The Feel
As he sat is his small bedroom within his shared apartment a mile from the university commons his mind brooked no circumstance against the blight of his study. Neck deep in the triangulations of calculated arithmetic and geometric designs he did not notice the entry of his roommate, and most of the time best friend and oddly named, Pieces. The young man was barely holding his feet as he nimbly hopped back and forth on his feet like he had to go to the bathroom.
"Glen." What was that, Glen thought. Was that my name? "Glen." It came more urgently this time.
Glen felt that something was probably trying to interrupt his self-induced study time and force a reentry of his brain into the modicum of true time and space so he looked up. Pieces was there and he inwardly groaned. The young man of twenty-two years was jumping like a little girl in the doll aisle and waving his arms in a 'come hither' gesture with his face ablaze in smile. Glen shook his head, dropped his pen and gave Pieces his full attention. That was all you could give the young man as his annoyance level would grow with every moment you weren't involved in whatever he was trying to tell you.
"What's up?," Glen asked, a little indignantly.
"Dude, I need you - now," came the reply. Pieces' eyes were afire and his mouth was almost agape in the burning smile. That smile, though, gave one the feeling that whatever it was someone was probably going to be arrested or thrown burning into a pool four stories below his present level, even if he was only two stories high.
"Why? I'm busy trying to get this done." Pieces never seemed to have to study, Glen thought. Why is that? Or is it because his family's filthy rich and pays for his grades? Either way it wasn't fair. "I've got to have this done by tomorrow or I'm toast."
Pieces had no sympathy. "Your special powers are
really
needed right now, man. I've got eight girls in the living room that want to
feel
it."
"I already told you," Glen started, "that I'm not doing that for you anymore. Don't you remember what happened with the dean's daughter, you dick? Everything would've been fine but you can't keep your mouth shut and I almost got my ass kicked by the entire football team defending you!"
Pieces looked at Glen incredulously. "What? It wasn't the entire football team. Only the offensive line and you can't count that because I had to prove the bet." Glen was looking at his friend's face as Pieces said this and all he could see was an honest, if misplaced, innocence as if Pieces truly believed that his duplicity in the act was good for the stature of honor and good will's pride was still shielded. What a jerk. Why did his supposed friend do this to him? Whatever.
Glen looked at Pieces with all the seriousness he could muster, his eyes alight in a semi-serious fury and said, "Understand that this is the last time." Glen's left hand made swiping gesture as if he were cutting off someone's head or giving the signal to. "THE VERY LAST TIME! Do you get me?" His right hand index finger was pointing at Pieces and his face was not losing its tenor with the serious stare.
Pieces fell back a step, almost aghast and certainly offended with a feign, his hands were waving in front of him in supplication and his head nodding in agreement. Though, with reality playing in spades and the truth marveling at an eerie oddness they both knew it wouldn't be the last time. "Come on," Pieces said with a smirk.
Glen slowly got up from behind his desk and walked out into the living room with his roommate. Around the room lay a U-shape of sofa, two easy chairs and a smallish Not-A-Love Seat (what male roommates, beyond the wonder of a gay couple, is going to have a love seat?) and a coffee table. Breaking the U opposite the sofa and over the table was a sixty inch wide screen with all of the wonder of surround sound, every game console currently used by humanity and a small but heavy duty refrigerator filled with the essentials gaming drink. While the boys called the area the "U" everyone else argued it was a rectangle.
Seated around the room were the eight young women that Pieces said were there. Girls of several ethnic flavors, eight different shades of hair through the blond, brunette, redhead and black color schemes. They were all beautiful and they were all blindfolded. The levels of dress ranged from low-cut tanks and even lower cut shorts to micro-skirts and tees that were near see-through. The blind folds were all black and all the ladies sat calmly with their hands folded in their laps. Glen scoffed at the ability his friend had for bringing the most beautiful young ladies of the college or the nearby main city thoroughfare into his house and squirming himself between their legs. If charisma was named for a human it would be Pieces. Or, more accurately, Carsten Brigaines the Ninth.
Glen looked at Pieces and saw a mischievous grin across his face. His friend knew some awesome fun was going to be had. Of course it was at the expense of Glen, though.
"Alright ladies," Pieces said softly, "I need you all to stand up - be careful now - and reach out with your hands and find the hand next to yours and grab a hold." While he spoke these instructions Pieces was moving to a spot between two of the ladies so he could take their hands in his. At the same time Glen was moving to the equal spot between the ladies opposite of Pieces. When the young men were placed they each had four young women between each hand - Glen's right hand, four ladies, Pieces' left hand, Pieces' right hand, four ladies, Glen's left hand.