Josh and David had been sitting on the couch, chatting in David's living room for a couple of hours now. As David got up to get another couple of beers from the fridge, Josh noticed the slight alcohol flush running through him. He didn't feel drunk, just the warm contentment that came after a few relaxed beers. He took a look around the room he was in, noticing the mismatched furniture. The couch he sat on seemed new, with a modern design, and spacious seating. This contrasted with the worn, old reading chair in the corner, which had clearly been there for some time, a travel magazine draped over its arm. A tattered grey rug partly covered the otherwise bare and scratched floorboards. A new, large screen TV sat on an entertainment unit that was a little too small, with laminate peeling at the corners. Empty picture hooks on the wall completed the look.
"You really ought to get some pictures on the wall, mate." Josh said lightly as David put a cold beer in his hand and sat beside him.
"Yeah," he replied. "That was really Amy's area. She took them all with her when she left, and I haven't gotten around to replacing them yet." He stared at the rug in front of him.
David and Amy had been together since high school. She had left him around 9 months ago, after a fairly rocky relationship over some years, which had been a surprise to him if no one else. Now in his mid-30's, having never really been in the dating game, he was struggling to find a direction.
Josh had seen it all play out in front of him. He and David had been close since high school, and Josh still kept in touch with Amy as well. He'd had his own relationship problems, and had never really stayed with someone for longer than 12 months. With his good looks and cheerful confidence, he never really had trouble finding a date. It just all seemed to get dull within a few months. The sex would become routine too quickly, and he'd find himself turning to porn more and more.
"Aw, you'll pull yourself together." Josh tried to fill the awkward silence that hung between them as David contemplated his situation. "It's pretty natural to feel shit after such a long relationship breaks down. It'll take some time is all. Just need to get back on the horse."
David laughed derisively. "Yeah, well it's been a long time between rides!" he snorted.
"Handsome bloke like you? You must be knocking them back left, right and centre on Tinder! You having any luck?"
"To be honest, not really." David said. "I've never really cracked the online chat thing. Always come off sounding desperate. Probably because I am I guess." He chuckled.
"How long's it been between...rides?" Josh ventured.
"Well, today's Friday...so...about 2 years." David was blushing as he stared furiously at the beer bottle in his hands.
Josh couldn't believe it. "What the fuck? Two years?? Are you serious? What about Amy?"
"Well, we weren't really getting along in that sense for a while. I just wasn't that attracted to her in the end, and I think she felt the same. We never really had that good a sex life anyway. Neither of us had ever been with anyone else, so I guess we never really got to experiment that much. In the end it just petered out."
Josh laughed. "Well I guess that explains your huge right forearm, then!"
David grinned. "Yeah, it gets a decent work out! To be honest, in the end I preferred a good jerk-off session over a fuck anyway. It never quite felt as good, and Amy would pretty much just lie there as I humped away, so it wasn't exactly mind-blowing sex."
"Surely you wouldn't knock back a good blow job though right? I mean no-one's that good at spanking the monkey." Josh couldn't believe what he was hearing. The poor bastard hadn't had a single good fuck in his life.
"I was never really that lucky. Amy didn't really like doing it, so it was a bit of a 'birthdays and anniversary' kind of gig. Then, one time while she was going down on me when both of us were a bit drunk, it sort of snuck up on me and I blew my load in her mouth without warning. She pulled off my cock quick as a flash, me still spurting cum, her gagging and looking horrified. Then she just went pale, and puked all over my junk, right there in the bed." Both of them were laughing now, Josh imagining what it must have looked like.