"You're not gonna come over and talk to me?" Erin was eying me as I sat on the couch at a friend's birthday party. She stood a few feet away, but it was like she had some weird power over me, almost big sisterly but totally sexual. This sort of switch turned on in the back of my head whenever we were in the same room. It wasn't definable. I didn't love her and I felt more than lust for her, cared about her happiness. She was only a year older than me, but it felt like she was an older woman, even when we were in high school taking the same math classes.
"Not if I can help it." She faux frowned. Part of our game, poking and prodding each other. She wore a loose blouse and jeans, she looked thinner than the last time I'd seen her. She went from fit to chubby and back, seemingly every couple months. But God, it didn't matter, there was something about her that I was always attracted too. She wasn't real curvy, plain face...had plump tits, amazing legs. Whenever I saw Renaissance paintings I thought of her, that sort of face that must of turned guys on centuries ago.
"Oh, so it wasn't you that flew down to DC last fall just to see me?" I'd broken up with a girl and had been talking to Erin every night, which lead to a Halloween weekend sex marathon.
"I get in trouble when I'm around you." She sat down against me, drink in hand, flipped her light brown hair. I could smell her, I felt her heat radiating and was instantly aroused.
"I heard from my sister that you were getting engaged. I wish you would of told me, Jay. It kinda hurt." She was an emotional mess for as long as I'd known her. Which meant she was honest. Ever since we first messed around in high school I'd been someone she could talk to. Maybe I took advantage sometimes.
"Danielle is a good girl, she went to our school briefly, you probably wouldn't recognize her." She looked around.
"Did she come? I'd like to meet her. I'm sure she's gorgeous." Here's where in the past I'd step in and tell her she's incredibly attractive, which would lead to a night of intense lovemaking before she had to travel back to DC. But this was a new era for me. I had to place Erin firmly in the past.
"She's a nurse, works crazy hours. I've a pic on my phone." I dug out my cell and showed her a candid winter shot of my girlfriend.
"I'm glad you've got it together. I'm recently dumped. He was about to move in and get serious, instead he jumped ship." She smirked, I smiled. She was self-deprecating in that fun, easy-going sort of way.
"Truth is, he wasn't that great looking; super boring, did me a favor by dumping me."
"Really?" She nodded.
"If I stayed with him I would've missed out on some of the dirtiest sex of my life. I met this guy in my building, we've had many nights of fun... He's got a girlfriend in Baltimore. I've accepted it for what it is."
"Well, Erin, I'm glad if you're not with the man of your dreams you're at least fucking your brains out."
"Thanks, Jay." We were still in that friendly banter mode, so I figured I was safe for a while longer sitting there with her talking about sex. That was our thing. I was like a girlfriend of hers one moment and the guy trying to get in her pants the next. Hopefully, we'd stay in the friend mode. Odd, I should want to simulate a female friendship, but I guess it was for my own protection.
"I've told Danielle a lot about you, she knows you seduced me and took my boyhood away." Erin laughed and hit me hard.
"On stage... I was technically a virgin too, so don't go making me out to be some seducer." It was after school, a bunch of us used to hang out in this hallway behind the auditorium until our parents came to pick us up. There was all the normal flirting, I was actually interested in Erin's sister. It just so happened that one night my mom got off late. Erin and me were alone waiting for her sister to finish volleyball, the stage had a bedroom setting for some musical. We exchanged oral and ended up having sex on the prop bed.
"She knows you're one of my favorite people--you've been portrayed well." She stroked my arm where she'd just punched me.
"I'm glad, Jay." Danielle knew we had had sex off and on, she didn't exactly know how many times. She'd thought we were just that type of screwed up friendship, where the sex is just something we fell into when we were bored/horny and it wasn't as important as the banter. God, that summer she came back from college, all the breaks when I was in college, there were strings of nights every break for about five years...
"I guess they want to go swim, you bring your suit?" She always wore a one-piece, I'd been to plenty of swimming parties at her house. She'd always been the only girl in a one-piece, even those summers she could pull off a bikini.
"No way. Did you?"
"I'm a guy, boxers count as a suit if there's swimming."
"Except swimming trunks are made to hide the inevitable shrinkage. Boxers don't at all." She smiled and glanced down at my crotch for an instant.
"Yes, the dreaded swimming pool disappearing act. I'm actually wearing shorts without a button, so my little guy might peek out...I guess I won't be swimming either."
"That's too bad, cuz even with the curse of the swimming pool yours is still nicer than my ex's at full mast." She was starting down that path, eyes narrowing, voice lowered. None of my friends understood why I kept hooking up with her. They couldn't fathom how great she actually was in bed. For the sake of my future marriage I couldn't be reminded.
"My sailor thanks you, but I told the guys I'd play some pool with them downstairs." She pouted, let me get up and go down to the basement. The girls didn't go down to the rec room unless they were retrieving a boy. So I was safe, drinking and laughing with some of my oldest friends.
"Jay, what are the girls doing?"
"Swimming maybe, I don't know." Rick eyed me. Paul and Rob looked at each other.
"God, Jay, don't do it." Apparently, word of me on the couch with Erin had spread.
"Yeah, Danielle is a knock-out kid."