After I got home from McDonald's parking lot, I could taste Miko and smell him all over me. I felt sexy and guilty and nervous about what I would do in my relationship now. I got home and looked around at our apartment, our pictures, our memories. My heart, which had moments before been so thrilled by Miko's attention, was now heavy with sadness as I remembered the things I used to love in my relationship with Steve.
The whole infidelity had hit me like a charging bull, out of nowhere, so it almost didn't feel real. When I woke up this morning, I had no idea I was going to cheat on my boyfriend, suck another man's cock, and swallow his cum. All of it just sort of happened as I let go into the moment, and it wasn't like I just stepped outside of my relationshipβit was as if I'd stepped outside of my life. I'd been plodding through my own existence on a treadmill, and suddenly I'd derailed, done something spontaneous. And having that tiny bit of distance now allowed me to look at my daily routine, my role as Steve's meat puppet, my struggle to build my business, and just see how weary and unfulfilled I'd become by everything.
Emotions were hitting me from both sides like a riptide. The picture of Steve and I on the fridge was taken in South Beach, Miami two months after we met, and I beamed proudly in his arms wearing my sexy frilly bikini while he held me with strong arms and gave the camera a sly look like 'eat your heart out, this is my girl'. He'd been a different man, then, doting on me and excited to do things together. For at least the last three months, probably more, our relationship had been a slow descent into boredom and disconnection.
I actually think I just kept blowing him all the time because it was a fun way for me to get off, having my boyfriend's cock in my mouth, and also because I wouldn't have to have sex with him. I realized that I hadn't wanted to lately. Sex used to be so intense it could go from feather tickling tenderness to being dragged back and forth across the bed like a human windshield wiper while Steve plowed into me and had his way, then poof he would shift gears and dote all over my bruised, shivering body with soft kisses and caresses. He was pure animal and also sincere sweetness and kindness and caring about me.
But somewhere in the daily grind, all of that had disappeared and been replaced by this watered down version whose idea of passionate sex was shoving his dick in my mouth while I was trying to watch TV, and then romancing me with some absent-minded knee-squeezing while he passed out in post orgasmic bliss against me. Why had I stood for this, and how had it become normal? Trying to swallow this terrible fact was like having an oversized glob of peanut butter lodged in my windpipe: it slid slowly and painfully into my consciousness, inching along and hurting the further it went.
One minute I'm glad I cheated on him and I want Miko to fuck me right now, and the next moment I'm crying as I remember the way Steve used to touch me. He was as sweet as Miko in the beginning, which made me wonder if Miko would then suddenly get used to me after a few months and start not caring. Is that just what every guy does, once they've got the girl? Did I actually know any couple who was truly happy being together?
I sat down on the couch without showering or changing. I'm not going to wipe the evidence away, I decided, I'm just going to sit here and wait and tell Steve the truth. Then at least I will be living in tune with myself, and not trying to hide behind a guilty lie.
Steve had cocooned me away in some mind-numbing malaise which I didn't even notice happening. My girlfriends barely texted me or asked me to do anything anymore, and even my bestie Sarah hardly ever called or hung out. Last time had been a hurried coffee after work, then she left to go clubbing and I dragged myself back to the tomb. And Jeffrey Spurning, my bestie gay friend who we all call 'Sperming' or 'Sperminator', had had a new boyfriend for three months that I hadn't even met yet! I was a social yokel all the sudden.
Did Steve really do that to me? No. I allowed it all to happen. He just got irritable or argued with me or made it sound like I was neglecting him if I wanted to go out. And that's how my life began to orbit his, and my needs became less important, until I'd sunk to a near friendless, subservient level.
Sucking Miko's cock was empowering.
But now I heard Steve's boots thumping through the garage, then the sound of our kitchen door, and I had the biggest knot in my stomach. He hung his keys on the rack by the door, kicked his boots off, and walked into the kitchen. I was sitting so still he didn't notice me at first, and I watched him walk to the cabinet and grab a glass. Before he made it to the fridge, he saw me and said, "Oh hey. Why didn't you turn on any lights?"
It wasn't dark out, but it was evening and the light was behind the evergreens in our backyard, leaving our house eerily dark. "I didn't want to," I said.
He flipped the kitchen dimmer, and the track lighting roared into my vision like a blinding flash. Steve's silhouette hung in the middle of it like some ominous, shadowy enemy until my eyes adjusted.
"What's up, honey? Everything okay?" he said.
This made me choke up, and all of my resolve that he deserved to get cheated on suddenly crumbled in that moment. I shook my head no.
"Awww, what's wrong hon?" He walked across the living room and then stopped. "I just gotta say, you look really good right now. Super sexy." And his eyes showed me that look, like the photo on the fridge, where he was proud of me being his girl. Then he knelt down in front of me and took my hands in his. His eyes were like new, seeing into me, loving me.
I almost burst out crying at this point, but I held it in. He leaned forward to try to kiss me, but I pulled away. There was no way I was letting him kiss my slutty mouth with another man's cum in it.
"I..." I started and trailed off.
He smiled, totally oblivious, like this was some cute game I was playing. "Yeasss?" He said, dragging the word out.
"I have a confession," I finally managed, inching myself closer to the truth since I couldn't spit it out.
"You're so serious!" he said, looking soberly at me. "Okay, what's your confession?"
"I am serious," I said.
"What is it?" he tried to kiss me again and I squirmed away.
"I did something bad," I managed, squirming around the truth some more. It was over, I knew it was over. I was trying to think of any way for this to end, but there wasn't any. He was going to pack his stuff and storm out the door in T-minus 5...4...3...2...1....
"I cheated on you," I blurted out.
Steve's face froze for a minute with that half-smile melting off of it so slowly you barely notice, the way cloud animals morph into something else when you stare at them, trying to hold the shape in your mind long after it's gone.
"You did?" he said. No trace of his smile was left.
I nodded, bit my lip, couldn't look in his eyes.
Steve fell back so his butt landed on the rug and his back was against the couch, facing away from me. "Oh damn," he said.
I waited for more but there wasn't any. I thought by now he'd be throwing the coffee table across the room.
"Damn?" I said. "That's it?"
"How long?" he asked.
"How long what?"
"How long were you cheating?"
"Just today."
"Oh." He paused. "That's not bad."
"Steve, what the fuck are you on? I cheated on you!" I snapped this at him. I wanted some reaction from him and he was just sitting there like it didn't matter. "Do you want to know what happened?" I didn't wait for him to answer. "Miko texted me and asked how I was and I told him I wasn't happy at all and he insisted we meet so he could cheer me up. And I sucked his cock in McDonald's parking lot."
"Seriously?" he said.
"Yeah, seriously," I said back in a snotty tone, because somehow his responses were making me angrier. "And I swallowed his cum. And I liked it."