This story is continued from a previous chapter.
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When I woke up and I was already late for work. But fuck it, I owned the company and it was Friday. The other guys at the office probably got more done without me there anyway. I felt no compulsion to hurry.
I dragged myself into the bathroom. I left the door unlocked as I showered but Ashley didn't let herself in this morning, she was already gone. My girl was gone too; not surprising though as she was rarely still home at this late hour on weekdays. Both the girls waitressed, but Kay had to be in a lot earlier. Although I liked to see one or both of them before heading out to work, I didn't mind having the apartment to myself today.
I still hadn't spoken with Ashley since we'd.....what? Become lovers? Had sex? Hooked up? For some reason my mind needed to classify everything logically. Apparently I'd never properly determined what a single hand job qualified as. I cursed myself for wasting time thinking about it when I still had much more important things to work out.
She was my girlfriend's sister. We lived together. We'd grown closer over the last few years, closer than was appropriate. We took it too far a couple of nights ago after my girlfriend Kay had gone to bed. Ashley had caught me perving out during what was supposed to be a back massage; but instead of freaking out and having me arrested, her reaction was to grab my cock and finish me off on her face.
Wow, it was fantastic but now things were a mess. I'm sure Ashley was terribly upset and she had zero emotional stability to begin with. Who knows what her reaction to this was going to be. She'd probably move out, I'd have to confess to Kay and she'd leave me too.
Kay.
What was I going to do about Kay? Ashley and I knew we had unspoken sexual desires for one another, but they were always just that, unspoken. I'm sure Kay never suspected anything of the sort. While she tolerated and even encouraged our affection for one another, that obviously didn't extend to hand jobs and facials.
We'd breached the trust of one of the most generous people I knew. How could I explain my infidelity and reconcile with my long time girlfriend? I loved Kay. I loved Ash. I loved them both.
It would have been so much better for everyone involved if we'd kept it all proper. Well, that was the voice of morality talking; my libido couldn't have been happier crossing that line. Damn me for allowing sex drive to trump higher reason; I should have been stronger. Prior to all this I had convinced myself I was stronger, but it turns out I was just another degenerate who couldn't keep it in his shorts.
The shower water was running rather cold by this time. I'd lost myself in thought again.
"Go to work, Top" I said aloud referring to myself by nickname.
My parents had named me Topher. I don't know; I guess I didn't think much of the name. It was alright but I far preferred the abbreviated version Top. Not pronounced "Toph", just "Top". Rhymes with mop. It was unusual, but Top had stuck and I'd gone by it since I was a kid. It rolled off my tongue without a thought.
Eventually, I did go to work and I struggled through another day. I got home and discovered Kay had been screwed out of another big money Friday night shift at the restaurant. She was home and her friend Laura was over as well. Normally, three or more of us in the same room early on a Friday evening would have evolved into a night out with the gang at the bars. But tonight I guess no one was motivated enough to pick up the phone and we ended up just hanging on the couch watching some movies.
It got to be about 10 or maybe a bit after, the three of us were still watching the TV when I heard footsteps coming up the stairwell. It sounded like 2 people talking as they ascended. The apartment door opened and now I could definitely tell there were two people coming in. One of them was Ashley and a male voice. They came down the hallway a few steps and appeared together in the entrance to the TV room.
"Hi Ash" Kay greeted her sister.
"Hey there Ashley. I haven't seen you in a while", Laura said excitedly as she ran over for a hug. Laura was Kay's friend, but I guess she knew Ash as well. "Aren't you going to introduce us to your friend?"
"Hi, I'm Dom" the kid said, introducing himself. Dom was a rather tall guy. I usually don't really notice how tall other guys were, but he must have been about 6 foot 3 inches.
"I'm Laura. What are you two up two?" she said in her upbeat, overly happy voice cutting Kay and I off from introducing ourselves. That's just how Laura was, absorbed with herself and what she was doing. She was pretty much oblivious to the slight.
I can't say I mined the inadvertent rudeness, though; it gave me an excuse not to talk to this shit head. I'd seen him before somewhere, I was pretty sure he worked at the restaurant with Ashley. That would make sense, as Ashley would have just gotten off work and had already managed to find a guy to bring home with her.
I had already decided he was a pretty boy gym-rat. He had some sort of European accent and the machismo that he was trying to pull off was downright offensive. We'd never intentionally hang out or find one another amusing in any fashion. This guy was a toad.
But mostly I didn't like him because she was going to let him fuck her.
To be frank, Ashley had been around the block a few times. Hell, I'd watched her go around the block. I would never call her a slut; more like desperate to find someone - and she was always willing to give the next guy a chance to be the one. She'd bring them home and I'd be forced to witness some random loser getting lucky with Ash.
I was always jealous. I did so much for her: I'd shown her a thousand kindnesses, kept her safe from any sort of harm, gave her the male attention she craved. I had basically filled in as her boyfriend between each of her failed attempts at a relationship. More or less, I was her boyfriend when it was convenient. The real travesty was, I never got the sex. I figured it wasn't fair that all these other guys got to nail her and I had to endure.
This time it was different.
I couldn't exactly spell it out to her with words at the moment, especially with my girlfriend Kay right there, but I wasn't about to let Ash be with any other man ever again. The snag was that even if I could have talked to her right then, Ash and I still had this gigantic, unresolved moral dilemma between us. We still hadn't spoken a peep since I came all over her face two nights ago.
This predicament was just so fucked up.