This is not fiction. This is something I actually did. You might find it disturbing. I, myself, find some of it disturbing.
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In the real world, sex is a whole lot different than in the stories. For one thing there's a lot more burping and farting. For another, strangers aren't very good at guessing what you are thinking. Yet another matter is that real life people often have garlic breath. Like the man I just played a little sex game with. He was a gentleman for sure, he was meticulously chewing chewing-gum even as he fetched his bag from the back of his car. His very new looking car.
That's a bit disheartening, actually. Looking at a date's car and seeing that he is certainly not a bottom feeder, before even seeing him. It sort of makes me think,
'Ah, crap, is he thinking, 'Oh, I've gone slumming'.'
Ignoring the disheartening as best I could, I opened my door, put on a smile, and as soon as he approached welcomed him and beckoned him inside. Another disheartening, he was casually stylish, wearing everyday clothing and making it look good. Not a cat's hair or a wrinkle to be seen on his mostly black ensemble. Making me feel a bit like a bag lady, standing there in my big black t-shirt and big black undies.
"You want a hug?" I asked, wondering why I asked even as I did so. Usually I just give them a hug, no awkward words required.
He said something along the lines of "Sure" and we hugged, and I led him from from my front door, up the stars to my kitchen.
I sort of hate it when they are neat and good-looking it makes me feel so small. So, of course, I kinda do like that too. There's a spice to just about everything, when meeting a new partner for my games.
Maybe taking a second to brush my hair would have been more appropriate than the minutes I'd spent brushing my teeth. His hair was short, obviously kept neat by a professional. Me, I cut my hair once a year by gathering it under my chin and chopping off a lump. It's cheap and easy. Well, he was warned, that was the plan after all. He was to do his social gathering. 'Hygge' with friends. Yeah, that's an untranslatable concept. A flaw in all English speaking cultures, but no nation is perfect. Oh, I derail, let me get back on track. So, he was to go do his thing - which unavoidably would involve eating a lot of garlic, I'm guessing white bread with melted garlic. Yum. Not much says cozy dinner with friends like freshly heated (or baked) white bread with garlic butter, and cozy goes with 'hygge' like... I'm sorry, again I derail. So, the plan was, he'd do his thing, and I'd try to catch some sleep while waiting for him to call.
I tell you this, so you can understand how it came about that a gentleman happened to eat garlic just prior to a date. Which anyone should agree is not normally to be considered a gentlemanly act. His continuing effort to chew out the stench was valiant and appreciated. But also somewhat chilling. He was chewing with big roundish jaw-movements while breathing through his mouth and his eyes were strangely cold. They are usually a bit nervous, my first time dates. Some more than a bit. This one had no hint of it. Now that I think of it, I believe he seated himself sooner than I thought to invite him to. No insecurity in him.
Not so the case for me. I'm always nervous when meeting people, less nervous when it is people I am about to have sex with but none the less. Him being of a higher league than me in every way made it even worse. Not yet a sign of appreciation. Of course, I try to hide it when I am nervous, mostly it is quite obvious though. My hand movements gain a fluttery quality and there's a stiffness to my lips when talking and adjusting my facial features into various friendly expressions. Both quite Hallmark traits of nervous, recognizable by just about anyone.
Gosh, I can't remember what we talked about. I got him a cup of water - he had had plenty of coffee before coming. There was a few words exchanged about some nothing in particular. We reviewed my safety word. ('Kodeord', like my fictional character Louise has in Unwanted Obsession, when I wrote that story and figured out that that was her codeword, I decided that if I ever needed one, it should be mine too. So now - that I actually do regularly need one - it is.) We also went over clapping with hands to be used in the same manner whenever I would be unable to speak. That alternative is always important. When I'm about to cry my throat sometimes constricts hard enough that I can't form words. Breath-control play makes the forming of words impossible too.
Our date had been swiftly made. He had written me a slightly sloppy, "liked your profile. have had years of experience of dominance. might have been up for taking you tonight if i werent on my way elseplace" that wasn't the exact phrasing, but the general gist was so. All low letters, sparse punctuation. Telltale signs of people using that sex site through their smartphone.
I replied with, "Auuw" followed by a weeping face.
He wrote, "why ar you crying?" Yes, there were typos.
"Because you showed me a lollipop," I replied, adding another weeping face. "Then you told me how good it was. Then you said I couldn't have any." I added a a third weeping face into there somewhere. They have good weeping faces on that site I use to find men to play with. Big blue tears running down the sides of a little yellow face, mouth open in a wail of anguish.
I think I shared with him my sob story of how I was supposed to have been set for a sex date that saturday but had, yet again, been tricked by one of the 'oh so annoying' cockcheats on that site and was now finding the day fading away and hardly anyone online from the force/humiliation category.
Well, as a true gentleman, he apparently decided to aid this damsel in distress and offered that he could come by after his thing. Thus came about the somewhat unorthodox arrangement that lead to him showing up with garlic breath and me opening the door with unbrushed hair.
"So, you needed to shower?" he asked, with really no tone to it.
The question caught me unaware. I was on some other trail of thought and speech when he made it.