Parkour is how I broke my neck; to be specific, missing the ledge of a wall. After a stint in the hospital, I got to go home to my own bed in my apartment. My head and neck were held perfectly still by a metal brace that literally screwed into my skull. My injury required me to lie in bed on my back without moving for a full week. After that - for six more weeks - I'd be free to walk around in the Frankensteinian contraption.
I couldn't sit up, turn my head left or right, or bend my neck to look toward my feet. My pain level was close to zero as long as I stayed still, but I hated the immobility. I'm an exercise junkie, a movement addict; I love thrill sports (refer to breaking my neck, above). I kept reminding myself to be thankful I wasn't dead, or worse yet, paralyzed from the neck down.
The first day at home, I tried to distract myself by keeping my cellphone in front of my face, but I soon grew bored with Netflix, Tik-Tok and YouTube. I tried to read a Kindle novel, but it went nowhere. By the late afternoon of Day One of bed rest - 6 1β2 days to go - I was already going stir crazy.
My saintly girlfriend Cate had volunteered to sleep over every night so she could hand feed me breakfast. When she left for work, Old Mildred - that's what we called the gray-haired home-visit nurse - would arrive and be on hand all afternoon. Then I'd be on my own for about an hour until Cate got back from work. She'd check in on me, then go for a run or swim or bike ride, then hang out with me until bedtime.
Since I couldn't watch TV, Cate would read to me: news, poems, short stories. Being read to was nostalgically pleasant, like being a little boy again, and that had been my favorite part of each long, tedious day.
I said, "
had
been my favorite part," because beginning on the third day, a new, bewitching pastime developed.
About an hour before Cate got home, my bedroom door opened and total weirdness followed. The visitor
crawled
into my bedroom, too low for me to get my eyes on them.
"Hi. Who's there?" I sounded more calm than I felt. I was in an utterly vulnerable position, and the bizarre behavior and silent treatment spooked me. "Why are you sneaking? Who are you?"
No response. The creepiness factor had me freaking out. "What the fuck? Say something."
"Relax, you're safe," said a soothing female voice coming from below my view on the right side of my bed. The mystery woman smelled strongly of patchouli.
Then she pulled the bedsheet and cover down. I felt cool air on my bare cock. "I hope you're not related to Lorena Bobbitt!" I said, and I was absolutely not kidding.
At her first touch I jumped. As lightly as a feather duster, her slender fingers began to glide along the shaft of my limp cock, and on the return stroke, fingernails just as gently scratched the skin. She kept up the caressing, fingertips in one direction, fingernails in the other.
"What the hell are you doing?" I said. "Who
are
you?" I tried to lift my neck to see who was fondling me. "
Ow
!" That move hurt at all the points where the brace screwed into my skull. My neck did not budge a bit, and she stayed low, invisible. I couldn't even see her fingers unhurriedly teasing my thickening and lengthening cock.
"Lady. Stop! Whovever the fuck you are, I
mean
it! Stop."
She obeyed me no more than my renegade cock. I sensed it was fully hard, and her fingertips and fingernails tracing the swollen shaft felt electrifying. Then she began to flick my cockhead with her thumb and forefinger; it produced a sharp little sting, followed by a wave of pleasure as blood rushed to the spot. The skin tautened over the engorged knob and I could sense its heat. I got goosebumps.
"Alright then, for the court case when I sue you, this is me officially saying 'No!' I do
not
want you to touch me!" Which by then was a lie, because she had begun to sweetly massage the head of my cock, still glowing from the stings. It felt so damn good!
"The gentleman doth protest too much, methinks," came the female voice to my side, and she removed her hand.
My abandoned cock twitched with each heavy pulse, achingly hard.
"So, you'd rather skip the blowjob?" she said.
I stared at the plaster ceiling. The outlandish encounter was some kind of power game, and I didn't want her to think I was her helpless little sex toy. But...
"You win."
"Say it."
"Uh, I'll take the blowjob."
"Polite?"