8> Thursday: Engagement
The night had gone badly.
Understatement, Mouse fumed to herself. Gone badly. The cock sucking bastard. The sister fucking cock sucking bastard.
She stomped through the snow toward her apartment, with Michael carefully staying a single half step behind her, like a giant shadow just over her shoulder. She could feel his discomfort, his tension.
Good, she thought. Bastard. Feel like shit. Feel the way you made me feel, she raged.
The evening had started nicely enough, an engagement party for Michael and Mona, with all of her friends. She gleefully made the rounds through Alicia's apartment. She beamed as she showed them all her ring, one by one, and they oohed and grinned with mostly feigned jealously. Their eyes always went wide when they learned it wasn't a prop, that he had really bought it for her. Then the jealousy became real.
No one voiced it except Alicia, but they were all thinking the same thing. Was it real, not just a real diamond, but maybe even intended to be a real engagement ring? Maybe he was ready to ask for real. Maybe the game wasn't necessary, or it would unexpectedly change from a game to the real thing. There was a buzz throughout the room.
Cock sucking bastard, she thought again, fumbling with her keys in her fury, trying to open the security door.
They had all gotten drunk. They'd all danced. Michael was timid and stiff, of course. He graced her with one dance, then she let him off the hook. After that, Mona only danced with other women, mostly Alicia and Tania. She commanded the dance floor, as she always did, and she could feel every man's eyes on her. It always happened. She made it happen, and she had always loved it. But this time it made her uncomfortable.
She didn't want them to look at her. Only Michael, only he should look. And most of them didn't just look, they blatantly leered, even if they didn't realize it. She usually reveled in that, in stealing other women's men, at least in their fantasies, with her dancing. But not this time. This time her motion, her erotic, luring movements, were all for Michael, all for her brother Michael. She wanted the rest of them to look away.
Jeff spent a lot of time talking to Michael. It started early in the evening. The two of them were almost the same height. Jeff's very dark, black african features contrasted sharply with Michael's pale, bald head. She watched them talking, looking at her, leaning conspiratorially close to each other exchanging comments. She could feel Jeff making lewd suggestions. She could feel it in her blood. She hoped Michael was defending her honor.
And that was a silly thing to think, she thought, raping herself in self punishment. Mouse stormed up the stairwell, distractedly watching the wet prints she left on each stair. She had eschewed the elevator and the need to wait for it with her brother. This was easier on both of them.
Like Michael would defend his incestuous sister slut, she thought as she climbed. Like he would defend her, knowing the way she went around sucking and fucking her brother's cock at every opportunity. Of course he didn't defend her. She was a slut, and he had no room to argue. She had no right to protest. But he still should have defended her. He was her brother, and he should have defended her.
But he didn't. She knew he didn't.
At the end of the last dance Mouse had wandered over to talk to Tania, to pretend to talk to her, but actually to listen in on what Jeff and Michael were saying. Tania did as always with Mona, she moved in close. She immediately brought their bodies and faces close together, as if she had no sense of personal space, or as if they were lovers and their space was supposed to be shared. They joked and laughed, and with each laugh Tania brought a hand up to brush Mona's arm, or to helpfully brush her hair out of her face, or to grab and hold Mona's hand for a tad longer than a brief second. It was admittedly erotic. Mouse often enjoyed their little sport, but not tonight.
"She's a hot little piece," Mona had heard Jeff say. Michael muttered something non-committal.
He could have at least agreed with that, Mouse fumed. She opened her apartment door and threw her coat and bag across the room as hard as she could. If he wouldn't defend her, he could at least boast about her.
"Tania likes her," Jeff had said. Tania had leaned close, as if on cue, to whisper something inane directly into Mouse's ear. Her pretense was the noise of the party, but Mouse had felt her hot breath tickling her earlobe. It felt as if Tania's mouth was just moments from flicking her ear with her tongue. Mona resented it, because it kept her from hearing Jeff and Michael.
"She likes her a lot," Jeff continued. Mouse thought Jeff knew she was listening, that he was saying this partly for her benefit. "Tania thinks she could set her off the same way she hears you do it, through the walls."
Mouse could hear the grin in Jeff's voice. She wanted to slap him. She wished she could turn and see Michael's expression, too. To see if he was angry or jealous or turned on.
"Tania thinks she could make Mona squeal and squirm and beg," Jeff elaborated. "She's sure of it, and she's itching to try."
There was a pause, while Michael considered it. He was considering it. At their engagement party. Mouse felt her anger growing.
"Tell me the truth, man to man," Jeff asked, lowering his voice, but not enough to hide his words from Mouse. "You don't have to, but I have to ask. Has she ever had a black cock? Has she ever admitted that she wanted one?"
He asked the question like everyone knew that the answer was yes. It was always yes. Mouse had heard Michael's hesitation. Don't answer, she'd thought. Don't answer.
"Yes," he answered quietly, at least appearing uncomfortable with the question. "I know she has."
Mouse could almost hear Jeff's eyebrows raise, she could almost hear the blood pounding and filling his cock at the thought. She could hear him already fucking her in his mind, telling her that she loved his big black cock better than Michael's. They were both being bastards.
"You know, you could come over and watch Tania get her going," Jeff said, almost with disinterest, like it was just some polite offer to come over and watch a ball game.
"Once they get far enough along, you could give Tania a try," he continued, his deep voice only a half whisper. "She's a sweet, tight little blonde. She'll give you a taste of what you'd miss if it were a real wedding."
"She is a hot one," Michael had said, this time without any sign of hesitation.
A hot one. The fucking, fucking bastard, Mouse thought. A taste of what he'd miss if he married her. If he really married her. If it were real.
She tore her dress off and left it lying on her bedroom floor. Michael stayed carefully away in the kitchen. She ripped through her drawers to pull out a black dance leotard. She didn't have any clean tights, so she left her legs bare and pulled on knitted leg warmers. They were rainbow colored, a silly pair she'd had since college. They didn't suit her mood, but they did the job. She needed to get out. Now.
"I don't think we know how hot we could get her," Jeff had gone further. "I'll bet if we double teamed her, both at once, with Tania helping too, we could make her scream so loud that everyone in the building would hear her."
Mouse was out of her bedroom already. She pulled on her boots, stuffed some dance slippers into her coat pockets, and was out the door again. Michael followed hastily. She snarled at him to stay away. He still came. She tried to sprint down the stairwell to escape him.
She could remember the first times she had felt jealousy about Michael, even before she knew what it was. In high school, her girlfriends all fawned over him. They all tried to sit next to him. When they came over, they looked about nonchalantly to see if he was around. They thought they were being so subtle, and they weren't. It pissed Mona off then, the way they tried to latch onto him and draw him in with them. She wanted him to stay away, and she wanted them to stay away from her brother. She didn't completely know why. She didn't understand what they saw in him.
He was just her dorky big brother. He was fun to fantasize about, sometimes, for her, but he was a dork. She'd guessed that to them he was cool, a much older guy with a car and an apartment and a job. He represented something none of the guys in high school could match. He was a man, not a boy. A dorky man, to Mona, but a man.