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| I'm not saying this night was about love, oh wait, maybe I am. Not about couple-love, that still feels a million miles away, but the love of bodies, of luck, of my neighborhood, of the rhythm of Amy Sherman-Palladino's writing. It was a night about the love of LIFE, and I'm so glad I indulged in it. Gold stars all around. |
As we
kissed on Gilmore Guy’s couch, the magic of desire took me over like a fluffy
pink cloud. The comfort and pleasure of him was making me feel woozily
submissive. (In my favorite book-I-didn’t-finish-because-it’s-too-triggering, The Body Keeps the Score, I learned that
the impulse that makes us freeze when we’re scared is the same as the one that
holds us still so we can bond with someone. This is my favorite
romantic-but-horrifying brain fact!)
Rather
than totally succumb to the blissful frozenness, I remembered that he’d said
he’d like to try a little submissiveness himself. I took a deep breath, grabbed
him by the shoulders, and shoved him away from me, back against the couch. I
straddled him (aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh like a horny homecoming) and immediately
felt a Wonder Woman jolt of confidence. He tried to put his arms around me, but
I pressed them back, held his wrists as tightly as I reasonably could with
someone I JUST met.
“How
does that feel?” I gently growled into his ear.
“Good.”
He gasped, “It feels good.”
I reached to the nape of his neck and pulled his hair.
I was worried it might be too much, and it was.
“Don’t
pull my hair,” he said a little reticently, and I let go.
“Okay,
thanks for telling me. Do you feel okay?”
“I’m
okay. Just…don’t pull my hair.”
“Okay.
Meanwhile, you are freeeee to pull mine!” I said, placing his hand in the right
spot.
Oh my
GOODNESS I needed my hair pulled! It’s always such a relief. I arched my back,
squirmed in his lap, and moaned, semi-realizing that I was giving the revelers
downstairs on the sidewalk and earful. I hoped nobody I worked for was down
there. Downside to geographic desirability, I guess. Totes worth it.
He
helpfully noted that the futon perpendicular to the couch was easy to fold out,
and I was all “Yes please!”
I was
in such a happy haze (I feel like I should assure you that I only had half a
drink, this haze was pure hormones) that I don’t really remember how my pajamas
and sort-of-pretty underthings got strewn about the floor and coffee table. He
took a moment to catch up with me in the nakedness department. Is there
anything happier than meeting a new penis? This was a GOOD one, big and ready
and delicious-looking.
But
no time for that yet, because his eager talented face was already between my
thighs. I came easily and repeatedly, in giggling jolts until I pushed him away
by the forehead.
When
it was my turn, though, I felt stunned with self-consciousness. It had been
almost a year since I’d had a dick in my mouth (Season Two of Stranger Things
with The Socialist—ah, fall.) and I suddenly felt like I’d written exactly NO
paragraphs about blow jobs. It felt too big to manage, I was paranoid about teeth,
I couldn’t get my head at the right angle
No
matter about my precarious blow-jobbing, he pulled me into a kiss, and our
bodies wrapped back up into a snuggle. He ran his hand over my ass and I said “You
know you want to smack it!” So he did, hooray!
The
intercourse part just…sigh…fit. It
was as natural and as easy as the kissing. In concert with his strength, I found
my own lovely rhythm, pausing to realize how transcendent this moment was—a near-stranger
and me, making something lovely together. A glow as lovely and golden as the
fall sun.
There
was this little dip between his shoulder blades that I could have spent weeks
caressing. His body was glowing perfection to me, and so, in that happy haze,
was my own.
“Your
arms make me wish I was still a poet,” I said. He’s yoga-strong, like a
huggable sculpture.
“Well,
you could always put pen to paper…” he said.
It’s
helpful to have permission to wax poetic about the deep, glittery waves of
release and joy I felt as we cuddled, then fucked, then cuddled some more. He
spent a long lovely time with my left nipple that I will use (and have used
many times already) during personal time. When I come from the inside, there’s
rarely any big finale, just waves and waves and waves til we both get tired. I
yelped and giggled. “Welcome!” I wanted to say. “THANK you!” I probably did
say.
Afterwards,
until we eventually put back on the Gilmore Girls, we lay listening to a mix of
silence and street noise, breathing and heartbeats. He put his hand on my
heart, I lay my head on his chest. There’s just as much romance in short-lived
flings as in more serious stuff, I think. Maybe that’s why I keep revisiting the
casual—these brief sparkles of connection are no small thing. They’re important
to me, and they give me hope.
There
was talk of sleeping over, but I wanted to go home. Not just because they have
a no-other-partners-in-the-bed rule. (Though it did bring to mind a piece of
Cunning Minx’s advice from years ago that still chimes like an old friend in my
head: “You got all these rules? You don’t get me.”) (Also, in fairness, Sweetie
and I had that rule as well. I was soooooooo happy when I got my own bed.) It
was more that I wanted to go home and be with myself, to honor and process what
had just happened.
He
put on his shoes to walk me out (It was around then that we finally exchanged last
names. I wonder how/if he ever spelled my last name in his phone) and I thought
he was walking me chivalrously to my car. Instead, he gave me a quick peck at the door,
looking around exactly like somebody who’d done something wrong. While I later
wondered if he was being secretive or ashamed of me, I also do enough thinking
about weaponized white womanhood to wonder if he just felt unsafe being seen
with me at night.
Whatever
the reason, his furtiveness didn’t register until later. I went home
well-fucked and starving, ate some night cereal, and slept the best I had in a
long time. There are more Gilmore Guy paragraphs to come, and I’m so glad I
gave us a chance.