjob? What man doesn't know the moves a woman makes as prelude to a blowjob? That would be any and all of the JW men I knew.
It occurred to me that Devon's cock might have been the last cock that ever passed my lips. It also occurred to me that I'd never have anal sex again. It also occurred that my pussy would go unlicked from now until the end of time.
I found none of these outcomes appealing. Maybe if I got just one more freak on I wouldn't be wondering about it forever. I pondered over this for two weeks, going back and forth over my moral options, then I called Felicia and told her that I would be OK with her plans for my bachelorette party, so long as the plans didn't include anyone from my congregation, nor any JW's from the Detroit metro area, and the invitations would be only verbally given. There should be nothing incriminating in writing, no ornate cards detailing the time and place of the event. Felicia happily agreed.
Plans for my bachelorette party proceeded apace. I had to pretend nothing was in the works, but I saw and approved each and every detail. Felicia was my firewall. If anything leaked, she agreed to take the blame. Nothing, and I mean absolutely NOTHING, came past her. I demanded total plausible deniability.
A few days before the party an issue came up. The Closer's name changed. Felicia told me that the Closer didn't want his name known. I vetoed this caveat. I insisted that his name be revealed for the background check. There were no details I was willing to let slip. I needed to see his most recent health check, too.