For the six or seven readers out there who've been clamoring for a story spun off from
A Quickie in the Commodore's Office,
here's a cautionary tale featuring Cameron, future guitarist for the Kabuki Hikers, and his adventures just after he graduated from high school. It's weird writing a first-person narrator who's kind of an asshole, but I tried.
Enjoy!
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"Dude." The voice was tinny in my ear. I badly needed a new phone. "I'm bored. I want to come over."
I glanced down into my lap, my bare legs spread wide to make room for the redhead I had maneuvered down there, where she had her cheek-hollowed mouth locked around my scrotum. "The timing's not great, man," I admitted.
"Shit, Cam," he moaned back. Aidan was a great guy and a really good friend. He and I had been inseparable since day one of junior high. "I'm just sitting around here with my sister."
"Oh?" I tried to keep my voice neutral as the redhead moved up, her fingers light on my thighs, to start on the root of my cock. She knew exactly what she was doing. I wondered how long I could decently wait before I pulled off her bra. "Kristin's back from college?" I hoped my dick didn't pulse a little in the redhead's mouth. I'd been trying to get into Kristin White's pants since... well, forever. Since I'd figured out what to do with my penis, after Gianna Clewer had demanded it in her pussy on my eighteenth birthday.
She'd been a nice girl, Gianna.
I certainly knew what to do with it now, my hand lifting the redhead's chin with insistent pressure, pulling her up. I wanted the whole thing in her mouth, and she was happy to oblige; she uncoiled her long body from where it had crouched at my balls and knelt tall and gorgeous before me to slide her lips down my pole. I let my head fall back onto the couch in ecstasy. "Yeah," Aidan was sighing in my ear, "spring break. She's back for a few days, then heading off to Punta Cana or some shit."
"Cool," I managed, my dick twitching in the girl's mouth; she suppressed a giggle as she wrapped her tongue around the veiny midsection, lashing me, those long auburn locks swishing over my groin. I wondered vaguely if I'd have time to head over to Aidan's house and make a play for his sister. "Tell her hi for me."
"I'm bored," he whined again. "Eva's busy too, she says, so she can't even go to dinner with me tonight."
"That sucks," and so did Eva; it was her mouth my cock was spasming inside. She'd been dating Aidan for about four months, and licking my penis (off and on) that whole time. Longer, actually; she'd fooled around with me a couple months before they'd even started going out, but only casually. A quick fuck after a party over at Gretchen Barry's house, if I remembered correctly, though there'd also been another couple of girls riding my dick that night.
Who could keep track?
"Look, bro, I'm going to have to let you go," I sighed as the redhead's lips tightened just below my head; jesus. the girl was an outstanding cocksucker. She was wasted on Aidan, and I was grateful that she apparently thought so too. My hips were bucking, pushing deeper into her mouth, and she was swallowing my head like a pro. "I've got to get to work."
"Fine, dude," Aidan frumped. "Call me later."
"You betcha." It would he a long, sad afternoon for my buddy Aidan, probably filled with shitty weed and videogames, but then my own few hours at the coffeeshop wouldn't be much better. Though at least I'd start off with empty balls, courtesy of his girlfriend. "See ya!"
I beeped off just as Eva started sucking in earnest, her fine-fingered hands on my balls now, and she responded perfectly when my hand pushed steadily on the back of her head. "That wasn't bullshit either, Eva," I told her mildly. "I do have to get to work." I'm experienced; I can usually hold off cumming when I want to, but Eva was abnormally good.
She slurped up off me in a welter of saliva, grinning cockily, her fingers clinical on my nutsack. She was an excellent judge of how far she needed to go. "No problem. I just need a couple more minutes," she husked, all sultry, with her hand jacking my dick, and she was exactly right.
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I probably should have changed my underwear before work, but BFD; Andrea had me on the drive-thru anyway, so who was I trying to impress?
Ahab's was a newer chain of coffee shops, regionally franchised, and the locals still weren't sure whether they liked what we sold. Certainly,
I
hated it; I got my own coffee from Harborside Book and Tea, and Andrea always glared at my cup as I came in. But there was nothing she could do about it... except put me on drive-thru. Which she usually did anyway.
So there I was, like I was every other lazy afternoon in that long, hot summer after I graduated from high school. My job was a constant effort to stay awake and alert; very few people drive through for coffee on summer afternoons. I lacked any distraction other than secret glimpses of my cellphone under the counter, my world bounded by the winking lights and LEDs of the register on one side and by the square of daylight leading to the outside world on the other.
That square depressed me.
There was nothing out there but the silvery humid sky, a strip of dirty grass, and the blank stucco side of the building across the way. I'd memorized that building: the crack at the top left, running diagonally downward, jogging here and there where it telegraphed the old brickwork under it. That one window in the back, probably an office, all smoked glass and with the blinds always pulled. The little basement entrance up front where a set of mossy stairs led down to Mickey's Music, where I bought my strings.
You could, if you leaned out and peered around the corner, see the main drag out that way and the daycare center on the other side of Wilmot St, but there was no point. It was just cracked blacktop and more stucco, the strip-mall trademarks of 21
st
century America. In the evenings the store signs threw garish light all around, the glow sickening as I waited for the last of the evening rush.
I was dying here. I was glad I had a light on the horizon, at least. That I wasn't Andrea, staring down a life sentence in shoddy retail coffee.
A car eased into view on the LED over the register, a silver Toyota I didn't recognize. The grainy monitor showed big sunglasses and lots of coily hair. I keyed the mic. "Welcome to Ahab's. How can I help you today?" I asked listlessly.
"Hi." The voice sounded familiar, but the buffers in the digital system meant that was often the case. The other day, I thought I'd heard my mom come through. It had turned out to be a guy in a pickup truck. You never know. "Can I get, like, a Caffe Americano? Do you guys do that?" She sounded hopeful.