Chapter 17
Formerly 41 of The Gathering
The Nipple Piercing
10/19/99
Rosa bit into her doughnut and grimaced with the knowledge that although the doughy morsel was delicious, it wouldn't do either her figure or her heart any good. Rolling her eyes, she swallowed it with a gulp of coffee, managing to spill some that dribbled in a thin line down her chin.
"Christ, I'm not very lady-like this morning, am I?" she asked herself as she wiped her chin with a napkin. "What the hell, after being with the Rourk's and those super-hung guys the other night my hands are still not steady."
Still, she laughed to herself as she disposed of the doughnut, reflecting that her pussy was still sore after the marathon fuck-fest that she and the others had had at the Rourk's. She laughed again as she recalled fending Dutch off last night. 'Now that was a first,' she thought, remembering his hands being all over her and how she had resisted his best efforts, pleading soreness for the first time in their relationship and persuading him to accept a blowjob instead.
'He was a prince among men' she told herself.
'With a cock that was . . . stupendous? Well, what could she say about him and/or it? It was a magnificent weapon, if indeed it was a weapon.'
Feeling randy for the first time since the orgy, she waltzed into the office, ignoring the stares of the boorish guys already at their desks and sat down at her desk and began to thumb through the pile of prospective clients that might or might not be dropping by or calling in that day.
Soon she was lost in the mundane activities of the realty business. Cynthia, the receptionist at the office, came in late as usual, with a loopier than normal expression on her face. She looked as if she had a secret and it was a good one.
Rosa noticed this right away, but had no time to waste wondering, she guessed it might be an illegal substance of some kind, but really didn't care all that much, she needed to sell a property and soon if she were going to win the latest contest among the sales force.
Some forty minutes passed and after hanging up the phone with a good prospect, Rosa took a good look at Cynthia.
"All right, I can tell that you're dying to tell me something. What is it?"
"I got another one," she giggled inanely.
"You got another ---?" Rosa made an awkward hand gesture, waving it as if to say --- What?"
Cynthia put thumb and forefinger together, as if gripping a needle and thrust forward. "A piercing," she said in a loud whisper.
How was Rosa supposed to notice? The girl already had both ears pierced to the hilt, not just the lobes, but all up around the outside of the ear, with a little gold circlet for each hole. And, inevitably, there was a faux diamond stud in her nose, which Rosa hoped Cynthia would live to regret. Because barring an overdose of Ecstasy, or a losing bout with some STD, Cynthia would wake up and find herself a fifty-year-old woman with fallen arches and varicose veins and a fucking ring in her nose.
She studied the girl. What had she added? Nothing in her eyebrows . . . God, not a tongue stud?
"Not your tongue," she said, and Cynthia extended the organ in question and no, it was whole and untouched, and from their past sexual dalliances it was just the least bit provocative.
"Okay I give up," Rosa said.
Cynthia giggled, and yanked down the front of her scoop-necked blouse; exposing two plump and pert breasts and one of them had a gold stud in the nipple.
Rosa looked around in alarm, but no clients were in the office at the moment. Rosa knew that could change at any time and told Cynthia, "My office, now and close the damn door."
Cynthia calmly tucked her treasures away and went into the office and after Rosa entered, closed the door.
"When did you ---?"
"Friday, right after I left here."
"How the hell ---?"
"I know, I know," Cynthia said, "I didn't think I could go through with it. I thought, oh shit, this is gonna hurt like a motherfucker. But it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be."
"But why?"
"Well she puts ice on it first, and that numbs it up a little, and ---"
"No, that's not what I meant. Why do it? Why even have it done?'
Cynthia appeared to have a problem with Rosa's question. "I don't know," she said, "I've been wanting to do it for ages. And I heard about this woman, that she's really, really good, and like the person to go to if you're serious about piercing."
"You're not concerned about infection?"
The girl gave Rosa a dumb look. "I never had any problems before."
"But the location . . ." Rosa found herself thinking about Kathy and how close she was to wanting to do something similar and made a mental note to talk to her about it.
"You just turn it once a day," Cynthia prattled on, "same as with an earring and, you know, put alcohol on it. It's easier than the earrings 'cause you can see what you're doing."
She let it go at that, but later, just before closing, she told Cynthia she still couldn't understand why she had this urge to get her nipple pierced in the first place.
"It's exciting, Rosa. It's like this secret thing. It's like a sex secret."
"I see," obviously Rosa did not, but felt she had to respond.
"Plus," Cynthia went on, "It's just plain hot."
"Like a turn on for all the guys?"
"Probably . . . but what I meant is that it's . . . " she paused and brought her fingers to her breast, "You know how it feels when someone plays with your nipple and it gets hard? Or when you do it yourself?
Rosa nodded.
"Well, that's how you feel all the time."
***
Rosa was at a stage in her where from which she didn't want to miss anything. Now that she had met Dutch her sex life was soaring to new heights. They had tried it with another couple -- Alice and Robert; they had seduced Cynthia during one of Dutch's office visits --- well it was more like inviting her to join in with them. And the others: Doctor Sharon and her nurse; and Molly; and picking up that poor woman who was murdered later the same night; and Marilyn, Dutch's ex-wife . . . doing her under the table . . . and so much more.
Cynthia had said, "That's how you feel all the time," and those words had provided a jolt to Rosa's loins --- almost as though Dutch had licked her there. Her horniness was almost overpowering and she was tempted to seduce Cynthia then and there.