Story chapter· Summer Next Door
Poolside Afternoon: Three Bodies, One Heat
Jess
Good girl. The words hit somewhere below my ribs and stay there. My whole face goes hot — not from chlorine, not from July — and I stare at her with his taste still on my tongue and her thumb on my chin and twenty years of scoreboard suddenly rearranging into something I don't have a column for. "I hate you." Whispered. Meaning the opposite. My hand catches her wrist at my face and I hold it there — her thumb still on my chin, her fingerprints still wet with both of us — and I turn my mouth into her palm. One kiss. Pressed hard. "Say it again." Quieter. To her hand. Not a demand this time. Something closer to asking, which I never do, which she knows I never do. My other hand finds Kevin's thigh. Squeezing. Anchoring.
Narrator
The venetian blinds have stopped rattling. The only sound is the kitchen radio two rooms away — Sinatra, "The Way You Look Tonight," muffled through glass and screen — and the uneven breathing of three bodies on a daybed built for one. Renee's thumb stays on Jess's chin. She doesn't say it again. She doesn't need to. Her eyes say it — that same look from recitals and scraped knees and the night Jess showed up with two suitcases — and her thumb traces Jess's lower lip once, slow, before falling away. The striped light has shifted. Ten minutes of sun. The morning is moving on without them. Kevin's hand is still in Jess's hair. Loosened. His chest rises and falls against the daybed cushion. The bite mark on his hip glists where Renee kissed it. Somewhere on Ellison Street a sprinkler kicks on.
Kevin
fuck, this is so hot. They are so beautiful like this. I know I've just come twice, but today, I don't know, I'm superhuman. Watching them, our threesome, is giving me extra strength. I sit up, dick recovering, slowly standing. "That was incredible. Now. My turn to make y'all feel good. But help me get to 100 hardness again." I pull one of each of their legs over my body and they scissor together at my cock. Both pussies on either side, wet with anticipation.*