Chicago
by jenkapotente
I was sat on a sort of wrap-around bench MJQ has in their disco ball room feeling disgruntled from the unwanted attention of a polo-wearing, non-thug affiliated (maybe) club-goer who cockblocked my imagined opportunity with one of the guitarists of Smithsonian post Drunken Unicorn set with his incessant attention and gropeyness forcing me to improvise a plan B for the night. The lad next to me was in a black v-neck tee, black thick-rimmed square glasses, black tailored trousers and black boots to which my over-sized black and gold studded union jack sweater, black leggings and black leather ankle boots found to be familially comfortable. Comfort-able (This story is about comfort if anyone asks). At this point I’d had three plastic cups of bar wine and was feeling pretty outspoken, friendly, somewhat-uninhibited and endearingly sleazy, or well, let’s say, I’d run out of fucks to give.
I was attracted to him. His posturing. He sat with back straight, head slightly cocked, legs crossed with ankle rested on opposing knee (I’m a sucker for right angles and good posture). We both observed the dance floor, and without hesitation I turned slightly while maintaining eye contact on the object of potential discourse: “She knows what she’s doing. I’d do her. What about you?” He responded with shock, amusement, and interest. I successfully broke ice with a complete stranger.
Over the next hour I learned he was in town on business with a partner (the good-looking but obviously bored and boring lad sat on the other side of him), he was involved in advertising, currently living in Chicago and had previously lived in ATL and was checking out his old haunts. He spoke to me of what MJQ used to be like, the way everyone always speaks about MJQ–with some element of romantic whimsy–the way I imagine some people speak of attending Studio 54 in its heyday.
We had way too much in common, but it was the fact he was a previous massage therapist before going into advertising that moved our setting to his W-Midtown hotel room. He’d mentioned a knee injury but I don’t recall getting below his hip. We’d lost his partner during the MJQ-W migration and we were alone, two silhouettes twenty stories high overlooking Midtown, appreciating body work. It was when he turned supine that things took a more intimate direction (he must have been really into my pectoral compressions). But I had no idea what I was in store for.
He was delicate but intense and acting with my arousal as his purpose without vocalizing it or appearing eager. His actions were fluid and seamless. His positioning was like a plank over me, without rigidity or awkwardness. He fulfilled me multiple times with an ease not even a long-time lover has ever accomplished. He inspired a stereotype: his fitness impressed, or perhaps cemented, upon me the idea men in their 40s are the best lovers. I wanted to move to Chicago for him. I wanted to fly there and find him, uproot myself, my home, to be his favored phallic glove (did I really just say that?). But alas, my memory failed me. And all I knew of him was that night.