The phone rang just as the porn started.
Lee, about to watch two girls suck some guy's cock, paused the DVD and then answered the phone.
"Lee? It's your mother."
He pinched the bridge of his nose. Any thoughts of watching porn and giving himself a little present disappeared. "Hey, Mom. What's up?"
"Are you still looking for a roommate?"
His roommate had moved out three months ago. His girlfriend left a week later for the former roommate. He made a decent salary as head of night security at the museum, but rent was still tight with his other bills pushing in on his wallet.
"Yeah, yeah. Do you know somebody?" He had no intention of following up with whomever she suggested from her church group of the bingo hall, but he asked anyway.
"Your cousin Angel."
"Angel?" He hadn't seen her since he'd attended the fiftieth wedding anniversary party for her parents last year. They didn't see each other much, but always got along when they did.
"She's starting culinary school there and needs a place to stay."
He groaned. He wanted to start dating again, and having angel as a roommate would make bringing girls back to the apartment awkward at best. He tried to think of a quick way to tell his mother he didn't like the idea, but couldn't think of a way to do it without being a dick.
"Yeah, okay," he said. "Tell her to call me."
"She said she'd stop by tomorrow."
He sighed and looked up to the ceiling. "Even better."
Angel stopped by a little after one o'clock. They spent the first hour catching up and giving each other updates on all the shared relatives. She popped the question once the list of relatives ran out.
"Lee, I can get a part-time job to help pay the rent. I can always find restaurant work."
"I know," he said. "I don't worry about that."
"And I could cook for you. We'd have a lot of left-overs."
"I don't mind if you live with me, Angel," he said. "But what about dating?"
She blinked. "What about it?"
"I plan on starting up again and what if you meet somebody? That might get weird."
"I'll be too busy with school to date," she said. "And I don't care if you bring someone back here. Just give me notice first."
He couldn't think of a way to say no without being a dick. "Okay, roomie. Where's your stuff?"
It worked out better than he expected. Angel got a job in a steak house only three blocks from the apartment. They had different schedules so they didn't get in each other's way much. If she was at school, he was asleep. If she was asleep, he was at work. She left him enough left-over food to feed a platoon.
It changed one night in the fifth month.
He had the night off and she was working at the steak house. He remembered he never finished watching his porn. He'd put it away and forgotten about it until that evening.
The women on screen were linked in a wild muff grind. They rubbed their pussies together on a big Persian rug while Lee sat on the couch and jacked his cock.
"Oh!" Angel said with surprise.
