"What is your favorite thing in lovemaking, Ray?"
"I like it all Leigh. Although I have never had anal intercourse."
"Never? Well, that's O.K. Neither have I. Sounds like it would be rather painful. What do you enjoy a lot?"
"Oh, Leigh. I like oral sex."
"Giving or receiving?" Leigh asked. She sounded a little anxious.
"I like both, honey. I will admit to you I like getting it, but I like going down on you, Leigh".
I could hear Leigh breathing a little heavily on the phone. She liked for me to eat her. I loved to eat her. If Leigh liked cunnilingus but not going down on me, then fine. Because personally, I was lucky. I was her lover, somehow.
Leigh was my friend. There is class and there is money---why people don't see the difference, I don't know. She thought I was attractive and she thought I had some class.
Dissatisfied with her husband, and with latest changes in the NHL, Leigh chose me to have an affair with. Being the horny little bastard I was and am, I went for it. I was, in Leigh's opinion, a lot younger. But our affair was her idea. She was the instigator.
Leigh was giving enough. She gave me something to make arranging things easier, a cellular phone. I truly did not want her to pay for a wireless, but it was a no contract phone. I never called Leigh. When she called me Wednesday she was out in the sticks on her truck. I was outdoors smoking.
"Do you think it's more fun on the floor, or in a chair, or the bed?" Leigh asked. It sounded like she was at a shopping center now in Greater Baked County.
"Honestly Leigh? The bed is the place. It really is."
"I think so too, Ray. So listen, baby." I was listening. "I am taking off Thursday and Friday. Friday Mother and I are going to Vance County to see her cousin. I want to see you Thursday."
I want to see you Thursday. Those six words turned me on. A woman who was not a court official, or a doctor, saying she wanted to see me in an official matter. Leigh in her clear and pretty voice saying she wants to see me. "Are we going to play parlor games?" I asked.
"No, Ray. I want to suck your cock. I want to give you head slow and lovingly."
I had quite a coughing spell. Then I put the phone to my ear again and said "Leigh, are you there?"
"Yes, Ray. I'm here." I asked Leigh when and where and how and what I must do.
Leigh told me she'd send me an instant message and she went into the shopping center to meet her friend for a sub. About six o'clock I got the message and wrote back: "O.K. Yes. Fine. Great."
The message said: "I am going to get us a room where I can. Probably John Hobbit. We can park behind the hotel. Why don't you bring us some cold cuts and cheese. Can you get me some vodka?"
That night I jotted down some items. Then I went to the supermarket down the street. I bought:
a small pack of turkey, another small pack of white sliced chicken, and a pack of ham, all thin slices. Monterey Jack cheese and Claussien pickles. Wheat crackers, pimiento stuffed olives and Pepperidge Farm cookies. Pomegranate cocktail.
I drove over to the ABC. I had not been there in quite a while. It was a cinch to go into the store and buy Leigh's vodka. I didn't want any whiskey. I did not want a drink of anything, and did not mind seeing anyone else drink. I knew one thing, and that was I wanted a very good drink for Leigh. I bought her three airplane bottles of Grey Goose vodka.
Before I went back to the refugee camp I went into a dollar store and got some paper flowers to decorate the hotel room. I bought some candle jars too, jasmine and mulberry. I thought that with some conscious effort we would not burn the hotel down. We might set the bed on fire with our burning hot bodies.
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Thursday morning dragged by. I was in the nearby park, smoking cigars and killing up time. I thought about all the time I've been back in Goldbug, my social alienation and living without HBO. I have spent so much of my life alone. But I get more loving than poor misfits just like me. It's getting better.
Now there's Leigh, and I am enjoying her. I sat and smoked another seventy-eight cent cigar. God, how have I managed to get in the sack with her? This affair was going to end soon. I wanted something good to come out of it. I wanted Leigh to bang her husband five or six times a week after the two of us said our goodbyes.
But I really thought Leigh would keep on doing what she was doing. Not doing it with the man of her house. All I could do was have fun with her, in private. I wasn't her sex therapist anyway, I was her boyfriend.
The little cellular phone played "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" and I picked it up. "Hey" was all I said. I was open to any suggestions of intimate touching.
"What are you doing?" Leigh said. She sounded happy, upbeat.
"I'm at the park, enjoying a breeze. Where are you, sweetie?". It was a little after 12 P.M.
"I am in the break room, alone for a moment. Did you eat?" Leigh asked.
"No. But I have some party snacks."
"I have a room for us. It's at the John Hobbit, on the third floor facing back."
"That's great, honey. How much was the room?" I took the last drag from a cigarillo and tossed it. Leigh would not say what the room was.
I said "Honey I wanted to get the room." I really did. I didn't care if it was easier was on Leigh.
"It's O.K., Ray. This was my idea. I don't do parks."
I laughed. "Well, I've had a good time in some parks."
Leigh told me the check-in time. She said she found a little something at the Walmart for the occasion. I hoped it was a little something that wasn't Daddy's old cotton tee-shirt.
The John Hobbit Hotel was a 20 to 30 minute drive, over in Feltford. I was going in my own car. I was going to spend the night there, alone, and Leigh was going home to her husband.
So I'd be staying alone overnight in the nice hotel. That was kind of bittersweet.
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