The two of them lay in bed close together, idly sucking face and fondling, not much more than that. She turned her head to look at the clock on the bedside table; it read 5:37 p.m.
She thought she should be concerned, but couldn’t remember why.
Who cares, he said, with a faraway, dreamy look in his eyes. “I just want to hang on to you, have you forever and ever.â€
Some sort of change had happened to him the past hour.
“Have you ever tried anything kinky?†she asked.
Uh, no, he said. “I don’t do kinky--no way in Hell.
“I don’t relish the idea of ending up in the emergency room with a hamster up inside me, or with my fist trapped inside of you. And leather, chains, handcuffs, whips, leashes, collars, lace pantyhose, garters, those vibrating sticks, are silly; I won’t have them.
“What’s naturally on a person is enough to play with, without resorting to toys and gadgets and games to get all excited.
“There’s nothing more of a turn-on than a good totally naked body.â€
“Well, I’m ready to get
totally naked for you any time,†she said. “All you have to do is pull off my panties and, well, there I am.â€
He didn’t hear her, instead continuing his own stream of thought. “For example, madam, a good
derriere on a woman--no sagging, no creases, not overly large--small and tight--is a big turn-on. I’ve never been sure what one does with it, but I sure like looking at it. And looking and looking and looking.â€
And then he returned to her question. “Sometimes, madam, I think that ‘kinky’ is a clue of a depraved mind, for example women who fantasize about hopping around the sack with an amputee. There’s a certain sort of person--both male and female--who get turned on by certain bodily deformities.
“I have a friend, for example, who was born without ears. ‘Microtia;’ his mother was a nurse, and when she was pregnant with him, one day she grabbed a bar of soap--nurses after all have to keep their hands clean--that had a chemical, Accutane, in it. Just one thirty-second exposure was all it took, and she, who’d always had well-formed infants, some months later delivered one absent ears on both sides of his head.
“Much to my--uh, his, disconcertment, when he was a teenager, he found that there’s some women--fortunately, not many--that get turned on by playing around with freaks.
“Why, I, er, he, couldn’t figure out; after all, it’s a dreadful deformity, it’s a horrible thing.
“Like child molesters, people who get turned on by things like this should be taken out and shot; they’re vile, disgusting, depraved people, and don’t belong in the human race.â€
He reached over her to the bedside table, in which the drawer had three or four little metallic-like packages, and grabbed one.
Getting up on his knees in between her legs, he donned what he’d taken out of the little package, and tugging off her panties, he said, “Okay, madam,
now I’m going to come in--â€
At which same moment suddenly came into the bedroom two figures.
He started, and as in the case of past intrusions, he rolled off the bed landing on the floor in a sitting position, and then leaped up on his feet to confront. On his way to an upright position, he grabbed the edge of the blanket, tossing it to cover her.
It was the neighbor and the automobile mechanic from town.
He kept his composure; it wasn’t the first time he’d been caught
in flagrante delicto; he never liked it, but at least he was used to it.
to be concluded