Bayview is a college town. We have the State University on the east side of town. Within a mile radius there are also a couple of private institutions - a technical school and an art college - maybe a couple other little schools that I'm not remembering. College kids seem to run on caffeine these days. So, we also have a handful of espresso bars. I frequent Cafe Napoli because it's not part of a national chain and the coffee is good.
My name is Bill. I guess I'm pretty lucky. An elderly relative left me the small Bayview house I live in, when I was thirty-two. That was in 1990. The house is not big, but it's big enough for me and it came to me without a mortgage. That means I need to make enough money to keep the place up, pay the taxes and utilities, feed myself and pay for any transportation I may require. It also means that I don't have to keep a 9-to-5 job. I do some freelance writing. I help out some of my friends who have their own studios or businesses when they need an extra hand on the job or in the office. I occasionally take a temporary position when I need extra money. But, I have lots of leisurely afternoons when I haven't much to do except go for a cappuccino, read at a table and maybe chat with the other patrons at the Napoli.
Bayview doesn't have a daily newspaper. Bayview people who need real news subscribe to the paper from across the Bay. We do have the Bayview Free Press - the Freep - though. It's a weekly and true to its name it's free. It usually features one big exposΓ© of local interest each week. The rest of the paper is reviews, a couple of syndicated columns, a lot of local advertising, plus a big classified section with, among other things, titillating personals and ads for escorts and phone sex providers. It's not journalism, but it's entertaining.
One January day, I was seated at a table at the Napoli reading the Freep, when young Megan Clark came in. Megan is a nice, friendly twenty-six year old. I met her at the Napoli one day the preceding summer when she wanted to pet the little wire-haired terrier that I was dog-sitting for a friend. When I first met her, I tried to flirt with her, but she didn't seem too interested in an old guy like me. So, after a while, I mostly let the flirting go and exchanged pleasantries with her when I saw her. We sometimes ended up chatting at adjacent tables. By and by, I noticed that she had started coming around the Napoli with a young guy about her age whom she called, Jason. That solved the mystery of her not flirting with me.
Megan is a pretty young lady about 5 foot 5 inches tall. She has shoulder-length curly brown hair and sparkling blue eyes. She has a firm full bosom, curvy hips and round bottom. You wouldn't call her overweight, but you might think her built more for comfort than speed. So, you can't really blame me for trying to flirt with her. A man just can't help himself. Megan returned to school after some time in the workforce so, at twenty-six, she's still working on a degree in Design at the university.
Anyway, I was reading the Freep - Wendy Wild's syndicated Sex and Relationships column - when Megan came toward my table with her coffee. She sat down at the table next to mine. Noticing my reading, she said, "I think I may write Wendy a letter myself."
"No, really?" I said. "What's the matter? I was sure you and Jason had a great relationship."
"I'm not sure if it's him or me," she replied.
"Well, I'm not one to pry," said I.
"Oh, I'll tell you," she said. "You tell me whether I'm being too sensitive or if he is just an ass."
Taking a big sip of her latte, and lowering her voice to a conspiratorial tone, she launched into her story. She had been making love to handsome, young Jason a day or two before. Apparently, they were at it for a while and tried a few different positions and techniques. Megan had been pretty happy with the whole bout. When they were done, basking in the afterglow, cuddling and comparing notes about the sex, she asked Jason, "What did you think about when I went down on you?"
He had responded, "It was fine."
Thinking he sounded a little unenthusiastic, she pressed him, "What do you mean fine? Wasn't it as good a cock-sucking as you've ever had?"
Then Jason had apparently responded, "Actually, I think that Juliet Massa gives the best blow jobs in the United States."
Obviously, in a moment of guileless bluntness, Jason had placed his foot squarely in his own mouth. Somehow, I felt I knew what to say.
"It's not you, Megan. It's Jason. He's an ass."
"Yeah," she responded, "can you believe the gall of that guy throwing Juliet Massa in my face, just ten minutes after I pulled his cock out of my throat and fucked his brains out."
"No, that's just awful," I said. "Who is Juliet Massa, anyway?"
"I don't know. Some tramp he slept with when he was in school in Colorado."
"Mmm-hmmm," I sympathized, silently noting Juliet's name on the off chance that I might meet her someday. "I wonder what Wendy Wild would tell you."
"I can't begin to guess," she replied.
"Oh, well, I can begin to guess," I ventured. "She'd tell you that you didn't say if you made him orgasm when you were giving him oral attention. Did you?"
"No."
"And she'd wonder whether you ever made him orgasm with oral. Did you?"
"Well, no."
"Any reason why not?" I asked.
"I don't know. I guess a blowjob is more just foreplay to me. I like to suck my man good and stiff and then get on and ride him to the finish, I guess."
"Then, Wendy Wild might just tell you to brush up on your oral skills, if you don't want to run in second place behind Juliet Massa in the blowjob event. You know what? In my experience, 95 percent of the practicing heterosexual women in Bayview, and the other places I've been, for that matter, will take a guy's penis in their mouths and kiss, lick and suck it to get him hot. About 5 percent of them will sometimes kiss, lick and suck it until the guy comes. I'm not entirely sure why that is. But I'll bet Juliet is one of those five per centers. And, it sounds like you're just not."