I was in a funny mood the night of Danny and Elaine's Christmas party. I'd had more than my share of the old egg nog, if you know what I'm saying. I was trying to wind up under the mistletoe with anyone other than my boyfriend Terran. You know, for variety.
I guess by 'funny mood,' what I mean is a little bit horny. And I wasn't trying to hide it, either. I'm not gonna lie, it gives me a thrill to flirt. Now, I'm not all brazen or anything, jumping out of cakes or grabbing people or anything. I was very subtle. Little hints, body language, quick meeting of the eyes and away. It's a secret language I was speaking with every available or semi-available guy in the room… and even a couple of the girls. Watching Terran out of the back of my head. Aware of his eyes on me.
I looked good that night, and knew it. I had on this long silverish satin skirt that was slit up the thigh, and a black top that kind of sparkled. I'd even put this shimmery stuff on my cleavage – not glitter, I didn't want to look like a twelve year old – just something to make me glisten a little. Attract the eye.
Terran and I had an arrive-and-split rule at parties, because we both liked to work the room. But the whole way there he could hardly keep his hands off me. He had even wanted to park down the street for a quickie before we came in. My general rule is, it's bound to be better if you make him wait. But I got us both a little worked up in the car when I showed him I didn't have any panties on. He nearly burst his pants when I slid his hand up my thighs to touch me there, naked to the world. I pushed his finger inside so he could tell I was already wet, and then I kissed him deep and jumped out the car.
He likes it when I make him work for it a little.
So I was flirting around, talking about how Christmas makes me hot, nonsense like that. I was being real vocal. I even told this woman in the bathroom, who I didn't even know. I was fixing my eyebrows and she was fixing her wig, and I told her, "All I want for Christmas is to get fucked properly." And then I laughed.
But she didn't get the joke. Just looked at me kind of funny. Says, that's all you want, for real?
She must've been putting sparkle in her wig or something, there was damn glitter flying everywhere. I waved at it in the air like it was dragonflies or dandelion fluff.
What more could I want? I said it again to her, just like that.
And she's waving her arms and this long bunch of peacock feathers around in all the glitter and says "Cynthia, I hereby assign you three sex partners before the peal of the midnight bell. You will experience the fucking of Xmas past, the fucking of Xmas present, and the fucking of Xmas future."
And light was caught all around her in a million points of singing sugar and she wasn't waving her arms anymore. She patted her hair one last time like didn't nothing weird just happen, and solemnly pointed to the mistletoe above the bathroom sink.
This woman grabbed me by the hair and kissed me, openmouthed, assertive, like she meant it. And tasting like silver light and her tongue all honey. It made me forget to ask how she knew my name. When she was done kissing me I wasn't even sure I knew my own name.
I was more than a little bit moist, shall I say, when I left the bathroom, because I truly to love to kiss. Matter of fact, as soon as I realized which way I was facing I turned back to kiss her again some more but she wasn't in there. Don't know where she went so quick.
I spun around a little fast and tried to get my footing. My shoes cost too much for me to play myself falling off of them. I couldn't believe I was all feeble-footed over a glittery kiss from some strange chick in the bathroom. And the thought of fucking three different people tonight… it's not like I thought it was really gonna happen but the idea still made me a little hot.
I made my way through the crowd in the kitchen and out into the courtyard to get some cool air. Danny and Elaine had hung strings of blinking white lights all around the garden walls and hung evergreen wreaths at intervals. Little candles in red and green glass holders burned along the sandy paths. They'd even hung their huge cactus trees with blinking lights. It was very Albuquerque meets Martha Stewart.
I sat down on a wooden bench away from the door and settled back against the cushion. More people would have been out there, I think, if it had been a warmer night. But I was just worked up enough to really appreciate the brisk December breeze. People in New Mexico are so used to baking, it doesn't take much 'weather' to keep folks inside. I loosened my top a little and lifted my hair up to feel the night touching the back of my neck.
Almost immediately, this guy came up and sat beside me. He was heavier than me, built like a high school football player, I mean mostly lean but with a lot of muscle high up on his chest. His voice sounded scratchy and warm at the edges when he asked could he sit, like he smoked a lot of blunts. Already he reminded me of Dante, the first boy I fucked.
Dante was on the football team, and I was a cheerleader. He had been my boyfriend for two years, and had been working hard to get in the pants the whole time. He took every opportunity he could to fondle and titillate me up to a froth. I came countless times on his fingers and even a few times on his tongue until finally, at the prom, I let him go all the way.
Well, for all the work he had put in trying to convince me to fuck him, once we were fucking he didn't do nothing but plow in and out and bang a lot and then stiffen and grab the condom. Sure was a let down. He seemed either incapable or uninterested in giving me pleasure after he had permission to penetrate.
Not only that, but over the next few months before we went away to college on different coasts, Dante developed the creepiest sense of entitlement to my body. Would reach out casually, and grab a tittie like it was his birthright, especially after he'd drunk beer or …
And then I smelled the weed smoke. Right next to me. I looked over with half surprise and half interest on my face and the man next to me on the bench smiled, reached across in an oddly familiar move and fondled my breast! Didn't even stop pulling off his joint!
I jerked back and opened my mouth to holler when he turned his head to me and kissed the smoke into my mouth. Immediately, I was hot syrup between my legs, breathing it in hungry: good 'dro smoke and Dante's breath, just like old times. I filled my lungs up with it and feasted on his tongue, my nails working through his scratchy beard…
"Dante?!" I sat up and looked in the face of this man I was kissing. Was it him? No way it could be. Too many years, too many miles. The face was older, but I could see a lot of places where it was the same as I remembered. He was just looking at me and smiling. "Dante," I said. And there I was, horny all over again, with a man who fucked like walking disappointment. I slumped against his chest.
"No, don't you listen?" rasped Dante's voice above my head, "I'm one of the ghosts assigned to you for tonight. My name's Clarence." I looked up quizzically. I mean, he even smelled like Dante. "You can call me whatever you need to, babe," he said. "I'm just here to deliver the Fucking of Xmas Past."
"Oh, damn, do I have to?" I was asking petulantly, tryin to look cute and squirm my way outta this. Dante was one element of my sexual past I did not get nostalgic for.
"Hey lady, I'm just doin' my job," said Clarence. He mauled my breast just like Dante used to, and dove down to suck hard on my nipple. I rolled my eyes like I used to do back then, before I learned about sovereignty over my own body, and just gritted my teeth for the onslaught.
Then I had to be like, fuck that. Times done changed and I'm a grown-ass woman. I pulled the ghost out of my cleavage by the scruff of his neck and told him Christmas past or no Christmas past, he better get down to the honey pot and make me come. And then he could fuck me smooth and deep, until I came again.
And wouldn't you know it? That little bugger Clarence could lick pussy with the best of them. And with a smile on his face the whole time that made me think maybe that was the plan all along.
I mean, really. Why would a ghost come around to give you a flashback to the suckiest sex of your life? What kind of job would that be? Clarence struck me as a man that's got more joy in his work than that. Only pure joy in one's work could explain Dante's fabulous, limber tongue making me writhe and pant like he never did back then. Clarence was doing things with his mouth that made me stop breathing.
By the time Clarence was flexing Dante's slick, thick dick between the lips of my pussy, I had forgiven that poor chile all the sexual sins of our past. No reason to hold a full-grown man's memory hostage to the fumblings of his sixteen year old self! Aint I myself grown since then? Why, Yes. I'll even answer that question myself. I've grown into far more of a freak.
For illustration of said freak-itude, please refer to exhibit A, me, outside at a Christmas party, with my panties pulled aside and Clarence the ghost fucking me smooth and deep, against the garden wall. I was groaning and grunting because his shaft was just the hottest, hardest thing, reshaping my liquid pussy and I couldn't endure that kind of thing in silence. Could you? Oh I was making so much noise. So much that a few people must have heard me and come to the door.