"I wonder if there is any more popcorn?" I asked my friend Sara from the small kitchen in our hotel room.
"Top cabinet, right hand side," she yelled back to me.
Sara and I have been friends for many years, and try to meet once a month for a girls night out, or some type of get together. This month we headed for a weekend in the city to do some Christmas shopping together, and decided to stay in small hotel on the outskirts of town.
"Found it!" I yelled back. Standing in the kitchen, I was thinking to myself how happy I was to be away from home for the weekend and finding time to finally relax. Things had been hectic at work, and I was in the middle of a separation from my husband Tom. After 4 years of a dismal marriage, we had decided to separate with the mutual goal of getting a divorce. There were lots of issues, and sex always seemed to be added to my list of cons. It met my basic needs, but after awhile, I just felt like something was missing and Tom never seemed the least bit interested in perusing making it better. Tom was the only man I had ever been with, so I had no comparisons, unless I considered what I saw in movies and what friends shared with me of their own experiences. AND if these counted, then I knew I was missing something.
"Finally!" Sara said as I handed her the full bowl of hot popcorn.
"Good grief. It takes a few minutes to pop." I chuckled. "What are you watching?" I asked sitting down next to her on the sofa.
"One of your basic porn flicks these hotels have to offer." Sara said.
"Oh good, I am in just the mood to see others enjoying the things I am missing in my life," I told her.
Sara grabbed the control and lowered the volume and turned to me and asked, "Was he that bad in the sack, Liz?"
"Lets just say I with all the batteries I used over the years, I could have lit a small city with them had they been put all together." I said with a small laugh.
Sara grabbed my hand and said, "I am really sorry. No one deserves so much unhappiness."
Sara was such a dear friend, and one who was lucky in love. She and her girlfriend Tammy had been together for about 10 years and were very much in love. Both professional workers, they owned their own home, and were now thinking of adopting a baby together. They truly were the perfect couple, by some peoples standards. I adored them both.
"There’s nothing I can do but try to found happiness elsewhere," I said.
We sat in quiet and watched the movie. Both of us loved watching porn and could always find humor in it. Tonight however all I seemed to see were couples engaging in incredible sex, and wanted desperately to know what that was like. The couple on the screen was involved in the act of oral sex, and it seemed as if he couldn’t get enough of her. He devoured her pussy as if his life depended on it. Tom never made me feel like that. He made me feel as if it was merely one of the steps he did in the whole act of sex. First I kiss her, then I stroke her breasts, eat her a little, and then fuck her. Never missing one of the steps, clicking through the list in his head as the event unfolded. What was it like to be wanted that much? I sat and wondered if Sara and Liz made each other feel that needed. Did they go down on each other with such passion?
"Sara? Can I ask you a question? I asked.
"Sure, what’s up?" she asked.
"Oh nothing, never mind." I now hesitated and thought to myself, what an idiot, you can’t ask that.
"What’s on your mind girl?" she asked.
"Well I kind of feel funny asking, but I really would like to know something." I said
"You know you can ask me anything" Sara said.
"It’s just in watching this movie, I feel as if I have missed out on some pretty incredible oral sex a long the way, and I am wondering if you and Liz. Uh, do you…"
"Eat each other out with that much zest?" Sara quickly helped me out.
"Uh yeah" was all I could mutter. "I know it’s a damn personal question, but watching they way he goes down on her I feel like Tom never had that much interest in me like that. I guess I am just wondering if everyone in the world is having better oral sex.."