Spazz had been up two days trying to debug the fucking server. He finally noticed that one of the include files had not been updated and recompiled.
"Three in the fucking morning and not a Starbucks in sight. Jesus, I hate this goddamned job." Spazz fumed as he left the building.
He walked past the noisy hookers on Hollywood Boulevard and let the quiet hum of the escalators take him into the lair of the new subway station. They'd almost destroyed half of glitter gulch building this thing and now there was a giant tunnel underground sitting on God knows how many fault lines. "Yeah, that's a good idea."
The spanky clean, post-modern station was dead empty, not another soul on the platform. Spazz waited for the rush of wind that would tell him he could get on board and sleep. He watched. He wavered. He closed his eyes. There it is, the little breeze…
PSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSH! The Red Line flew into the station, braking to a slow stop. Spazz was at the door when the hydraulics let go. He stepped in the car, took two steps to the left and lay down across three seats. He let his head loll back as the momentum built. Clack-click, clack-clack, clack-click! Faster and faster the train hummed into the dark tunnel, flying along the tracks, taking him to his little apartment in West LA.
He shifted on the seats, trying to get comfortable and half-lidded his eyes so he wouldn't tumble into the aisle. That's when he noticed her.
Platinum hair, short, thin, but pretty in a tight, white top and short, silk skirt. She watched him with one eye, exhaling the rest of her menthol cigarette out of the side of her mouth.
"Workin' late?"
Did she say that or…? "Yeah, forty-eight hours."
He tried to look disinterested, but there it was, dim and flickering, the flame of his ardor burned. Why for this woman? Why now? "Ah fuck, there's no reasoning with your dick", thought Spazz.
"Man, that's a long shift. Who you work for?" She puffed on her cigarette again, the cloud hanging between them.
Spazz laughed. "Fuckin' dot com motherfuckers…bought a bunch a new servers and none of the software was compatible. Idiots!"
She smiled. Her lips curved into a red chili pepper, shining in the industrial lighting. Spazz liked her face.
"I don't know nothing 'bout all that Internet shit. An' glad I don't. Sounds much too complicated." Her foot started to dance at the end of her leg.
He sat up and crossed his arms, getting comfortable. "Why're you…what're you doin'…?" He yawned and couldn't finish.
"Rave. I'm a DJ…do mixes and shit."
"Really? That sounds cool."
"Pays the bills." She tossed her hair back and took another drag.
"Know what you mean. I feel the same way about my job." He watched her foot dance.
"So, what now?"
"Now? Bed, sleep, get up and do it again." He smiled wryly, hoping she'd smile back, "How 'bout you?"
"The same, I guess. 'Get tired of it, though."
"How do you mean?"
"No adventure. No excitement. Same ol', same ol' day after day. Work, sleep, work, sleep. It's fucked." She tapped out her cigarette.
The metro squeaked and cushioned to a stop in the blue glow of the station. She stood up and stretched. Her breasts slid along under the top as her flat tummy slid into view. "Nice", he thought. No one got on. The train accelerated. She grabbed the pole by him and swung into the next seat.
"Don't you think it's fucked?" She looked him in the eyes.
"What?" He wanted to ask her what she was doing, but it didn't come out.
"The routine, dullsville, doin' the same shit day in, day out."
"Yeah, I guess. I sure hate my damn job."
"And?" She raised her hands.
"And? And what? What do I do about it?"
She shook all that curly hair, grinning out of the side of her mouth.
Spazz laughed. He never did shit about it. He just let days, weeks…hell, months go by and never did crap about it.
She laughed along with him.
"I complain. I never tell my boss anything, but I bitch to everyone else. That's what I do." He glanced down at her long legs, sticking out of her skirt. He could feel the movement, the skin of his cock sliding along his boxers. He moved his knees together to allow more room.
"But if you didn't care, what would you do? If you were your own boss, what would you do?" She leaned back against the side of the car, looking into his eyes.
Spazz gave her the once over and pondered. "Hell, I don't know. Maybe start my own business…"
"No, no, no. What would you do for adventure…to liven up your life? Ever thought about that?"
Her hands rested in her lap, pushing the skirt down between her thighs. Spazz could see the hard little nubs of her nipples bouncing against the silk fabric of her top. He licked his lips, his mouth suddenly dry.
"Travel, I guess…"
"Takes time. How about just everyday?"
"Go, uh, see a movie. Fuck, I don't know. What do you do?"
She grinned and half-lidded her eyes. A low chuckled lingered in her throat.
Spazz felt the hair stand up on the back of his neck.
"I like to find attractive men and show them my pussy." Her knees squeezed together.
His lips clung to each other as his mouth dropped slowly open.
She laughed. "You should see your face."
Embarrassed, he put his hand on his head and looked down at the stained carpet. "Oh, you're fuckin' with me. Jesus."
"No, I never fuck around when it comes to my pussy."
He looked back up at her. Her eyes never left his as she raised her skirt up to her chest.
Spazz kept looking at her eyes, afraid to look at what he wanted to see.
"It's okay," she whispered, "I want you to."
As he lowered his eyes, her legs spread wide before him. Her flat tummy ended in a rounded little island with a perfect pink slit smiling sideways at him; bare, but for a small tuft of fur at the top. The orchid-shaped labia glistened as the lights of the tunnel flew by outside. Her scent wafted in his nostrils. It took only a few seconds, but Spazz had a permanent impression of what this woman looked like from mid-thigh to belly button.
He exhaled slowly, whispering. "Oh my God."
"Good, I didn't think you were gay."
Spazz glanced up.
"I saw you checking me out earlier, but now I know for sure."
He looked back down and licked his lips.
"What do you think? Excited?"
Spazz's cock strained against his jeans, rubbing the head brutally against the fabric. "Yeah, you…your…uhm…"
"My pussy?"