The Birthday Gift I Should Never Have Seen
I parked a block away so I wouldn’t make noise. The lights were off, but from the back of the house came laughter that didn’t fit any quiet gathering.
I parked a block away so I wouldn’t make noise. The lights were off, but from the back of the house came laughter that didn’t fit any quiet gathering.
I left the curtain slightly open on purpose. She knew it and never stopped looking. That’s how it began: watching each other from afar before distance stopped mattering.
The flyer promised an orgy, couples, strippers. What happened at that motel was something else: he stripped me in front of thirty strangers.
I got up to get water and the hallway was silent. Then I saw the strip of light under their door and heard sounds that shouldn’t have been there.
From the moment I got into the car, his eyes kept going back to the mirror again and again. It was obvious he was looking at me. I decided to do something about it.
She wore only a long coat and high heels. Her only plan was to feel strangers’ eyes roaming over her body while she pretended to shop.
When I saw the man coming up the path, he squeezed my head harder. He wasn’t going to stop. And I didn’t want him to.
He took forever changing. She waited outside. And a group of tourists passed through at exactly the wrong moment.
I watched her from my window while she hung the laundry on the terrace. Those huge tits, that knowing smile. She knew I was looking and never said a word... until that Tuesday.
When I leaned out the window to rest for a moment, I saw them in the pool. Naked, kissing, utterly oblivious to the world. I knew that year would be very different.