While the people, places, and events found herein are all based on actual people, places, and events, I have changed them all so significantly so as to protect the innocent (and the guilty) that they don't really resemble reality. These are basically real-life inspired works of fiction.
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So here's the thing you need to know about me:
I used to be a minister. Yep, I was a bona fide minister at a big Baptist church in North Carolina for the last decade, up until just a few months ago. I started there just after graduating from Duke Divinity School back in '06. But a few months ago, I stepped down and moved to Los Angeles to manage a hotel (my original college degree was in hospitality).
Why the change, you ask?
Well, I could say that I did some things there that I regret. Nothing illegal, but some things that you could definitely say were unethical. But there's something that must be understood about those unethical things, because they all led up to a great big realization one spring Sunday morning.
That morning, as I stood on the chancel steps greeting the congregation, it dawned on me that I had fucked one out of every five women in that room. You figure that there were about 250 women in there, that's about fifty of them, and all fifty of them between the ages of 18 and 45, which meant I had, in the Biblical sense, gotten to know nearly half of the Millennial and Gen-X women in that room.
See what I mean about unethical?
Now, in my defense, I never cheated. I've been single this whole time. And I've always been a very sexual person. I did my fair share of screwing around in college. My fair share, your fair share, and Bob Thompson from down the street's fair share. I can't really define myself in one sexual identity, either. I guess bisexual with strong hetero leanings would probably be the best way of looking at it, because while I prefer women by a good sight over men, I've still taken a dick (or ten) up the ass, usually in the context of an MMF threesome, but not always, and enjoyed the fuck out of it.
And if you've now started getting judgmental about my sexuality, you can just fuck right off. Ministers are sexual people, just as much as anybody else. Maybe more, even, because people have such cracked out expectations of us that we repress it and then it comes roaring out like a damn lion. We're straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, transvestite, transgender, intersexual, you name it, there's at least one minister of the Word and Sacrament of the earthly Church of Jesus Christ to be found in each of those categories. You may not want to think about what happens when those solemn black robes come off, but we like sticking things in each other and getting things stuck in us the same as any other human being, and a whole lot of us do it in a fairly queer fashion, too.
Anyway, after banging my way through college (being in the University of Tennessee marching band provided for a LOT of chances to bang, because band geeks are a bunch of horny little fucks), and then screwing my way through Duke Divinity School (including one HIGHLY memorable moment during Christmas Eve service in Duke Chapel, and yeah, I'm probably going to hell for that one), I got called to be the associate minister for youth and a whole bunch of other responsibilities at this Baptist church. Now, I'm not gonna tell you which one, or which city it was in, so for simplicity's sake, we're just going to say it was First Baptist Church of Podunksville, North Carolina. Pretty much as generic as you can get with those names.
My first few months there, I hit a bit of a dry spell. Matter of fact, I'm pretty sure that first summer at FBC was the longest I'd gone without anybody other than Rosie Palm busting my nut since I was in high school.
But then, Labor Day weekend happened. I got invited out to the Outer Banks with a family from the church.
And that was the weekend I banged a thirty-five year old married former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader.
Let's take a walk down memory lane, shall we?
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I got to the end of my first summer at First Baptist, and I was exhausted. I had gotten there in May - right after graduation - and had started going without stopping ever since. Camp, VBS, mission trips, parties, lock-ins, you name it, if it had the youth and kids somehow attached to it, I was part of it.
Well, one of the families noticed that I was seeming a bit run down. Dan was a dentist who spent his time playing Marines in the Reserves; Jeri was a journalist. They had come to North Carolina from Dallas when she got pregnant with the younger of their two daughters, six years prior.
They had gone to college together, he had knocked her up during their senior year, they got married, she auditioned for and got onto the Cowboys' cheerleading squad. Mind you, that was a mere six months after she gave birth to their now seventh grader. Needless to say, this woman's body was ridiculous.
Anyway, they invited me out to the Outer Banks with them. At the time, I thought nothing of it, but given that there have been three further occasions on which I've banged Jeri since then with Dan watching, I have to think they knew what they were doing, that it was an audition of sorts.
We got out there on Friday night, at around dusk. There was still enough daylight to go out to the beach, and that was the first time I got a good look at Jeri's insane body. She strutted down to the sand in a thong bikini that would've given a blind man indecent thoughts. She had a couple of little dimples around her belly, but those were the only signs that she had ever been pregnant.
I found myself walking behind her with Dan on the way down to the beach, mesmerized by her swaying tight ass, each gently sun-kissed cheek bouncing a bit as she walked. I guess I must've been a little less than subtle, because Dan chuckled and said, "I do have a smokin' hot wife, don't I?"
"Oh, gosh," I said, my face turning instantly red. Over time, I would grow comfortable enough with the members of the church to say "shit", "fuck", and so on around them, but three months in, "gosh" was about the strongest word I was gonna say. "I wasn't - I mean - I was just -"
Dan laughed. "Don't worry about it, Paul," he said. "She's got a great ass. She knows it. She expects men to look at it. You think she'd wear that thong if she didn't?"
"Yeah, but she's a member of my church," I protested.
With a shake of his head, Dan rolled his eyes. "And you're a man who, unless I'm very much misjudging why you were staring at my wife's ass, enjoys the company of women."
"Well..." My voice trailed off. "Yeah?"
"Yeah." Dan clapped a hand on my shoulder. "Look all you want, my man. It's a great ass to look at."
I spent that night looking at her ass. The next morning, too. But then, disaster struck.
Well, you could look at it as disaster. You could also look at it as good fortune. It's really up to you.
Dan decided to order in Carolina BBQ for lunch, and I partook heavily of that and of my good friend Samuel Adams. I then laid down on a towel, put my sunglasses on, and between my full stomach, the mild temperature, and the pleasant offshore breeze...
"Paul... oh, God, Paul, you need to wake up."
I groggily opened my eyes to see Jeri looking down at me with distinct concern written on her face. "Huh?"
"Paul... when did you lay down?"
I thought about it a minute. "Uh... one...ish?"
Jeri closed her eyes and shook her head. "Paul, it's nearly four. You've been lying on the beach for almost three hours, and I bet you didn't put any sunblock on, did you?"
I had not. "Uh-oh," I muttered. "Uh... how bad?"
"Well, I could pour a can of Cheerwine on your stomach and it would blend right in."
That sounded bad.
Half an hour later, I was back at their beach house, lying staring at the ceiling on my bed. Dan, taking one look at my torso, had dissolved into nearly-choking laughter and then said he was going to take his daughters to go get ice cream. "I will leave you in the tender loving care of my wife," he informed me. "Good luck."
"What the hell did Dan mean by good luck?" I asked Jeri, as I lay on my back, eyes closed, contemplating the world of pain into which I was about to enter.
"He meant that I use some fairly unconventional sunburn remedies," she replied, thrusting a bottle of water into my hand. "Drink that."
"I'd rather have a beer," I grumbled.