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Narrator :
Modern media portrays ghosts as vengeful and restless spirits of hatred or loving guardians of survivors. But isn't it possible that any sufficiently strong emotion might be prevent a spirit from departing this world?
Enter Andy Connor and Simone Adair. A couple in name only, who have a relationship that is at once disposable and eternal. A relationship that may not be the most difficult part of their story to explain but will certainly draw them both into...the Erogenous Zone.
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I hate funerals. I don't really mind dead bodies or paying last respects, but I never really know what to say to everyone else.
"How did you know Simone?" I can't really reply that we were once a month fuckbuddies, can I?
"Were you two close?" Geez. I knew exactly how to tease her clit to make her cum hardest, but had no idea what her favorite movie was.
"What's the nicest thing she ever said to you?" For Real? How about 'You get the best hard-ons after I lick your ass'? I thought that was pretty nice, but again not really what I expect people will want to hear.
Her mother asked me what I remember most about her. I said "She had such a caring spirit". By now you know that's probably not an honest answer.
People should be allowed to remember their dead in any way they like. Who am I to impose my memories of Simone on everyone else? I doubt very much that most people knew the Simone that I knew...and likewise I doubt I knew her like they did.
I stood in the short line to view the casket and see her one last time, wrapping myself in a cloak of seeming-bereavement more so people would let me be than any real sense of loss.
Staring at her...at her body. I can't convert to calling it a corpse. How often did I feel those breasts so warm and firmly soft? Cover that neck with passion? I remember that mouth, now sewn shut, and the auditory excitement her voice would evoke. Even now the memory of her is turning me on. Christ, I'm getting horny just looking at her...body...corpse...corpsebody.
Her eyes! A brilliant green that's mirrored by the eyeshadow she's wearing now. I once made her look me in the eyes as I made her orgasm. If ever I could see a vision of an angel coming that was it, so deeply did I see her.
And I had no idea if she'd had brothers or sisters...until just today.
I rise from kneeling and have a brief moment of light headedness. My eyes swim blurrily and I have a dreamlike moment. You know in a dream two things that are opposite can exist in the same space? A door can be open but closed? In that moment her eyes were forever closed, but she winked at me.
I shook my head to clear it and found a seat toward the back of the room to await the start of the remembrance ceremony.
The room was crowded. Simone was popular and her death at a young age drew "tragedy" worshippers by the dozens. A series of people stood at the podium and put forth their visions of Simone and her life.
My own eulogy for her...should I have wished to do so...would sound something like this:
"Simone and I had a date once. Just once. As dates go it wasn't anything special. Certainly not my best effort. We didn't connect on many things and we never seemed to "click". Despite that, and according to some mystic formula that only women understand, we slept together anyway. Apparently we saved up all our chemistry for this.
After that, on the third Friday of every month at exactly 8pm, Simone would knock on my door. She never called...we never planned in advance...never talked or texted...but I'd open the door and she'd stun me with a frenzy of passion...frantically kissing and undressing and before I knew it we were madly fucking. On the floor, against the door, even out in the hallway once. Every time it was a totally uninhibited sexual assault.
We'd spend the next 36 hours in a constant state of eroticism. Even when we weren't physically having sex, we were dancing on the borders of it. Touching, playing, teasing...connected. We never left my apartment, never even got dressed. We wowed our share of pizza delivery guys for certain!
We'd fuck for hours. We'd sleep only when we couldn't fuck anymore. Then she'd wake me up with her mouth on my cock or her tongue on my anus and we'd fuck again.
At 8am Sunday morning she would get dressed...by then I'd gotten so used to her nudity that seeing her slowly cover her body would inevitably make me hard. She'd walk to me, pull me close by my cock and grab my eyes with her greengreengreen beauties. She'd give me one chaste kiss and walk away...trailing her hand on my cock behind her so her last touch was a finger on the very tip.
Then silence until the next third Friday of the month. That's the Simone that I knew."
Of course, I'd probably have to word-smith that a little...get it down to under two minutes. Don't want to be the guy who drones on too long like this guy right now.
To this day I don't understand her. Maybe we're not supposed to understand some things. I will miss her though...I mean, the sex was Oh My God amazing, but she filled up another need too...something I'm not ready to examine in myself yet. Something primal and dark and...
I really feel a sense of Loss. Maybe for the first time I think she's REALLY gone. I'm hurt.
Then in the middle of that pain, I feel a slight tickle on my anus. A creepy feeling like a bug crawling. I clench up to make it go away but it won't. It's a little stronger now...less like a bug and more like a fingertip. I shift uncomfortably...what the heck?
It's getting warmer...wetter...I jump up and look at the seat. Dozens of pairs of eyes on me as I head for the the back of the chapel. As soon as the door closes I reach for my ass. The feeling has stopped...I don't feel anything with my hand. No wetness...no object or bug or whatever. Nothing.
My hands are shaking. I don't want to say it, but I have to admit it felt just like Her tongue. Wishful thinking? Suppressed memory? Psychotic break? Wait...you were having a real moment of grief and then it happened...probably just that. Grief. Calm the breathing.
Back to my seat...but there's now a girl sitting next to it. I nod as I sit down and she smiles slightly back. She's cute...youngish...close to my age I'd guess.
"Are you Andy?" She whispers.
I know I've never met her before, still I whisper back "Have we met?"
"Not in person. I'm Darcy...but it might mean more if I tell you I'm the first Friday of every month."
I can't hide my shock.
Darcy and I sit in silence for the rest of the ceremony. We leave in silence together. Back out in the sunshine of the August afternoon I simply ask "Lunch?"
"A drink?"
"Better. Shades of Green?"
"Appropriate."
Just a few blocks away is a neighborhood bar called Shades of Green. It's Irish, but Simone's eyes...well, you get it.
Once settled, drinks in hand I started. "You seem to know about me, but She never mentioned you."
"I know. I don't think she ever meant to, but she used your name once...in the heat of the moment. Her 'punishment' was that she had to tell me something about you and her."
"Clever. I was never able to get Her to tell me personal stuff by any means. I once tied Her to the bed and teased for 6 hours orgasm-deprived to try and find out what She did for a living. Unsuccessfully."
"Yeah," she chuckled "that's Simone. Private like you wouldn't believe. So she'd spend the whole third weekend with you?"
"Yeah. In my apartment for 36 hours exactly. 8pm Friday to 8am Sunday. You?"
"Same. Drinking, getting high, fucking. God I miss her already. For two people who were so intimate, I really knew so little about her."
"Same. How did you deal with it?" I asked.
"Told myself that it was just fun...just playing around. That I didn't need to be with her. That it was just sex. Amazing, mind-blowing sex, but just sex. How could I feel more? I didn't know anything else about her. How about you?"
"I didn't. Deal with it. I loved Her, I think I loved Her, but I knew if I told Her that she'd probably never come back so I took what I could get and tried to be happy with it. Didn't work, except for 36 hours month. Then I was alive."
She nodded her head in silence. I didn't expect her to say anything. When she did break the silence it was to exercise her own form of escape..."Excuse me...I'll be right back."
It's funny...We're starting off a lot like I did with Simone. We don't have much in common, but there is something there. Darcy and I have a very specific experience that nobody else in the world shares...and I found myself thinking that if Darcy needed consolation (and if she goes both ways) maybe we could spend some time together...maybe we could spend 36 hours drinking, getting high and...