Cocktail Time with Shirley
When he got back to his bedroom, he found that Shirley was sitting in one of the chairs, still naked. She had placed the other chair in front of hers and gestured to Will to sit there. He legs apart; he had a wonderful view of her pussy. He could see that she was expecting comment, so he said, 'nice view'.
'You like my pussy?' she asked.
'Of course.'
'Because it's a pussy?'
He laughed and said, 'no, because it's very hairy.'
'Most men these days preferred shaved, I think, like Marietta's.'
'I like shaved or very hairy.'
They relaxed into a silence, which Shirley found very comfortable. Will, however, was feeling slightly awkward. He was thinking of what Marietta had said about payment for Shirley. Was she expecting to be paid? Was he going to be expected to pay for whatever they might do next. He wanted to ask her what she wanted, but that would be too gauche.
'I wonder what you're thinking about,' she said.
He hesitated for a moment. She noticed. He said, recovering himself, 'I was wondering what we will do for the rest of the afternoon, and this evening.
She smiled and said, 'well, you don't seem keen for me to leave, and I plan to stick around for a while so, given that we are both sitting here naked, I imagine we will probably have sex again. At some point, we will get hungry, and you will offer to cook a meal for us. And we have plenty to drink. There is still half a bottle of vodka on the kitchen table, I have another bottle in my bag, and I noticed you have plenty of wine, so I think a pleasant evening of good food, lots of vodka and lots of fucking.'
'Perfect,' he said, feeling a little more comfortable.
'But, first, she said. You could pay me for the cleaning I did with Marietta. It's always good to keep business and pleasure apart.'
He went to get his wallet. He gave her the same as he had given Marietta. It was a generous amount. He handed her a roll of notes, and she put them on the bed beside her. She smiled a knowing smile. He knew how the game went.
'Now, for the pleasure,' she said.
'You mean what we all did early was not pleasure?' he joked.
'You paid me, so not entirely, but it was very pleasurable. It's good to be clear about things.'
They sat in silence for a while. Shirley got up. He watched her leave the room. He assumed she had gone to the bathroom. She returned with cigarettes and the half full vodka bottle and two tumblers. She lit a cigarette.
'Do you smoke a lot?' he asked.
'Any smoking is too much smoking, she said, matter of factly. 'About five a day, a little more when I have sex. You?'
'I used to. I quit a few years ago.'
'Are you anti-smoking?'
'It's bad for your health, stale smoke doesn't smell great, but I like watching women smoking. Then, I find smoking very erotic.'
'Smoking fetish,' she said and laughed.
'What's funny?' he asked.
'Oh, here we are, naked, talking about sexual fetishes, after an afternoon threesome. We're doing everything in the wrong order, a day or non-stop sex first and then a dinner date.'
He smiled and said, 'well. Think of it this way. If we still want to see each other and have a dinner date, it must more there is more to this than just sex.'
She gave him a long look and smiled again, 'I'm looking for a boyfriend,' she said.
He was a little taken back, but he liked her directness.
'I didn't know I was looking for a girlfriend, but now you mention it, maybe I am.'
There was a silence. It needed to be filled. 'We'll see what happens,' she said, and if anything does, I won't expect you to give up your thing with Marietta.'
'I'd not thought that far ahead,' he replied.
'Any guy who gets into a relationship with me needs to be pretty open-minded and not the jealous or possessive type. That's why I don't find it easy to meet the right guy.'
'You think I'm the right kind of guy?
'I think maybe you are. You know that if I say you won't need to give up Marietta if we were to start dating, I'll expect you to give me the same freedom. I don't date more than one man at a time, but I have other things going on. You know how the Filipinas are. Always other things going on.'
'It's ok.'
'Thanks,' she said.
He thought of what Marietta had told him about herself, and he assumed that Shirley's story would be similar. He decided to ask her only one question. The rest he would learn as they went along. And if she was doing the same things as Marietta, he would like it, as he liked knowing what Marietta did. It excited him. He would not tell her that yet.
'Can I ask one question?
'Yes,' she said, only a little tentatively.
'Are you married?'
'No,' she replied, 'I never have been. You know Marietta is, I imagine.'
'Yes, she told me'.
'Do you have a girlfriend now?'
'There was a woman I had a casual thing with but that seemed to fade away. I haven't seen her for three or four months. The only woman I have been having sex with since then is Marietta, and now you.'
'And you want to have a girlfriend now,' she said and gave him a gentle stare.
'Well, Marietta is not a girlfriend. I don't know if there is a name for what I have with her, and having that with her does not mean I can't have a girlfriend, and if the girlfriend knows about her and is fine with it, I don't have to sneak around and deceive anyone.
'I tick that box,' she said and laughed.
I know you do. That's why I said it.'
'Would it have been a problem if I was married?'
'Not a problem, but complicated. Marietta is not a relationship, so it doesn't matter if she's married. And she has an arrangement with her husband. However, a relationship with a married woman would involve complications and could get messy. There are feelings, attachments. In the kind of thing I have with Marietta, they can't exist. I once used the term 'erotic friendship' to differentiate what I do with Marietta from a relationship. She approved of the term. I got the idea from a novel by Milan Kundera.'
'Do you want to have a relationship with me?
'You want me as your boyfriend?'