I asked Miss Chris today, ‘What is the difference between the waiting game and patience?’. The answer was not concise, but it never is. Mostly she lets me ramble to her and when I hit it right on, she lets me know. I told her that I’m in a place where I feel like I’m playing the waiting game. Just waiting for him to give word one way or another. Either we’ll be together or we won’t. There’s not a lot of middle ground. Either he chooses me or he doesn’t. Dom or sub. Owned or not. Kinky or vanilla. Forever or whatever. My lesson this year has been to love. Love with my heart wide open, no matter the consequences. Patience. Be patient and allow people the time they need to learn the lessons they need to learn to be right for me. Sometimes it’s so hard though, especially when my heart is already tied up in someone.
The waiting game implied that I was sitting by idly, just waiting for him to give word. I didn’t do it the first time around and I won’t do it this time around either. The conversation has been about experiences. Do I prefer learning or experiencing? I told him I would always value the experiences over learning. Miss Chris told me today that she hoped I wasn’t missing out on any experiences while I was busy waiting. That’s when I decided I wasn’t waiting — I was being patient. I’m giving him the time he needs to sort his stuff out. In the meanwhile though, there was this date.
When I met him there was no intention of flirting. I knew that he was dating someone from our group. Cute, good energy, kind of silly. He’s an older Dom, so we wouldn’t have much in common anyhow, but he was nice to have around. Then he was at a social. Our table at Applebee’s. Puppy play, where I hopped over and asked if maybe he was a puppy and he told me to not get too excited.
Later on I’d ask if he liked to bottom and he told me to not get too excited.
I’d ask if he liked strap-on play and he told me to not get too excited.
We’re ahead of ourselves.
I told him I was happy to see him there and I was. It’s always good to see familiar faces and I like when people can be open-minded about puppy play especially, because I think it’s just about the sweetest thing in the world. I wish I were a puppy. The most puppy I’m going to get is jumping on someone and growling as I tug the strap of their hood in my mouth. But I’ll pet pups all day long. I’ll give them treats. I’ll praise them. I’ll train them. I want to be around them because they are so giving, so affectionate, so silly. The things I like best about my boys, about my subs.
Turns out he seemed pretty happy that Junk and I were happy to see him. We didn’t think much of it. Everyone was happy to see him, we were sure of it.
Then we saw him at a social. We sat down to talk and I discovered his relationship was coming to an end. He had set an arbitrary date for when things would be terminated if she didn’t come to her good senses — the day before Valentine’s Day. I usually do the same thing. Right now, I’m doing the same thing. If things aren’t resolved by some arbitrary date I’ve set in my head, then it wasn’t mean to be. I can let go and not feel like I’ve failed. There may have been some jager in my system. When she showed up, I asked him if things were about to get awkward. I touched his wrist. He looked down at my hand and then to me and said, ‘Now they are’ and I couldn’t help but laugh, which meant I drew attention.
He disappeared for a while. Kissing in the dark. I grabbed Junk and we found ourselves in a similar position.
There were a few letters exchanged. He had said he needed to talk to someone and I gave him my number and we just didn’t stop texting. We didn’t stop swapping stories. We didn’t stop asking questions.
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner. I can’t be with the man I love. I’ll have my girl with me. I didn’t want him to be lonely though, especially if his relationship was going to end. So I arranged for the three of us to spend it together. We could geek out. Celebrate not having a traditional Valentine’s Day. I’d already warned Junk that I don’t really celebrate it. I’m awful about doing things because I ‘have to’. He seemed to think it was a stellar idea.
The party on Saturday night was good and bad. I got to talk about Devin with a close friend. There were stories exchanged, some advice given, consolation. I felt okay though. This is out of my control. There’s nothing I can do differently. It’s all on him. So now, I can just sit back and enjoy what comes my way. The anguish that he’s suffering isn’t at my hand. I have no responsibility for it. I’d like to guide him through it, but it’s not something that I’m inflicting, not something I can take away.
Then he was by me. I couldn’t help but to pet him — it’s what I do. We parted ways, wound up together again. We’d chat, he’d watch something, I’d work, and then we’d end up together again. At the end of the night, his head was in my lap and I was stroking his hair as we were all talking about chastity, about power exchange, about energy. I asked him if he liked having his hair pulled and I pulled it. I got a warning.
Someone walked by and glanced at the two of us, an odd couple for sure. I hugged him and asked her if she liked my new pet Dom. I got a warning.
As he relaxed and I was petting him again, I pulled his hair again. Harder. I got a warning.
Instead of a silent warning though, his hand went to my neck. He looked up at me and he told me, ‘When we fuck, furniture will be broken.’
Our egos are on the line. It’s kind of exciting. It’s a beat-down to see who gets to be on top.
The following days, there are emotions involved. His relationship ended. We’re talking about the balance of life, of nature. How much you can give in a relationship. When you have to call it quits. I’m not thinking about my own situation. There’s nothing I can do over there. It’s much easier to focus on someone else’s situation.
I ask him a question I’ve asked Devin before: What makes you feel taken care of?
Unlike Devin, he has no idea.
All of the doors are open with this one. I can’t help but to want to push them open wide and go searching. Every question is answered. There is no resistance. He wants to be known. I like getting to explore, so I keep probing, keep asking. I like his ideas on spirituality. I like his emotions. I like what a geek he is. I like being inside, left to wander about.
‘Tell me about your relationships,’ I tell him, and he invites me out for coffee. It’s going to take a while. The night is cold and Junk is home sleeping and he’s got a coffee, a cigarette, and a pad of paper. We start in on the relationships he’s been in. The timeline looks like how I’d imagined it. I don’t know how he got there. I’m curious. I want to know what decisions he’s made that put him where he is today.
Finally, she’s awake. She joins us and we all sit around chatting. We grab dinner and come back. He and Junk make small chat until he has to get up to use the restroom. I tell her it’s like when we went out with Devin, only without Devin. She seems to be sad. She doesn’t like me talking about how we’re not with Devin anymore. I didn’t even know that she liked him so much. I know she misses him being around because it wears on me. Because I feel like my world isn’t right without my boy and my girl.
It’s too cold to sit outside anymore so we go back to his place. His roommate stares as the three of us walk inside. He stares as he sees us cuddled up on the couch together. He stares as we all sit on the floor together.
There’s some talk, some touching, not a lot at first. Eventually we get playful. I find out he’s ticklish. He’s stronger, faster than I am, but there are two of us. We push him down, pin him down, tickle him until he can’t breathe. We take off his shirt. I pet him, touch his skin, cause goosebumps. Junk sprawls out across the both of us. I have my arm around him and he’s petting her hair. If I were open to being touched, I’m sure he’d touch me too. For now, this is the balance that I like.
Our teasing turns to taunting turns to innuendo. Something about bacon. Something about blow jobs. She remarks that we don’t make very good lesbians and it’s the truth. He has to excuse himself for a moment and I steal kisses from her before he comes back. We wander around, looking at his things, scoping out the kitchen. Only in my nightmares have I considered what a house would look like with three men and no women living in it.
He finally comes back, either talking himself down from the idea of having two girls talking about blowing him or ready to go — he didn’t get a chance to say either way. At quarter past midnight, there’s not a whole lot of time for anything. I tell him that we have to leave. I hug him good-bye and as I do I whisper in his ear that I’m going to kiss him. I’d wanted to for a while. Not days long. Not really. Not even from the beginning of that night. But from the beginning of when we all started cuddling. I’d thought about it a time or two. There have been enough instances in my life where I thought ‘What if’ and I wasn’t about to let this be one of them.
He kissed unlike most people I’ve kissed before. Active. Participatory. Not overpowering. There was no test of ego, of will, of dominance. He wasn’t passive, he answered to me, and I could feel that tug-of-war that could have gone on for much longer. I wished it had started earlier in the evening. I had to look at him, think about it for a moment. He turned to look at Junk and suddenly the best thing in the world was about to happen right in front of me. I watched him lean in and kiss her and she didn’t shy away. He kissed her and for a split second it was the most arousing thing I’d seen in ages. And then she squealed! And then she ran out of the house. I couldn’t stop laughing.
This was an experience I thought I’d never have. It opened up a conversation with Junk this morning that gave us a positive review of poly. I had to thank him for that as well. This was the kind of triangle that I thought would be ideal. Where everyone could love and share and be affectionate. I really enjoyed it. I liked the experiences, the lessons, the sharing. I liked the time spent, the stories told, the kiss. I like where we might go, what we might explore, what might come of it all. (Like new furniture.)




