The prompt was a song:
“Take it as it comes” by The Doors
(In recognition of the keyboard player Ray Manzarek, who died recently)
She inhaled the smoke deeply and held it while he desperately
tried to make her laugh, prancing about the room like a nude nymph. It didn’t
suit him, he didn’t have the physique for it; he was too skinny. Her mind
drifted into thoughts about the perfect figure and how it could be possible,
how it was only a matter of refining certain things in your life. She looked
down at herself and smiled. No matter how much ‘munchie food’ she ate she
didn’t seem to gain a thing. She watched her chest deflate as she exhaled and
marvelled at how amazing the body was.
Then he touched her and she felt it shiver along her skin. Every
hair felt the touch of his finger as it ran up her bare thigh. She watched as
he reached the top, hovering as though debating direction, then travelling on
up her rib cage, faltering at a couple of moles and circling them.
She inhaled air, watching her ribcage expand and his finger going
up and down. She giggled and he giggled too, and then they couldn’t stop.
The bed they lay on was messy, as though they had been there
for days…and it might have been; neither of them knew anymore.
The doorbell rang and they froze looking at each other with
dawning horror that there was a person out there, potentially a straight person
that they’d have to interact with. Paranoia crept at the edges of their
thoughts. He rushed into some loose trousers, half falling in his attempt to
look respectable, and running his fingers repeatedly through his hair as he
left the room, shaking his head as though trying to clear it and not look quite
so stoned.
She heard laughter at the front door and then footsteps
coming back. Two heads popped round the door and she grinned; it was play time.
His two friends started stripping between drags of the joint they’d been
working on and crawled onto the bed next to her.
Now she had three fingers to watch and they just made her
giggle more and more. She slipped into the fuzzy delight of pure sensation and
went with it.
The next morning she came to and found herself entangled in three
other sleeping bodies. She tried to remember what had happened, but could only
remember the smoking, giggling and lots of touching. She smiled to herself;
they’d fallen asleep and nothing had happened. She knew it; it wasn’t the first
time. So she just lay there and waited. It wouldn’t be long, and then the party
would start again, but this time with some follow through.
You really captured the time well with this fun, cheeky piece. xxx
ReplyDeleteYou caught the era and laziness of the song perfectly...this is a delightful, fun, slow romp! So glad you got placed Miranda!
ReplyDeleteI actually enjoyed writing it a lot! I initially wanted it to take a nasty turn, but in the end it worked out perfectly! Thanks!
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