Author's Note: All characters are over the age of 18. Story will include soft themes of mind control (fucking duh, mate).
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I lived about a half-hour's drive from campus, which was a good length for podcasts. Also a good length for major freakouts, I discovered. I strangled the steering wheel as I drove, tapping 15, 20 mph over the speed limit in my mindlessness. The highway was pretty empty and a straight shot to the suburbs, so autopilot wasn't too hard.
After learning I had somehow called Miranda, and
had still been on the phone with Miranda
, I had hung up and sprinted to my car, as if fleeing the scene would somehow help. Through my drive, I'd been building a timeline of events to understand when I had called her, and what that call had potentially done. As best as I could tell, I called her before I entered the bathroom -- maybe when I was fumbling with my phone in my pocket, or opening it to access the spank bank -- and I had never noticed the line was hot in my raging horniness.
I wasn't a very responsible public masturbator. Sue me. (Please don't.)
Miranda had clearly picked up and heard...enough. I tend to mutter to myself as I jack off -- dialogue helps me get over the edge, okay? -- and it's not like I had a reason to worry about eavesdroppers. She had known what I was doing in the bathroom.
But her knowledge didn't explain her participation, and it definitely didn't explain her enthusiasm. Why didn't she just hang up and bury that unfortunate blunder deep, deep down, where her memory would never find it again? She wanted to suck my cock -- she told me like six times -- and she had taken my compromising position as an opportunity to do it.
That was fucking weird!
I considered the likelihood that Miranda had a raging oral fetish she exercised on all of the men in her life as I finished the drive, judging it as "extremely unlikely but not impossible" as I pulled into my driveway. My house was dark, empty -- always was in the evenings. My dad was an overnight orderly at a healthcare facility in the city seven nights a week, and worked day shifts for a couple of landscaping contractors whenever he could get them. His love language was not so much quality time as it was making sure there was food in our fridge, and that was fine by me.
It was just us two back then. I didn't remember Mom and Dad didn't want to. We sometimes talked about her when one or both of us was drunk; I was pissed at her, but he got why she left, though he never really elaborated on why. We'd usually start yelling at each other, drink some more, and fall asleep -- that was okay, too. He ran one dogged sprint back and forth between paycheck and bill; I bent underneath the crushing weight of expectation, ever fearful that one misstep would yank my scholarship and sink both of our brighter futures. Sometimes we just needed to drink and blame somebody else with our outside voices.
I grabbed a beer from the fridge and popped it as I made a sandwich for a late dinner. Dad knew I drank and didn't really care so long as I didn't drive, and with the money we had both invested in that fucking car -- a hatchback 2007 Focus, rusting along the bottom and obstinately veering to the left no matter our best efforts -- I wasn't going to make that mistake. I deposited my tutoring money into our giant turtle dish on the kitchen table, holding a $20 for myself for gas and food. The turtle's careful stewardship of our funds kept the lights on and A/C running; Dad's heart insured and the internet functional, if a bit lethargic -- he was a turtle after all. His derpy face kinda looked like post-Watergate Richard Nixon, so we called him Slick Rick.
That night, I wondered how you were supposed to ask someone
why
they suddenly wanted to sprint to third base after consistently denying you an at-bat. That was really the question here. That -- and if Miranda really
was
down for similar soirees in the future, as she had intimated earlier. I wasn't comfortable with answering the second question until I knew the answer to the first. I didn't want to look a gift dicksucker in the mouth, as it were, but I bet blowjobs felt even better when you understood why you were getting them.
Still felt pretty good the first way, I guess. I fell asleep that night with thoughts of Miranda's cum-streaked face, her fingers between her smile as she sucked them clean.
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...and I woke up with a massive hard-on. Surprise, surprise. After dealing with it the best way I knew how -- once again without needing any visual aids -- I started my morning. Catching my reflection in the mirror, I stopped and chuckled to myself, perplexed that I was so externally consistent despite my inner change.
I'm realizing now I never did the whole fucking "just your average guy" thing that they do in these stories. Here goes.
I'm Ben. Last name? Probably not the best idea to give you that. Shorter than average, thinner than average, so I guess the average thing doesn't hold up. Previous romantic partners have said my glasses are cute and my jokes are funny, so I lean into that. I don't exactly know what I'm doing with my hair on any given day, but it's brown and shaggy. Can't grow a beard yet and not sure I would if I could -- I have a round, babyish face. My smile has been described as "arrogant" and my body as "wiry." My dick has never been described, and I'm not planning on starting that here. It's just a dick.
My dad was K.O.'ed and I had a mission, so I grabbed breakfast to go and called Miranda from the car. She picked up on the second ring.
"Hey Ben!" She huffed a hello -- I'm sure she was on the treadmill, wrapped only in a sports bra and matching leggings, shining with exertion. "What's up?"
"I want to talk to you about yesterday. There's things I don't understand that I feel like we need to get cleared up before anyone's feelings get hurt." I had decided on this line last night, when it had sounded
way less
like a 14-year-old's creation. "Are you free today?"
"Oh." She sounded legitimately concerned. "Well, if it's serious, you can come over now. I'm finishing my workout, then I was gonna eat and clean before heading out with some of the girls."