Norman had finally given in and bought an X-Box. He bought some accessories too -- some memory cards, a remote control, the network adapter to connect to
X-Box Live,
and an extra controller for when his friends come over. He also bought a slew games too, such as Big Mutha Truckers, Madden Football, Metal Gear Solid: Substance, Halo and Halo 2, Midtown Madness 3, The Italian Job, Spy vs. Spy, State of Emergency, Simpson's Road Rage, The Sims, Full Spectrum Warrior, Brute Force, The Hulk, Half Life 2, Cel Damage, BloodRayne, Roller Coaster Tycoon, BMX XXX, Dead or Alive 3, Mech Assault, and Morrowind.
With loot in shopping bags snuggled between his feet while he rested outside
Gamerz World,
leaning against an ornamental column, he looked around the mall to determine which of four directions the food court might be located. Four avenues came together in an elegant two-story intersection. Second level balconies overlooked the huge elaborate fountain sunk into the floor before him. It amazed him that these temples to capitalism put such fantastical displays of ornamentation so that people like him can buy video games amidst gregarious displays of wealth and beauty.
The crowd noise combined with different background music emerging from each store created a din that made it difficult to think. He couldn't wait to get out of this place and hook up his new toys!
Yet, the crowds that jammed themselves into these places fascinated him. A fat woman and fat man walked by. Countless women with babies in strollers, too. Fortunately, an occasional hot babe could be spotted as well.
Hmm, there's a cute one,
he thought as she walked past right in front of him. He stared at her walking away as her tight little ass wobbled back and forth. Then he saw a tall well-built black woman with short kinky yellow hair get off an escalator and walk the other direction. Then he noticed her big bulky boyfriend right behind her and looked away. Oh, man, a tall blonde walked out of
Victoria's Secret
across the way with a little shopping bag full of unmentionables that would surely make her man happy tonight. Such tight jeans and bare midriff demanded male attention.
Oh man! I'd do her in a flash!
he thought to himself. Scanning for his next fantasy, he caught the eye of a 200-lb. mother with two kids in tow. She smiled at him, and he smiled at her, then each dropped their gaze. Raising his head again a moment later to look past the fountain in the middle of the wide corridor, he saw, in the distance, a cute girl with long straight black hair come out of
Fashion Bug
on the other side of the fountain. She was dressed well too, with a white floral blouse and neatly pressed tan slacks that fit just right.
Hmmm, not bad. I'd do her!
he thought in silence.
His heart skipped a beat when she suddenly jolted to a stop, almost causing the people behind her to crash into her. Curious, he continued watching her from this safe distance across the fountain. He watched her walk around the fountain, looking this way and that, with obvious anger in her eyes. It took her about a minute to walk through the crowd to his side of the tremendous fountain. She stopped and put her hand on the brass rail circling the fountain. From about 30 feet away she looked in his direction as if looking for someone.
I wonder what's got her tits in a tempest,
he thought with a grin.
Suddenly, she glared right at him. Norman swallowed hard when she approached him. As she came closer, his instinct was to drop his gaze, but he forced himself to keep eye contact and see how this played out. After all, he'd never seen this woman before in his life, what could she possibly want with him?
She walked right up him and stopped. She stood there with her face less than two inches from his.
"Hi," Norman said, "do I know you?"
"Not bad?" she whispered, though it sounded like a primal scream to his ears.
"Huh?" Norman spurted.
"You'd
'do'
me?" she insisted.
"What are you talking about?" he asked her, though he suddenly felt his face turn red.
"My tits in a temper?" she growled again.
People had started to gawk at the scene of two lovers having a spat in the middle of the crowd.
"I said 'tempest,' not 'temper'," he said.
"Oh, so you admit it!" she said and slapped him -- hard.
"Ow! Wait!" he urged, "How could you have heard that? From all the way across the fountain? I didn't even say it -- I just though it!"
"You shouldn't be thinking such rude thoughts about people!"
"What? Look! I apologize if I offended you, but I have a right to my private thoughts!"
"Yeah? How'd you like it if I told you that I'd 'do' you?"
"I'd love it!" he answered.
"I don't believe you!" she answered.
"Then don't believe me," he said and began to lean down and grab his new toys to leave this crazy woman.
She stepped even closer and said, "I bet!"
"What bet?"
"That you'd really be intimate with someone just because they said they'd 'do' you."
"Yeah, I sure would," he insisted.
"Prove it, you creep!" she demanded.
"How?" he asked her.
"Just come home with me, even though you don't know me, and the only thing you do know about me is that I can't stand your guts!"
"And do
what
when we got to your home?"
"You know what, you bastard!" she said.
"You'd fuck me even though you can't stand my guts?" he asked her.
"I know you won't. Nobody, man or women, no matter how low their self-esteem, would defile him or her self to be intimate with someone who hates him."