Principles and a Watcher in the Dark.

Before I can really think I slide my middle finger up into Piya’s saturated pussy to the base of my palm. She cries in exquisite agony, folding herself over at her mid-drift.

“Did something happen with your boyfriend? Have you two broken up?” I have to ask. I’m just so bewildered by Piya’s sudden change of actions.

“No. We’re still together,” Piya admits as she polishes her pussy against my hand.

“What the fuck Piya?” I say snatching my hand away from her snatch causing her to moan in disappointment.

“It’s alright. He doesn’t have to know. I told him I was cooking and staying with my parents tonight. I just really need you to fuck me so badly,” Piya practically begs on top of me.

“You can not be serious!” I yell angrily. This time I was able to lift Piya up off me and slide myself out and away from her on the carpet.

“What’s the matter?” Piya asks as she sits cross-legged on my living room floor. Her glistening wet pussy lips open for me to see.

“The amount of shit you put me through for just kissing you while you still had a boyfriend and now you want us to have sex. Why now all of a sudden? Is it because one of your friends has shown interest in me at the gym? Because…” I’d very nearly blurted out ‘because Aor sucked my cock’ but manage to rain my temper in at the very last second as I got up off the floor.

“No. No. No!” Piya shouts standing up now too and trying to put her arms around me.

I shrug her off and step back quickly.

“It’s because I don’t love him. I haven’t for years. Ever since I met you. But I’m afraid.”

“Afraid of what?”

“Afraid of breaking up. Being alone. Afraid of messing things up with you and driving you out of my life. It was easier to love you while you were near than risk loving you from afar,” Piya finally admits everything she’s been feeling in a rush.

I don’t know what to think. My mind can’t process so many revelations all at once. “I think you should go.”

Piya sobs. Her knees nearly buckle and she has to lean on the sofa for support.

“You need to sort out your own relationship first. I can’t be a part of that.”

Piya nods knowing the truth of my words.

It is a bitter end to a very enjoyable night otherwise. The apartment takes on the atmosphere of a morgue as Piya collects the things she has brought over and soon departs. Neither of us knows what to say at the front door and we part without a word. My entrance shuts with a hollow boom as Piya walks off into the night.

I don’t sleep well that night. Friday at work is an ordeal. I am overtired and short on patience. Getting into many stupid arguments with patrons that work that I could have easily avoided normally. When I come close to snapping on some stupid guy for the umpteenth dude-bro for the night I’m kindly told by Aaron, my supervisor, to clock out for the night and to take tomorrow off to clear my head as well. It’s for the best and probably exactly what I need. At least I won’t have to deal with Piya if she comes in on a Saturday night.

Sleep that second night is only mildly better than the one before. I’m still feeling fatigued the following day and keep entirely to myself at my apartment. I order some takeout and am just taking down the rubbish to the carpark area when a familiar voice accosts me from the shadows.

“This is a nice complex you live in.”

Stepping into the light and out from behind my car is Aor. I wouldn’t have recognised her if I’d seen her first as she is dressed entirely differently. She is head to toe in a pitch-black tracksuit set. The hood was up over her head and covering her golden hair leaving just her beautiful face.

“Jesus Christ!” I swear. “You scared me half to ****.”

“Sorry,” Aor says with a laugh. “I didn’t know which apartment was yours or I might have invited myself up.”

This is the second time now Aor has surprised me by turning up where I am. I’m not so clueless this time. There weren’t any posts online with Yui or someone else for her to find me. I’m not about to let it go either.

“How is it you know where I live?”

“Well, Piya had mentioned that she was cooking food at her parents’ house on Thursday night and Lawan told me that Piya wasn’t there and didn’t arrive until much later in the small hours of the morning. I checked the location on her mobile phone and it stayed in this very building for several hours. If you two are fucking now she’s is going to have to do a much better job of hiding it from her boyfriend or he’s going to find out.”

“We are not fucking!” I say a little too vehemently taking Aor aback.

“Ok. I believe you.”

“I’m sorry Aor is there something that you wanted?”

“I’m getting to that. When Piya didn’t want to go out to your work at all this weekend, I thought something was up between you two. You weren’t at the club when I went pass either so I decided to come here and wait for you.”

I could have stayed in my apartment all weekend and not come out. It was only pure luck that my bins were full and needed emptying.

Realising she is losing my patience Aor quickly finishes her explanation with what she’s come for. “I need your help on a stakeout and there’s no one else I can trust, unfortunately.”

“A stakeout. What for?”

“I promise to answer all your questions afterwards if you just say yes,” Aor says holding out her pinkie finger towards me.

Boy, do I have some questions for Aor all right.