Photograph property of Breath-Takers. Of course.
I used to live in Toronto. In The Beaches. It’s a community to the east. Down by Lake Ontario.
One of its foundations is the 501 streetcar. It runs right to the very margent of The Beaches, to Neville Park, where it turns around.
There was a pizza joint there I used to go to a lot. The pizza wasn’t ‘that’ good, but it became part of my routine, my life, so I guess it got jacked-up in status by that fact.
So that’s where we’re going. At 11:45 at night.
Mai and I sit at the back of the ‘red rocket’. With its expansive windows, the wraparound glass at the vehicle’s ‘caboose’. It’s a mid-week night, so there’s not a lot of activity; the streetcar’s mostly empty.
“This is a ‘date’, isn’t it?” Mai asks.
“I’m paying you,” I laugh. “I hardly think that it qualifies as a ‘date’.”
“Okaaaay,” she whines, pinching my thigh, “maybe we could pretend that it’s a ‘date’.”
“I’m glad you said ‘Yes’ when I asked you out on this date,” I tell her.
“That’s better.”
We each stare at the sights, as we head east, the rumbling of the wheels counter-pointed by the rising buzz of our progress, then the descending burr of us slowing down to stop.
“What are the chances I could get a hummer on a first date, anyway...?”
It’s interesting how the weather can play on your appetite.
That, and scads of sex.
“Where do you put it?” I ask Mai after her third piece. We’ve chosen to stand at the bar at the front window, once again sight-seeing. And there’s a surprising amount to see this time of night in this pedestrian’s enclave.
“On my titties,” she replies, poking her tongue out at me. “So you won’t be complaining, will you...?”
I go close to her, putting my free hand against her lower back and bussing a portion of her ear. “When we get back to the hotel...”
“Yes...?”
“I’m not going to fuck you.”
“Mm-hmm...?”
“I’m going to make languid love to you.”
She nods, keep munching on her slice. “Are you now...?”
“Yes, I am. I’m going to gently and adoringly –and mindful of your full belly– make love to you until you drift off into a blissful somnambulance, your journey lubricated by orgasmic transcendence.”
“I can let you do that.”
“Yippee!”
“With one condition.”
“Carry on,” I say, kissing her cheek, the tip of her nose...then chastely, her mouth.
“Promise me that you’ll keep making me come throughout the night.”
“While you’re asleep.”
“While I’m asleep,” she says, her complexion deepening in the moment; I can tell that if she could, Mai would take me. Here. Now. At this bar, in this storefront window. “Will you do that?”
“You’re asking me to not go to sleep so that I can service you.”
“No...” she says, turning to face me. “I’m asking you to service me through the night. But you can take cat-naps.” She pulls back to nibble on her crust. “But maybe you don’t fancy me enough to do that...”
“Mai...”
“Callum...”
“How much am I paying you to be here?”
“Lots,” she grins innocently. “Lots and lots and lots.”
It’s my turn to nod. “Deal,” I tell her, returning to my own pizza.
“Yippee...”
She’s dead tired when we get back.
Part of this is the time-change, part is the fresh air she’s been out in, part of it is the skating, the walking, the having outdoors-fun.
And yeah; part of it is the sex we’ve been engaged in.
So she sits in the bathroom, on the toilet, an upright sphinx, while I remove her makeup.
She says nothing.
I say nothing.
It’s just me returning her to her natural state, and Mai...peeing.
“Don’t wipe,” I tell her.
Her eyes open.
“I’m going to spend some time eating you. I like the taste of your urine.”
She just stares.
I lead her to the bed, peeling off her robe as she goes, so that when she’s arrived, she’s naked.
Mai climbs up onto the king-size playground, adjusts the pillows, lies down...grabs another pillow and shoves it under her rump, and closes her eyes. “Good night, Lover...”
I take in the sight of her...and feel myself harden.
“Don’t forget your promise,” she adds, already sounding dopey.
I crawl to her. Then begin kissing her legs. Her knees, her thighs.
“I’m not going to be able to sleep if you’re tickling me.”
“You’re right,” I murmur, pushing my beard up to her crotch, scratching her all the way.
“Stop it!” she laughs.
“A friend’s girlfriend had a name for his beard.”
She waits.
“His ‘womb-broom’.”
There’s a slight delay, then Mai is buckled-up with laughter, holding her tummy...
...until I plant my face between her thighs and proceed to make love to her with my mouth.
“Oh... Oh, blimey... No sleep for me for a while... Goddamn, I love the way you give head...”