Introduction
Walking around the city of New York can be like standing at the buffet table of a very fine and eclectic restaurant. The people come from every, possible end of the world. The woman are not only diverse in skin color, facial features, body type and behavior, but they're also dressed with an elevated sense of style that ranges from classy to slutty to 'hood' to androgynous (if that's your kind of thing). If you find yourself in a horny type of mood, it could almost be torturous and distressing, for, unlike a buffet, you can't scoop whatever you want onto your plate and pay $12.99. Surely, if it was that easy to find a woman in New York, Nathaniel would have saved a lot of time on lonely nights pining for answers, cursing his more promiscuous friends.
It's not that Nat hadn't had any experience with the ladies. He was actually one of the first of his high school friends to have sex. It happened while he was abroad on a youth trip. The memory is burned into his hormonal veins, how he and the girl escaped up to the rooftop together and she shoved her hand down the elastic waistband of his shorts to grab his raging teenage hard-on.
Nothing has come close to that unique feeling of exhilaration. Though, since then, he has had his fair share of girlfriends, one night stands, and rejections. He's definitely been deeply in love before and he understands, for the most part, how to treat a girl with respect and listen and whatnot. But at the end of the day, given this generation's ridiculous exposure to the porn universe and the new social climate of "the aughts," in regards to sexuality in the media, sexual promiscuity and women's openness with revealing skin in public, Nat found himself highly dissatisfied with the amount of 'ass' he was getting and he felt powerless to change that. Sometimes he tried to be patient and hopeful; sometimes he prayed for a better situation, and other times he just threw in the towel, turned on the old Macbook Pro and started opening tabs.
Nathaniel was pretty open to many 'categories' of porn, be it step-mom, anal, gangbang, ebony, hentai, whatever. (He didn't get into the major kink stuff like bondage or pissing, etc). He did mostly try to refrain from masturbating, as much as possible. He played a game with himself to see how much mojo he could build up, believing that he would somehow produce some magical pheromone that would increase his chances of romantic encounters. But, it rarely worked so he'd end up jerking his cock alone and spewing a massive pent-up load all over his hands and belly. The city was filled with an endless supply of pussy and there
he
was, fucking his hand...
At the end of the day, everyone's life is different, with advantages and disadvantages showing up, often, in some kind of relative balance. Nathaniel felt he was no more special or entitled than the next kid and he tried to accept things, how they were. But secretly, he believed there could be another way.
PART ONE
One
Nathaniel worked in an up-and-coming part of Brooklyn as a graphic designer for a corporate firm specializing in the Korean and Japanese markets. Earlier in his life he had many related interests. He was a exceptional illustrator, he had made over 30 short films which he directed and edited himself. In college he studied philosophy and ethics with a minor in urban studies. He had wanted to be a professor, perhaps, if the visual arts didn't work out, but the graphic design route was just less pressure, decent pay and it didn't usually require him to take his work home with him.
Today Nathaniel was presenting some artwork to one of their more esteemed Japanese clients. Everything was pretty routine and he knew the work would be approved as long as he performed his pitch well. He was doing his usual prep when he was startled by his co-worker, Jennifer.
"Are you good?" she asked. She was a very high-strung person and a little bitchy. She and Nat had had some pleasant lunches together and been out for a drink with the other guys from the office, but nothing more serious. She was hard to read because she was so anxious and also kind of dry and short with people. Nathaniel liked her, though. She had a kind of Marissa Tomei look, but with longer, parsed hair and long, muscular legs. She usually wore the standard short business suit, but she would button down the blouse a little and you could see she had a very nice rack. Something about her being on-edge gave her this kind of sexual energy that Nat had always wondered about.
"I'm good," said Nat. "The last job we did for themβthe meeting was over in like half an hour and this job is half the size."
"You have a stain on your tie," said Jennifer. Nat winced at her. She was half-being playful, half-serious. "This is barely noticeable!"
"Fine. Whatever. I just don't want us getting fucked on this."
Nat watched her tight, bulbous ass jutting out of her charcoal skirt as she scurried off. He thought to himself whimsically, "no, you'd be getting fucked on my kitchen table, instead...".
The presentation went fine, as expected. The clients all approved of the campaign. Nat's boss was pleased. But there was one peculiar thing. The director of their team had brought a teenage girl with them. She was pretty, but extremely serious, even somber. She wore a black pants suit and a black tie. Her hair was jet black and perfectly straight and she carried a beautiful, olive green, leather briefcase.
As the meeting adjourned and the men began to gather their things, Nat's boss pulled him aside.
"Nathaniel, great job on this artwork."
Nathaniel thanked him, but could sense there was something else on his mind.