I left work early that day to meet my wife, Amy, before we headed out for a night of fun and debauchery. It was Mardi Gras weekend, a time to have a great deal of fun. The kids were at their grand parents for the weekend, wine, beer and vodka all ready to go, and my whole body was aching for the total attention I was going to get.
Never gonna stop
Give it up
Such a dirty mind
Always get it up...
The knack's My Sharona played in the background and I had almost missed it. Instinctively, I started to sing to it and all the memories rushed back in. The memories of a night such a long time ago, yet so vividly clear in my mind. It happened on my last year in college, shortly after I met Amy, and shortly before I understood what was in store for me.
Frank, Diane and Amy came by the bowling alley where we always bowled on Tuesday nights. Frank had the ability to drink beer to improve his game. Me, it was very different. If I drank any beer while playing my average plummeted from a healthy 190 something to a barely acceptable 130. Frank also had the ability to get any woman he wanted. He was medium height, blond hair and what most women called "charming" looks. I don't know, I never saw it! But, then again guys don't do anything for me. Amy on the other hand, Amy thought he was a hunk. Yeah, a hunk alright, a hunk of shit! But, he was my best friend.
Amy was dressed in a hot pair of cut off shorts that showed a healthy portion of her lovely rear end. She had a very covetous figure juxtaposed on the musculature of an otherwise very athletic build. Amy's face was sweet with a natural pout on her prominent lips. Her hair was reddish blond that cascaded down onto her shoulders. As you can tell I think she's a very hot baby.
I grabbed by bowling ball, wiped the oil from it, and looked over at Amy to make sure her luck would flow from her fiery blue eyes to me. Our eyes locked for a moment, her mind talking straight to mine in a language only our bodies understood. I spun the ball on the towel and dried my hands on the blower to make sure I would have the perfect grip on the ball. I walked to my mark, froze there for a moment seeing in my mind the perfect approach, release, roll and strike. All I had to do now was deliver the ball on the eighth board from the right gutter and then to shake hands with the head pin. This smooth motion would deliver a perfect ball, the rest was up to the pins. As I moved forward I could feel Amy's eyes on my back, and I kept wondering who was that tall statuesque woman walking towards Frank and Diane. In that moment of distraction was the dooming of my game. I released the ball right over my mark, my wrist rotated; I shook hands with the head pin, and came to a smooth stop – just over the foul line. Too bad, too, because I had a perfect strike with the pins being pushed back neatly out of the way, as though they had exploded.
I turned and looked back at Amy and shrugged my shoulders, smiling at my support group and my own personal cheerleader.
"Did you see that?" I asked Amy
"Yes, that was a beautiful strike! You had a great game going there." She smiled sweetly at me.
"Hey Frank. How come you didn't get here in time to play?" I asked
"These three beautiful women asked me to take them out to dinner – so what's a man to do?" he asked, adding... "Did you meet Tammy?" and he pointed to the woman I had noticed earlier. Wow, what a looker! She made all my collegial hormones roar. It was not love; it was nothing but primal lust. This was very unusual, especially since I met Amy who satisfied me in ways that I had not expected a non-professional (read prostitute) to be able to do for me. We were both supercharged sexually and had taken every opportunity to explore the far extremes of what we would accept from each other, and had not even come close to finding it. Tammy on the other hand, was not a college girl with raging hormones; she was a sophisticated woman some 8 years older than I was, and a body that craved attention.
"Hi," I said as I reached to shake her hand.
"Hello," she said shaking my hand, "so, you are Amy's boyfriend. I've been hearing a lot about you tonight." She said.
I looked over at Amy to see her reaction. She smiled and gave me a very knowing wink. The problem was, I did not understand what she meant and this was not the time to stop everything to ask a silly question.
"Oh, what have they been saying about me?" I asked as I put my arm around Amy pulling her close to me.
"We've been telling her how good of a bowler you were, and how committed to the team you were. And, that's why you couldn't take us girls out to dinner." Amy said, kissing me softly on my cheek.
"Well," I said, "at least you told the truth"
We all talked for a while, while I finished the last game and then we moved to Azars Big Boy for the traditional breakfast at midnight. There were a lot of people walking around in what at some point in the night had been costumes. I kept looking around and tuning in and out of the conversation, and occasionally catching myself staring at Tammy.
In the background I could hear one of the new songs from a group called The Knack,
...Running down the length of my thighs sharona
The lyrics to the song were very provocative and seemed to fit my mood. As I looked around I noticed that I wasn't the only one that was captivated by Tammy and her conversation. She had the ability to draw you into her orbit, like a moon circling its parent planet. Captured without hope of release, at least without damaging both. I looked from Tammy to Frank and Diane. They were both captivated by her. I looked at Amy and I noticed a chemistry there that I hadn't expected. Tammy flirted with me, right in front of my girlfriend and no one minded.
I had not felt such a rush of hormones and adrenaline as the moment when I was openly flirting with Tammy and Amy softly caressed my hand. At first I didn't notice. It was like the time I cheated on my last girlfriend, except that there was a more powerful rush. The rush was driven by the fact that I was completely caught. Amy knew my every move. I had used them on her; the soft caressing with my words followed by the caressing of my fingers lightly touching her back and her neck. The lingering caresses that she had felt earlier in the morning before we headed to class. All of those feelings, those emotions, those explorations that were reserved for the first conquest were right there for my girlfriend to see. She watched as though in a trance and softly encouraged my exploration.