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Selections from a Bedroom Closet

By Thomas S. Roche

“Know what would be hot?” She breathed warmth against the back of my neck. “If you picked my clothes for tonight.”

I had been working, focused on the task at hand, a document that required my intense scrutiny—so much so that I had not even noticed her coming up behind me. naked, steamy, smelling of shower.

But I noticed her breath on my neck.

My office is in the living room; city living has its drawbacks. She was forever scaring the shit out of me by sneaking up on me and saying things in my ear while I worked. This time I wasn’t scared, not even startled—just perplexed.

I reached back and took the hand she’d started trailing up my neck; I drew deep and smelled more glorious freshly-showered girl.

“Tonight?”

She made a disgusted noise. “Don’t you ever remember a social engagement?”

“I try not to.”

She spun my office chair around and sat in my lap facing me. I caught my breath, eyes roving up and down her naked body.

“Have you been working out?” I asked, equal parts snide and horny.

“Fuck you,” she said. She grabbed my hair and pulled. She shook my head violently. “Anne and Julian? China? Going away forever?”

I nodded fervently. “Right, right, right! It’s not forever, just for two years. Is that tonight?”

“In half an hour, Calendar Boy.”

“Fuck,” I said. “We’d better get moving.”

“As I was saying,” she frowned. “Wanna be my Slut Eye?”

“What are you talking about?”

She leaned in close. I smelled her more deeply: soap, shampoo and hot girl’s body. With her legs spread like that and me hunkered down in the chair from her weight, I could almost smell her sex—or , rather, I fancied that maybe I could.

She put her lips against my ear and said it more softly this time, her voice like a fondue-dipped purr.

She breathed, “Pick…out…my…clothes.”

She leaned back slightly, just enough so I could see her big bright eyes as she faked innocence.

“I’ll wear anything,” she said. “Anything you say.”

My eyes got narrow. I gave her the down-up.

“How ’bout that?”

She got that look on her face—that fucking look. No, not that one. Not the playful/played with, teasing/teased, sarcastic/skeptical eye-rolling what-the-fuck-ever that would have been perfectly appropriate—not that one. The other one. The one that says take me, and means it.

“If you like,” she purred. “I promise. Anything.”

I was hard inside of a second, two seconds, five at the outside. I smelled her, lifted her, put her on her feet like a china doll. I would have carried her to the bedroom Tarzan-style, but I’d done that once and left a bump on her head the size of a softball—now all trips from living room to bedroom were accomplished under individual power and navigation, whether upright or on all fours. We opted for upright this time.

“All right,” I said. “Let’s go.”

She sprawled out loose on the bed, which I’d cheerfully made with fresh white sheets and the newly-laundered white comforter around noon, working at home while she labored at the office. She liked it made; she loved the bed freshly made when she was naked. Liked it neat and clean and unsullied, our bed an innocent expanse of white comforter and carefully placed expensive pillows, a clean white virgin on the outside with a firm pillow-top whore keeping filthy secrets underneath.

She liked to spread out on it and let me see her body. I did that, trying not to look too hard, because to give her that kind of encouragement at this late hour would mean a tardy arrival for sure. So I just grazed my eyes across her casually spread thighs, and her belly, taut with the arch of her back, and her high tight breasts, perky with the closeness of her shoulders pressed together as she leaned up on her arms—as if she’d just happened to land in the exact position assumed by half the centerfolds from Marilyn on down. As if she’d just happened to shave fifteen minutes ago, with such caution that her perfect pussy showed not a hint of burn. As if she’d just, well, “felt” like pouting, panting, pursing her lips as she looked at me.

My girl: the short-con sex artist of the century. Take a chance that I’d pick a “nice” dress? Not her. Not in a million. Tonight’s soiree was for friends and acquaintances with whom she could be herself—which is to say, a sex fiend.

Our bedroom has a good-sized walk-in closet that had become hers, because I was a three-pairs-of-pants, seven-polo-shirts and one-fairly-decent-suit kind of guy. Her closet was crammed full. It had begun with two tiers of bars; I’d been cajoled into adding two more bars. The result was that it was packed tight with daily wear in front, and more obscure, strangely girly and/or historic concoctions in its dark, chaotic rear.

When asked to dress one’s girlfriend like a slut a man has several options, each of which is a competitive sport. I pleasantly went through all three options, as if I were competing for the gold medal at the boyfriend Olympics.

First came the obligatory. We had not been together all that long; there had not yet been time for a total rotation of wardrobe. In fact, I had seen it not too long ago, tucked at the back of the closet. Did she keep it for sentimental reasons? Fuck if I know. One thing was certain: she didn’t make it easy for me. She didn’t keep it near the front. But not to plunge into the closet and mine for the thing would have been to settle, I think, for the bronze.

“What the fuck are you looking for?” she asked peevishly, as I leaned half-in to the mess that was our closet. I ignored her. “Hel-looooo!” she cried sarcastically when I did not respond.

Then I found it, grasped it, and brought it out, dusting it off. I smoothed my hair back as I stumbled out of the mess of the back closet and held up the dress.

Her eyes widened; her lips popped open. I watched the wheels of her brain turning. I could hear them click and whirr between her baby-blues. She opened her mouth to make a sarcastic remark. She bit that back and opened her mouth to make a sickly-sweet, gooey remark, and bit that back as well. She couldn’t say a word at first; I thought I saw her eyes go slightly moist.

“Wow,” she said. “Just…wow.” It was the dress she’d worn on our first date.

“Wow,” she said. “Is that what you want?”

I shrugged, turned, put it away. I crawled back into the depths of the closet; I could almost hear her rolling her eyes. I could definitely hear her glaring at the clock—we were gonna be late. But then, we’re on California time, so…

I stumbled out holding it up: my prize, dusty and wrinkled. She let out a horrified gasp, gave me the look—no, not the take me look, the what the fuck, you lunatic? look.

Then, I guess, she remembered how she’d said “anything.” She looked the outfit up and down, watching it seethe there on the hanger, begging for sin. She leaned back on her too-perfectly-poised arms, wiggled her too-perfectly-positioned tits, let her spread thighs do that close-tremble-open thing that always does it for me.

She said, “Is that what you want, Daddy?”

It was her schoolgirl outfit—plaid, white, blue. That is to say, skirt, blouse, tie, respectively. She’d worn it to fetish party #3, at the Twenty-Third Street space, back before demanding work schedules and the comfort of cohabitation made us conveniently forget to bother being pervy anymore.

“Tempting,” I said. “But not quite right for a send-off to China.”

“If you pull out a Chongsam…” she warned.

“Do you have one?”

“Who the fuck knows? I forgot I had a schoolgirl outfit.”

I returned the schoolgirl outfit to the closet and made my way back in. This time, I didn’t go far. The dress I wanted for her was right near the front. It had been beckoning to me since the beginning.

I pulled it out and laid it on the bed, leaning in close to her. Now I could definitely smell her sex, alongside the scent of freshly-showered girl.

“Good choice,” she said, regarding my final selection. “Not exactly naughty, but…”

It was her cutest little black dress, but it wasn’t quite slutwear. She wore it often. It was short and reasonably snug. It was everyday wear, and yet as sexy as hell.

“Is that your final answer?” she asked as I leaned in.

“No,” I said. “This is.” I kissed her hard, my tongue against hers and my teeth grazing her permanently bee-stung lower lip. She took it, and liked it, and smiled when I finally pulled away.

“What else?” she asked.

“Else?” I said innocently.

She got a wicked look on her face. “Underneath. I’ll wear anything you want underneath. One of those thongs you like? You want me in garters?”

“No,” I said.

“No?” she asked. “No, what?”

“Just no.”

“So what should I—” she began, and it hit her; she looked surprised for a moment.

“Nothing?”

“Not a stitch,” I said, and a little shudder went through her body.

That was that; the game was up. I was on her. She made some faint bleating sound about being late for the party, and kept complaining until I kissed my wet way down her belly and planted my tongue hard and insistent between lips that still tasted like shaving cream. Then she stopped doing much except bucking and rocking and moaning and shuddering a little, as I slid my fingers into her and closed my lips against her swelling clit. Before she even knew what was happening I’d found the rhythm I knew like the beat of my heart—the rhythm that would make us on time to the party, or close to it. Then I broke it up and sent my tongue a dozen competing directions, teasing her until we were guaranteed to be very late.

When it was done—when she’d cried out in orgasm, and with clawing hands and pumping hips she’d taken that virgin bed and made it her whore—the little black dress had been tossed at some point off the bed and onto the floor. I looked up at her from between legs spread wider than ever. I needed a shower myself, or at least a face-wash.

“There,” I said. “Wear that.”

“Wear what?” she panted.

“That glow,” I said.

So she did, beneath the dress, and nothing else. And she wore it well—with the result that every soul who saw her that night positively knew.

About the glow, I mean.

As far as the underwear went, I think only I was the wiser.