I met Kim through a mutual acquaintance at the apartment complex where we both lived. I was single and between marriage and she as about twenty-one. Kim had a boyfriend who lived at the same complex, but I soon learned that theirs was a strange relationship. One evening as I was getting ready for work, Kim knocked on my apartment door. She was flushed and out of breath, as she darted in to my first floor flat and I closed the door behind her.
“Whatsssup?” I casually asked as Kim plopped down on to my couch.
Kim said she was scared, because she had just trashed her boyfriend’s apartment after finding out that he had been seeing another guy. I was stymied. A guy? I knew her boyfriend, Ben, pretty well, but I didn’t know he was gay.
“Neither did I,” Kim exclaimed. “That motherfucker is as gay as gay can be.”
Now I am not homophobic, and I am not gay, but I am gay-tolerant. I figure that whatever someone else does in the privacy of their bedroom, is their own business. Kim was hacked and in majorly so. I asked how she knew, and she said she had seen him giving another guy a blow job in the parking lot. I asked of she was sure, and she shook her head up and down.
I felt bad for Kim, because she was super cute, and she seemed like a good match for Ben. I was on my way out to work. Kim said she couldn’t go to her apartment, because she knew Ben would come looking for her. She asked if she could hide out in my apartment while I was at work. I was fine with her staying in my apartment and told her that’s I’d be back around eleven that night.
“I may have to hide out here for a few days until things blow over,” she replied.
“I don’t need Ben coming after me,” I replied.
“It’ll be OK,” Kim replied, “I promise to not be a bother.”
How could I turn her down? She needed a safe place to stay, so I agreed.
That night, when I arrived back at my apartment, I slipped my key into the door and found it deadbolted. I tapped on the door and no ne answered. I called Kim and she didn’t answer her phone.
A ‘no bother’ became a quick agitation. I slipped around to the patio and pulled on the patio sliding glass door. I was happy to feel it slide back. I slipped into my apartment and closed the sliding door behind me, latching.
My apartment was pitch black, except for a beam of dim light emitting from my bedroom. I could hear my bedroom television set on. I stepped up to my bedroom door.
Kimberly screamed.
Her scream startled me. I broke out in a hearty laugh. She was laying on my bed, under the covers, watching a rerun of the “Twilight Zone.”
“You scared the shit out of me,” she exclaimed as I walked into my bedroom.
“Sorry,” I replied, “But I do live here.”
I took off my tie and slipped out of my blazer and kicked off my shoes.
“Are you sleeping with me or on the couch?” I asked.
“Can I sleep here?” she asked.
“Sure,” I replied. “But I have to warn you, I am not an easy guy to sleep with.”
“I know Judo,” Kimberly replied. “I am a third-degree black belt.”
“I’m a fifth degree,” I replied. I was lying through my teeth, but I didn’t want her upping me. I slipped into my bathroom, relieved myself of four hours of drinking sodas and brushed my teeth. I stripped down to my boxers and t-shirt and made my way to what I would claim to be “my side of the bed,” pulling the covers over myself and giving my back to her.
“Turn off the light,” I asked. The room went dark.
“Thanks,” She proffered from her side of the bed. “I owe you.”
“Yes, you do,” I replied.
At some point during the night, I gravitated towards her side of the bed. It wasn’t intentional, it just happened. I tossed arm an over her and she inched herself backwards, toward my side of the bed. I didn’t say a word as I pressed myself into her. She hummed an approval and I planted a light kiss on the back of her head.
I had a raging hard on and I am pretty sure she probably noticed it, but, neither of us did anything. We simply lie there, spooning one another.
I had the day off, so I was happy to be sleeping in, until I heard the shower running. I glanced at my alarm clock. It was ten o’clock. I slipped into the bathroom, as Kim showered behind a frosted shower curtain. I raised the lid to the toilet and did my thing. Suddenly, Kim’s head peaked out from behind the shower curtain.
“Shit,” she exclaimed, “You scared me.”
“I had to pee,” I explained, proffering an apology.
“Are you going to shower?” Kim asked from behind the shower curtain.
“Yeah,” I replied.
“I’ll be out in a moment,’ she replied. It wasn’t the answer I wanted to hear, but it was the answer I got. She asked for me to hand her a towel. I ignored her request and headed back to the bed. I could see her sticker her head out from behind the shower curtain. She looked in my direction. I pretended to be asleep.
She shook her head and stepped out of the shower-tub, and quickly wrapped herself in the towel, giving me only a momentary glimpse of her nakedness. She made her way into the bedroom and pronounced that she was done with the shower. I faked be half asleep and made my way to the bathroom, where I unceremoniously stripped and stepped into the shower.
When I finished with the shower, I found Kim was sitting on the edge of the bed, still wrapped in the towel, and combing her long brown hair. She was intently focused on something on the tv. I made my way to my dresser and retrieved some fresh underwear. I dropped the towel and put on some fresh boxer shorts. As I walked back by Kim to the bathroom, we exchanged quick glances. Neither of us said a word.
I offered to take Kim out for breakfast. She opted to stay in the apartment saying she needed to keep a low profile. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that she was an old tv show aficionado, like myself. We sat around and watched several television shows until it was late in the afternoon.