Vera tightened her nipples
involuntarily and became aware
with an inner wince
of a lengthening depth
to her crotch canal.
"Need" she identified
the feeling as. Pathetic!
How can one need
what one doesn't even want?
More to the point, how
can one unwant unwanted
or unwonted need? Seamy
as unseemly. Naturally,
Mal noticed. Observant
as a painted brick wall,
that one - but not one
to miss this.
"Yo babe!" he unremarkably
remarked. His eyes almost cross,
unsurreptitiously misaligned
the shortest distance of least resistance
between these windows to a dimlit
dimwit soul, and not just any
but particularly two given
points.
"It looks like your id's set off
the superego alarm again?" His face
and voice grew in sympathy, his eyes
met hers. "Autonomous or autonomic?"
She melted like a bar of platinum
sent next to a hunk of lead. "Suddenly,"
appalled as honesty, "both."
"Hot damn!" he cackled, breaking
the spell and - would you believe it?
Rubbing together clasped hands! His own,
at least. "So what's the deal?" he grinned
like a diner regular with the whole all-day
menu laid out laminated, hinting about
specials. His eyes grew thoughtful, and
grew more, to accommodate
actual ideas. "One-shot? Or,"
he did not pause, "Open a proper
trial series with an eye to buy? A
futures speculation, inclining
towards bullish?"
His whole manner said either. Decision
all hers. "Mal, why don't we start
with one of my classic not-a-date
coffee lunches?"
"A quiver of disappointed suspicion
ran down his lengthened member as
Mal took this in. He spoke cautiously yet"
"No! No no no no Mal."
Mal froze. Self-consciousness caught
like light
in a jar.
"You cannot do the narration
out loud."
Mal brightened, abashed. Only he
could do that. "Bah!" he said - surprisingly
convincingly sheepish. "I'm still learning, but!
I do want to." He looked open. Naïve. Even
gullible, but with a hint still of seagull
to it - raffishly, ravenously scavenging
from atop graceful wing with plaintive
and insistent cry, high-pitched.
She loved him like this, and flipped
inner polarity in an instant: fondly
hating such obviously needless
want. Pathetic! - she again diagnosed,
and correctly. He was beneath her,
already, or
good as.
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