For my muse...
Where do we begin tales of the unbelievable? In the beginning, with the believable, I suppose.
He met her on the Internet, the preferred communication of the new world, connecting all corners of the planet, all manners of being.
They had a lot in common and shared a juvenile, silly and depraved a sense of humor. They both liked similar books and food. In her opinion, your passion for those two things where indications of the state of your soul, being the two most important place you could consume from, your mouth and you mind.
They chatted for a while, had lots of cyber sex. He liked the way her lids closed half way when she came. She liked the way his breath sounded over the microphone. She would close her eyes and pretend he was there.
Eventually, they got to the point where it was time to meet. He was excited, she was excited, too, but reluctant. He worried that she wasnât as available as she said. She wasnât attached, but she was keeping a secret, and she didnât want to hurt him.
But she wanted him so bad.
Then it happened, she flew to him and they met.
He asked if he should pick her up from the airport, she told him not to worry about it.
âItâs taken care ofâ
âAre you sure?â He asked.
Honestly, he had a little scenario all planned out in his minds eye. Picking her up at the airport, watching her get off the plane, smothering her with kisses and big hugs. His plan was already starting to fall apart, before it even began. He felt the first twitters of panic begin in his stomach.
âLets just pick a place and time to meet. Iâll be there.â
He was uneasy with her mystery, but let it go. He was using the bad judgment we all use when we are eager for something. They set up the specifics, and both counted the days till they would meet.
He tried on seven outfits the morning she was supposed to arrive, and felt like a girl. He giggled at himself; he was excited.
She splashed on perfume she hadnât used in a very long time. It was the scent she liked for sex. It was sweet and spicy, laced with Bergamot and Vanilla and something else. That âsomethingâ else was a scent that no one else but she could recognize. It was the smell of her lust, musty and heady and sweetly rank the way decaying autumn leaves are.
He walked into the bar at the specified time. It was small and not very trendy, but it was quite. Not necessarily a place to impress, but a place to talk and get to know someone. He was really nervous. It was so strange meeting someone after you have developed a relationship on the Internet. Sometimes the chemistry that was so strong over a cyber connection just seemed to disappear in person. He hoped that wasnât the case, he wanted her so bad. Not just for sex, but truly wanted her. He wanted to have her, possess her, and incorporate her into himself. He tried not to think about it, it scared him.
There she was, standing right inside the door. She was taller than he expected, and somehow her presence was bigger than he could have imagined. She just drank up the room around her. Her smile was big and warm and very, very inviting. His heart literally melted when he saw that smile. But the panic in his belly flared up, instinctually, and he dismissed it as nerves.
When she saw him she couldnât help but to smile, inviting him to her. Her mind gushed all at once that he was lean and strong and handsome. But it was his eyes, deep and real, that made the panic in her belly flare. She lusted for him so badly it made her groin ache. She licked her lips, took a breath to calm the beast that rolled inside her, smiled and walked to him.
âWell, hello there, strangerâ she cooed at him. Her voice made the panic swell in both of their bellies. It occurred to them both at the same instant that this was for real. That was very scary to them both, but for different reasons.
âWell, hello thereâ he responded. He reached out and hugged her, pulling her close to him. All at once he was slapped with her smell. It was warm and subtle, but the effect was like a blow. It made him drunk and light headed, and as much as he wanted too, he couldnât concentrate of what she felt like.
Upon his embrace, her body tensed and her eyes closed and rolled back into her head. He was warm, so warm. She was but inches from his neck. She imagined that she could hear his heart beat, feel the blood rushing in his body, pulsing with each beat of his strong and true heart. She couldnât stop herself from nuzzling his neck more and laying her moist mouth onto its nape, giving a little soft kiss.
Her kiss cleared his senses immediately. His fuzzy drunkenness was replaced by an ache so bad that he caught himself clenching his fists at her back, stopping himself from grabbing onto her and forcing his possession right now. Panic flooded over him almost as violently as his lust. What the hell was she doing to him?
She could sense his thoughts as if he had said them. She couldnât let him go now, now that he was so close, his neck but two inches from her face, warm and real.
âLets not stay here,â She whispered into his ear, her breath and suggestion giving him an erection. He knew she could feel it, but didnât care.
âWhere do you want to go?â he managed to get out, needing to clear his throat. He was having a problem thinking about anything else but being inside of her. He wasnât good at multi-tasking.
âUmmmmâŠâ she practically groaned. âAnywhere, I donât care, I just need to be with you.â She whispered again. Her breath on his ear and neck where driving him crazy, impairing his judgment. âCan we go to your house? Is anyone there?â
He assumed that at some point they where going to make it back to his place, so he made arrangements with his roommate.
âYeah.â he consented. âYeah, we can go there.â His voice was eager and unfocused; all he could feel was her body and her breath. Small whiffs of her scent kept assaulting his senses. It drown out the panic growing in his belly, born from that vestigial place that recognized the lion in the brush when your five senses couldnât perceive him, but the fine hairs on the back of your neck knew he was there.
âWhere is your car?â She spoke a little louder now, and he turned his head to look her in the eyes. They were like none he had ever seen before, heavy lidded, darkly lined and so intense they almost glowed. He could barely respond under her gaze. It demanded all of him.
âUmm, out here.â He said, nudging at the door with his head, refusing to move any body part that was touching her. He was afraid that if he let go, even for a second, the spell would be broken.
She grinned at his obvious unwillingness to move.
âNot that Iâm not enjoying standing here, being held by youâŠâ she began. âBut I would like it a whole lot better if we where alone and naked.â
Her words burned into him like raw fire. They hurt his ears to hear. He didnât know if he could make it all the way to his house.
She let go of him, and took his hand in hers. The minute she released him, his panic took over and he suddenly realized that his hands where sore from being tensed so hard.
But her hands where soft and small and the logical part of his brain said
Look at her, she couldn't hurt you. And you want her...so bad. Go! You fool! Move!
And so he did, listening to the part of him that produced explanations for footsteps while walking at night and strange shapes projected on to darkened walls at bedtime.
The ride to his house was tense. He kept wanting to look over at her, to touch her, feel her. But she distracted him to the point of danger, not being able to drive and think about her at the same time. She sensed this, and they steered the conversation to her flight and his day, the kind of chitchat old friends have. But as soon as they where inside the house, it was like electricity shot off of them both. They where here and alone, and they both knew what they came to do.
âShow me your room.â She demanded, hidden inside a request. She watched him in front of her, pulling her gently to his door. His back pulled his shirt tight, and she could see the muscles that ran across his back, from the ends of his collarbone. The urge to pounce was so strong; she had to close her eyes to abate it. As soon as she closed them, she saw herself tearing the shirt off, sucking and biting those muscles from behind, her fingers digging into his chest. She decided open eyes where safer than closed.
Once inside his room there was only a moment of awkward waiting. He had her by the hand to lead her to the room, but once inside he turned to face her. The impression of intensity that he had about her gaze before was paled by what stared out of her face now. He had never seen someone look with such need before. He could sense her lust for sex, but for something else, too. Something he had never seen on anyoneâs face before, but that he had hidden from his own gaze many times. It was the sheer need to consume.
When he matched his gaze with hers, something broke between them. Any sense of reserve they had dissipated instantly by the sheer need to be inside of each other. He yanked the arm he still held to himself, crushing her with his embrace. He immediately bit down on her neck, as hard as he thought he could get away with, and simultaneously felt teeth dig into him. Their teeth clung to that place in the nape of the neck where the tendons attach it to the shoulder.
But, panic overwhelmed him suddenly; when he felt her teeth breach his skin, dig into his flesh. On one hand it felt good to be hurt, to be plied with her teeth out of passion, but on the other it was painful. A part of him felt violated by her unexpected penetration, an the panic that has been building, that he had been diligently ignoring to this point, spilled over him like a flood, drowning out anything but complete fear.
âWhat theâŠâ He shouted as he pushed her away. But the sentence was stopped cold when he saw her face, downcast eye, blood at the corner of her lips.
The sight of it made him more afraid than he had ever been in his life, and his anger swelled to meet his fear, dwarfing it, so he wouldnât have to feel it.