The feedback I got told me you liked the first one, but didn't have a lot of suggestions for the second one. So I just played by ear to come up with something I think is even better than the first one. I hope you agree.
Work. Ugh. Not that his job ever really thrilled him, but today especially Casey found it unappealing. The back of the counter of the Burger King had never looked so disgusting. His passionate afternoon with Erin yesterday simply refused to get out of his head. After that, looking at a cash register and a line of hungry customers was like following a delicious cheesecake with a plate of broccoli.
He and Erin had barely spoken at school today. In the classes they had together, they had exchanged a number of long, sometimes sensual glances across the room. They had met briefly during the lunch period, but that meeting had been filled by more awkward silence than actual words. They exchanged a little "Hi," and "How’d the studying go?" Neither of them seemed able to say anything important, no matter how hard they tried.
The afternoon had gone by equally uncomfortably. The task of homework had simply dragged on and on, as every few minutes he would look over to the phone, waiting for it to ring, wondering why he wasn’t going over to pick it up himself and call her. Everytime he closed his eyes, even if he just blinked, he could see himself just as he emerged from the thrall, hammering away at her, staring down her bare, beautiful chest, his equipment disappearing into her again and again. Then, hours later, it was time for work. There had never been a longer day.
Well, time to face the music and get on to the next customer. "Hi, what can I get—" He suddenly looked at his customer and went silent.
"Hi Casey."
"Erin, what are you doing here?"
"We need to talk."
"Yeah, I know, I’d love to, but now is really not the time for it."
Erin sighed. "Casey, I’d like us to say more than a few short sentences before it’s tomorrow."
Casey was beginning to lose patience. "Okay, I think we’ve done that now, and I’m getting paid by the hour here, so either order something or stop holding up the line." Erin scowled. "Look, Erin, don’t think I’m not happy to see you, but your putting my payroll on the line, okay! We’ll talk when I get off."
The guy behind Erin was developing a serious bug up his ass. "Hey, did I walk into some kinda youth club by mistake, or can I actually order something, damn it?"
Casey and Erin exchanged a look, and Erin moved aside.
As it turned out upon inspection of the time, Casey only had about a half hour left for the day, so Erin wasn’t kept waiting long. As soon as his uniform was packed up, Casey stepped out and said, "Let’s go outside."
Their conversation outside the building started much like their previous meeting: silent. When the silence finally became unbearable, Erin said at last, "So what are we going to do?"
Casey looked at her questioningly. "Do?"
Erin’s look turned incredulous. "With the machine!"
"Oh." Casey suddenly cocked an eyebrow. "We?"
Erin shrugged. "Well now that I know about it, you can’t expect me to just let you have all the fun, you know!"
"I see." Casey said. Then he said nothing. Neither did Erin. Silence again.
That is until Erin started chuckling. "You know something really ironic that I realized in school today, is that I’m a spaz who just had sex in a school with a lot of popular virgins!"
Casey thought, and began laughing with her. "Hey, that is interesting!" They laughed some more, then it died down…silence again…then an urgent thought came to Casey’s mind. "Oh, speaking of which, I wonder if, you know, we happened to…if you…as a result—"
"I’m not pregnant," Erin cut him off. "I checked."
Casey breathed with relief. "Okay. But we’ll have to be careful about that next time."
"Now that’s another thing I think we need to talk about," Erin added, "the possibility of there being a next time. We need to talk about us. Especially considering this mind-control gizmo we have that we’re more than likely going to end up using to get a bunch of other people in the sack."
"Is that your prediction?" Casey smiled. "Okay, well, I guess if we’re going to be fair about, you know, sharing this thing, we should probably alternate ownership of it every week, maybe on Monday or something, and we should probably blah blah blah blah…"
Casey was still talking, but his words were beginning to become incoherent. At least to Erin’s ears they were. She found her mind beginning to drift. She wasn’t paying any attention to his words; it was his lips she was looking at. Those tempting lips. In a burst of unrestrained need, Erin suddenly grabbed Casey’s head and pulled him into a ravenous lip-lock. Her arms wrapped around him in a death hold, and she rolled them around along the wall, ultimately knocking into the trash cans and dropping to the ground. Her hand began rubbing his bulging crotch through his pants, while his hand reached down under her skirt.
"Erin? Erin, I’m talking here!"
"Huh? What?" Erin suddenly snapped back to reality. "I’m listening!"
Casey cocked an eyebrow. "What were you thinking about?"
"Um…nothing."
"Uh-huh."
"Look, whatever, just what were you saying?"
"What I was saying was we should probably take turns with the machine, like every week," Casey explained again.
"Yeah, I caught that part."
"And I said we should keep tabs on each other, and keep each other informed as to how we’re using it."
"Yeah?"
"And I said that I’ll hold onto it this week and let you have it on Monday."
"Okay?"
"And then I was going to get into the part about us, but that was when I noticed you looking kinda spacey and concluded you weren’t listening to a word I was saying. Thus we arrived at this moment."
"You know what," Erin said, "maybe we should just leave it at this for tonight. Maybe we should just let the us thing pan out. And we make sure that anyone we decide to…well, screw…stays under for the whole…session. No one else knows about this."
"You’re really okay with us doing it with other people? After what we did yesterday?"
"Oh come on, what else are we going to use it for?" Erin smiled. "To take over the world? A little hard when you can only keep a hold on people for two hours you know! That’s only really enough time to use someone as a love slave."
"You’ve got a point there," Casey mused.
"But we’re going to have to be careful not to go overboard with this," Erin added. "This much power is a big responsibility, you know!"
"Yeah, I suppose."
"At any rate, I don’t we should get like…involved, you know. We’ll regard yesterday as a fling." Erin noted the questioning look on Casey’s face and said, "This doesn’t mean for a minute that I don’t love you, Casey. I’ve loved you since I even liked boys. I just don’t think we should be a couple or anything just now. That way sleeping with other people won’t be considered cheating. And if we end up doing it again, it’ll be just another fling."
Casey began to chuckle. "You know, this is weird!"
"Don’t I know it! Uh, which part of this specifically were you talking about?"
"I’m talking about hearing you say these things. Until now, the only time I’ve heard you talk about sex was the sex-ed course in bio class. Now you couldn’t sound more casual about it if you tried."
Erin shrugged. "Well what can I say?" Almost against her will, and without even much conscious knowledge of it, she started inching closer to him. "Yesterday was good. I enjoyed it. A lot. I want more."
Casey couldn’t help being painfully aware that Erin was coming slowly closer as she said these words. "Do you want to do it again?"
The concept hit her like a bolt. Was that precisely what she had in mind, or the last thing on her mind? She honestly didn’t know. She did know one thing, though: It certainly wasn’t without appeal. Okay, well that was putting it mildly. She loved the idea. But her conscience didn’t. Yesterday’s ordeal had certainly awakened an animal in her, yet her moral voice hadn’t changed, and it was telling her that she shouldn’t. If she slept with him again tonight after yesterday, who was to say they wouldn’t do it again tomorrow? And the day after? And the next day again? They’d become the very thing she just said she wanted to avoid.
"No. I should really be getting home now anyway."