Sheryl cast a sidelong, irritated glance across the tastelessly decorated lounge. Her stern demeanor didn't fit well with the slinky, form fitting black cocktail dress she was wearing, or with the rich red velvet and too many gold tassels adorning nearly every surface of the stereotypical "bad 70's hotel bar" decor. From her perch on the bar stool, the twenty-something-year-old couldn't believe what she was seeing.
Mel disappeared from her life without explanation or apology two weeks previously, just as they were finalizing their wedding plans, and there she was, big as life, just like the detective Sheryl hired had said, cozied up to some biodick and giggling like a ditz at some inane bullshit or other slobbering out of the asshole's toxic mouth. Sheryl was fuming.
She felt a tap on her shoulder and her head snapped toward the unexpected contact before her face had time to adjust itself, her eyes momentarily burning holes through the head of a suddenly wary middle-management type who had probably spent considerable energy working up the nerve to approach her at all.
"Oh great," thought Sheryl, "fuck this guy! As if every woman who wants a drink in public also wants to be touched, or hit on."
She glared at him, her focus tightening on him like thumbscrews.
"Well?" she finally growled.
"Um, I didn't know you wanted to be alone... sorry," whoever the fuck that was said, as he turned around nervously and walked back to wherever the fuck he had been sitting.
Sheryl rolled her eyes, groaning inwardly at the ignorant presumptions men routinely make based on the fact that they have a penis and testes that may (or may not) have dropped. Momentarily distracted, she glanced back to see Mel and whoever she was with walking out of the lounge.
"Fuck."
She dropped $20 on the counter and nodded thanks at the bartender who had been purposely doing anything at the other end of the bar, to give her space. As she left the lounge, she spotted Mel and whoever she was with about to get into a Bentley.
"God, Mel? What the actual fuck? Was everything I thought you were just a lie?" Sheryl wondered silently, in disgusted exasperation.
She rushed out to hail a cab. She hopped in and raised an index finger at the car containing her betrothed, cringing as she heard herself say the clichΓ© line that also happened to be the most rational way to instruct the cab driver, "Follow that car! The Bentley! Follow it!"
The cabbie chuckled, "Okay. You're the boss."
She paid her fare with a generous tip when the Bentley deposited Mel and What-the-Fuck? (as Sheryl had begun to think of this guy Mel was apparently drooling over) at a high rise building. The driver of the Bentley pulled away from the curb as Sheryl haltingly made her way across the street. She got to the elevators just in time to see that it had deposited the pair on the eighteenth floor of the nineteen story building. She boarded another of the four elevators and rode to the eighteenth floor. Getting off, she realized there were only four dwellings on this level.
"What the hell?" she thought, considering what the square footage of each must be.
It was a large estimated number, which translated into a large source of wealth and a possible motive behind Mel's behavior. Melissa was only twenty-four years old, and it would be the first time a sugar daddy flashed glitter in a woman's eyes to get them to abandon all loyalties and commitments.
"Damnit, Mel, is that it? Did you leave me for money and luxury? Is that what you really wanted, the whole time?"
Sheryl thought back to her fierce, loyal lover Mel, challenging her to finally come out of the closet to her family, despite the fact that it would most likely mean disinheritance or being disowned. Had that all been just an act, so Mel could benefit from a possible windfall in the future, in case Sheryl didn't get disowned?
"If so," Sheryl mused, "you deserve a fucking room full of Oscars for all of your performances, Mel."
Fixing in her mind a picture of What-the-Fuck, she turned up the dial on her internal courage all the way to eleven, and knocked on a door.
"At least I will get Mel to explain this to me, herself, whatever the fu-," Sheryl's thought abruptly died in her brain.
The door swung open to a incomprehensible vision of Mel, breasts bared by a dress pulled off her shoulders and puddled around her waist, on her knees in front of a grinning What-the-Fuck, who was buried nuts deep in her throat.
"Ah, sheryl. Come in! you're right on time."
Sheryl's mouth flapped a couple of times as she sort of stumbled into the room, turning as she passed to continue staring at the woman she loved, the woman she was engaged to, performing deep-throat fellatio on some guy, a sexual act Mel had explicitly expressed intense disgust about just three weeks previously.
"W-wh-what the actual fuck, Mel?" Sheryl challenged, incredulously.
What-the-Fuck grinned at Sheryl's discomfiture, "she's a little busy right now, sheryl, but I'll let her talk with you as soon as she swallows My cum. It's rude to interrupt My good little girl in the middle of worshiping Me."
At the words "good little girl" Mel moaned loudly and hungrily in orgasmic bliss. It was a sound Sheryl had heard often as Mel's legs involuntarily shook and squeezed against Sheryl's skull or hand, bathing her in fluids.