WEDNESDAY
"So what did you make me for breakfast?" Simon, my boyfriend's older brother who shared our apartment asked me. He snaked his hand underneath my arm and around my waist to get to the frying pan. A little too close as always. I mostly ignored him. But I have to say in the last six months after all us moving in together, nothing bonded me and Simon and more than snarky banter.
"Get off Simon. I don't have time for this." I upended the frying pan into the dish on the counter and rushed back into the bedroom to check if my hair straightner had warmed up. Camren, my boyfriend, was still in bed. We had been working opposite shifts which meant we hardly got to see each other. Whenever I complained about that within earshot of Simon, Simon always made it a point to say that if I just squinted a little bit I could pretend Simon was Camren. Which wasn't entirely untrue. Besides certain strikingly different facial features, both were a little over 6'2, black, with these arms that you just wanted to do chin ups off of. Or of course, let yourself get swallowed into. But despite that, Camren was a serial monogamist and Simon, was in the Guinness Book of World Lechers.
When I got home that evening around 5, Simon hadn't come home yet and Camren had already left. I made dinner, ate and left some for Simon in the oven. Minutes after I went back into the bedroom I think I passed out because the next thing I knew it was 8 PM and I could hear that the TV was on. I doubted that Simon had the presence of mind to check the oven for food so I decided to go out and say hi. As soon as I walked out the door I could see the living room TV and on the screen was the worst kind of modern porn with people just going at each other and something gave me the feeling that Simon wasn't just idly watching. I stepped back into my room unable to suppress a smile. After all how could I not do the whole snarky thing over this. I'd caught him jerking off. I opened the door again and despite slight feelings of apprehension about walking in on him I got to a few feet behind the couch before I stopped. I half coughed before saying, "Simon, really, it's not like you don't have a TV in your room. Do you really have to do that here?"
"The DVD player is broken," Simon said rather simply without breaking attention from the screen. Not the response I was hoping for. I was hoping for more of a jumping out of his skin response. And plus being snarky just isn't all that fun when he won't play.
"Simon, seriously, ew, you can't do that there. It's more than a little gross."
Simon said nothing for a full minute, still jerking off.
"Simonβ"
Still nothing but he turned down the volume of the DVD player.
"Do you really want me to stop jerking off?" he asked. I got the feeling he didn't have the greatest day at work. He had been having some problems there that I knew of and now I felt a little bad β just a little β about teasing him when he was pissed off about something.
"I have no problem with you jerking off. I'm sure you have yourβ"
"Do you want me to stop jerking off?" he cut me off a little strongly.
"Yes," I said obstinately, even though I was starting to feel rather uncomfortable in this conversation. This was supposed to be "ha ha" funny. It didn't seem to be heading in that direction. He just sounded like he was this odd sort of angry-calm.
"Then come here," he said.