As Erin's lips slid down over my length I gasped and lay back on the couch. Relief suffused me: the only sound apart from her wet murmuring and my groaning was the distant noise of traffic. There was no hint at all of that hideous fluting which had dogged me for so long.
The curse had finally been lifted!
A few drinks after work had led from one thing to another and I'd finally got Erin to come back to my apartment for a coffee.
I'd spent the entire evening in tormented horniness at all her teasing. After starting this new job, I'd been approached by several of my female colleagues, but fear of the curse made me rebuff them all. Since I didn't give off any gay vibes, word got around I was some sort of religious type who was saving himself for marriage, so of course the older women I worked with made it a competition to try and break me.
I'd finally succumbed to temptation and let Erin, my manager, 'seduce' me, if pushing her boobs in my face could really be called seduction. It was three weeks since I'd returned from Ireland and there'd been no sign of the curse during all that time, so I decided either the curse was localised to that country or I was finally been shown mercy after so many months of suffering.
As Erin really got to work on me I felt a sudden attack of paranoia and glanced about the room. No, the curse must really have been lifted. It always appeared well before anything like this happened.
"Oh god, you're so hard," Erin gasped. I pulled her off and she giggled with schoolgirlish delight as I turned her onto her tummy, lifted the hem of her skirt up, pulled her pants down and covered her curvy pale butt with hungry kisses. I let my hand slip up inside her blouse over her tummy and to her hanging boobs and teased her hardening nipples between my fingers.
She moaned and wriggled and I held onto her. I knew I should take things slow - it'd been months since I'd had any kind of sexual release - but when Erin began to push her butt up at me, I decided there was no point wasting any more time and mounted her.
I slid into her sticky heat, making her gasp and myself tremble at this long hungered-for sensation. I ran my hands along her ribs and down her smooth stomach as I started fucking her in earnest. I paced myself, but even holding back I was soon eliciting frenzied gasps from her that echoed my own.
"Oh god, more!" she moaned, tossing her long dark hair.
It was then that I heard the tin flute start up.
No. No, no no. No, not now!
The thin notes of the unseen instrument capered through the air and after a cheeky and arrogant trilling it reached a crescendo before falling away.
And then I saw it, sitting on the kitchen bench on the other side of the room and watching me with cruel humour in its dark, glittering eyes. It took the flute from its lips and grinned.
The curse.
So it hadn't been lifted. It had just been biding its time, waiting for me to be lulled into a false sense of security.
'The curse', as I called it, was about three and a half feet tall and dressed all in green: moss green trousers with a gold buckle, a little green velvet vest with glittering buttons worn over a light green blouse trimmed in white lace, and last of all a hat, a tall conical hat of the same moss green as the trousers with a superfluous buckle on it as well for good measure. Dark eyes and an upturned nose set in a pale, pixyish face with a long red beard completed the picture.
I'm sure you've seen this sort of thing before: on the sign of a plastic-paddy Irish pub or a St. Patrick's Day Party flier or on the front of a cereal box.
Yes, I called it 'the curse', but anyone who didn't know how evil it was would laugh and say it was 'just a leprechaun'.
With a wink, the leprechaun hopped onto its feet, brought the tin flute to its lips once more and began to play a rousing jig.
At the first sound of the flute my previously eager strokes had slowed, but now at the appearance of the creature and its spirited dancing I came to a complete standstill.
"What's the matter?" asked Erin, looking at me over her shoulder. She pushed her hips back against me and groaned lustily, but it was no use. I rapidly lost hardness as all desire drained from me at the sound of that diabolical flute and the spirited and ridiculous dancing of its diminutive owner.
Who doesn't know what happened next? Erin, her pride wounded by my inability to get hard again, grabbed her handbag and stormed out, muttering about gay men in denial. I lay there with a terminal case of soft cock as the leprechaun finished its little jig and took the tin flute from its lips. It swept the hat from its head and bowed with an arrogant flourish.
You had to give it to the creature, it was a consummate showman.
I stared at the thing balefully as I put my clothes back on, wincing at the frustration that wracked my body.
"Ah, now that t'was a pretty lass," said the leprechaun in its high, girlish voice. It sat down on the counter and kicked its legs back and forth, considering me with a malicious smile on its lips. "A pretty raven-haired beauty and no mistakin'."
"Shut up," I said.
"Aye, t'was a dreadful thing to leave such a pretty one unsatisfied and pantin' for more..."
I slumped back on the couch. "Just shut up."
"Now, now," said the leprechaun. "T'was no charm of mine that unmanned ye, but yer own subconscious guilt. Maybe next time ye'll be more careful before ye offend the Fair Folk."
The Fair Folk. It was talking about the fairy people of Ireland, the leprechaun's taller and more antagonistic cousins.
"I apologised to them," I muttered. "I had the tree replanted. What more do they want?"
The leprechaun shrugged its shoulders. "T' see ye appropriately punished for yer arrogance I suppose." It sighed. "T'were the height of foolishness to ignore the warnings of yer fellows."
The leprechaun, much as I hated to admit it, was speaking the truth. I'd done just that. After travelling to Ireland to renovate the old farmstead my aunt had left me in her will, I decided to build a garage on the property to increase its rentability. An old, half-dead birch tree sat beside the house and I decided it had to go. But none of the builders and landscapers would do the job for me, claiming that it was a fairy tree and muttering about the dire curse that awaited any who messed with the 'Fair Folk'.
Like an arrogant asshole I'd ignored all their warnings, thinking they were just having fun with the clueless foreigner. I cut the tree down myself and soon after the dire curse that everyone had warned me about fell upon me.
At first I thought it was a little person who had been put up to the job by the annoyed locals, but I quickly discovered that wasn't the case. No-one except for me could see the leprechaun or hear its voice or the sound of its flute. I decided then I was either going crazy or someone was slipping hallucinogens into my drinks down the pub, but when my blood tests came back clear I quickly had to admit the leprechaun was real. After a while its presence stopped being strange and I even began to find its comical appearance and spirited capering somewhat funny, but I soon learned to hate it. For the leprechaun made it a point to appear every time I came close to having sex with someone. At first my laughter at its appearance would spoil the moment - what woman wants to hear a guy start chuckling while they're standing there naked in front of them? But then I came to dread the sound of that flute and the little green creature playing it, and the merest hint of its appearance would strip all desire from me.
I tried hypnotism and exorcism, but to no avail. I even planted a new tree and begged the 'Fair Folk' for forgiveness, but the leprechaun, with its saucy grin and infernal jigging, continued to appear at the most infuriating moments.
And so I sold the house for much less than it was worth and fled back home. I'd hoped that leaving Ireland would leave that infernal creature behind as well, but now I knew the curse was going to follow me wherever I went.
I pushed the heels of my hands against my eyes and fought back a sob of despair. "How long do I have to suffer this punishment?"
The leprechaun shrugged. "King Oberon bade me come and vex you, 'tis all. He neglected to say fer how long."
I groaned and shoved my hands between my legs. My blue balls had begun aching fiercely.
The leprechaun's eyes flickered downwards and its wide grin reappeared. "Well, til next time, laddie. Have yerself a good evenin'!"
It swept the ludicrously large hat from its head and leaped inside, whereupon leprechaun and hat and all disappearing in a cloud of golden sparkles.
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I drank half a bottle of Taliskers and slumped down into my bed either to sleep or die - I wasn't picky, really. Dead drunk I was finally free from my overpowering sexual frustration enough to sleep.
As I slept, I dreamed. I had that dream with Christina Hendricks in it - you know the one, where you're sitting at a desk with a glass of whiskey in your hand and a cigar in your mouth and she walks in in that dress then gets on her hands and knees and crawls under the desk and unzips your fly and starts blowing you? Yeah, that dream. As soon as her lips slid over my dick I bit through the cigar, spilled the whiskey all over the paperwork for the Whatever Account and started to cry at just how amazing it felt. I pushed the chair back, not wanting to miss a moment of watching her pleasure me as I so richly deserved. Her beautiful red hair was in the way, so I pushed it aside and saw that my dick was balls-deep in the leprechaun's mouth. It glanced up at me and winked, then got back to work, its long beard wagging as its head bobbed up and down on my dick.