The Fix
The light from the street lamps shone on the dark puddles on the damp
pavement. A fine drizzle continued to fall, dampening Martin's spectacles
as he strode along the forbidding streets. It wasn't really the night for
a stroll. And this wasn't a part of town where a would be wandering
for the sights or the restful ambience. But Martin was a on a mission.
And this was the best part of town to be.
He wasn't alone. Resting by lamp posts, or in the doorways of shuttered
shops, or in the shadow of hedges, could be seen the occasional silhouette
of women, dressed provocatively, frequently smoking, and eyeing him with
rather less reserve than that which he eyed them. Martin shivered. Did he
have to? he wondered. But then, of course, why else would anyone choose
to come out to this part of town?
In the nearly fifty years of his life, the usual pleasures of marriage
or children had somehow eluded him. He had tried. God! He'd tried! But
it just hadn't been his destiny. Women just didn't take to him somehow.
And the chances were getting fewer, as his hair thinned, his paunch grew
larger and his future shrank ahead of him. And it wasn't just romance that
had eluded him. In everything he did, he knew that he had under-achieved.
He wasn't one of life's winners. He'd never got the promotions he'd
wanted. At least not until so late it was a recognition of his seniority
and patience than any native ability. Time and time again, he'd seen
younger leapfrog ahead of him. For them advancement, romance, marriage
and respect just came naturally.
But not to him. He had no exciting past to reflect on, no youthful
excesses to regret, nothing in his life which he could positively identify
as an achievement for which he could be the envy of others. But he was a
man. And he had needs the same as any other man. And if they weren't to
come to him effortlessly through the exercise of his charm and personality,
then they would have to come to him the only other way. And that was by
the exchange of dollars and cents.
Prostitutes had become his release. In fact, they almost become his
chief hobby. The main source of pleasure in his life. Something he would
plan in advance and savour the prospect. Something to reflect on after the
event and inevitably about which to feel some degree of shame. But always
something ultimately more satisfying and more exciting than downloading
images off the Internet, poring through glossy magazines or watching women
in improbable ecstasy on DVDs. The feel of real warm flesh against his own
skin, his penis tugged and pulled and sucked, and then sometimes the
pleasure of penetration (always a little more expensive and that much more
to be cherished) as his prick was eased into the condom the always
thoughtfully supplied and then into the warm liquid embrace of the two
fleshy lower lips. He only regretted that he so rarely tasted the lips on
the girls' mouths. But that was an intimacy they always denied him.
Martin strode along, his eyes darting nervously about as he evaluated
the women on display. Part of him actually felt quite sorry for the girls.
It couldn't be much fun for them to be standing around in the evening
drizzle, waiting for cars to slow down and pick them up. And they really
weren't dressed for the weather. The skirts were so very short, the tops
just so very brief, the heels so tottering and precipitous. And the faces.
Sometimes so with make-up that it was difficult to imagine what the
actual features underneath might be like.
And then Martin saw her. And he felt a slight tightening of the throat
and a thump in his chest as the excitement of encounter came closer. The
girl he'd had so many times before that he was almost a regular. She
wasn't the prettiest in the world. But none of them were really. She
was skinny, with large broad feet, and a twisted mouth on a face with a
sharp chin and a long pointed nose. There she was (and of course Martin
had no idea what she might be called), in her long pale tights, smoking her
cigarette on the street corner, her heels so high that Martin could see
right through them to the pavement edge.
And then she wasn't there. A dark brown Mondeo slowed down, and in a
trice she was gone. Martin sighed as her tight, if rather fatty, bum
disappeared through the car door, and the last she saw of her was a glimpse
of her bleached, tied-back hair through the streaks of drizzle on the
passenger window. So nearly and yet not nearly enough.
Disappointed, Martin paused in his steps. He almost felt like
abandoning his quest altogether. He pushed his hands into the pockets of
his overcoat and continued striding on. He couldn't come this far and just
turn back. Even though he knew of a nearby bar where he could at least
drown his sorrows.
"Are you looking for something?" he suddenly heard a woman's voice break
into his reverie. He turned his head to see the dark shadowy figure of a
thin woman, dressed in black with long unkempt black hair, just by a
telephone pole.
He smiled more from politeness than anything else. "Yes," he heard
himself mouth as he looked at her pale emaciated face. She didn't look
like she'd eaten for a long time. She had virtually no fat obscuring her
high cheek-bones and her perpetually startled gaze. "How much?"
The hesitated. "Twenty dollars," she announced at length.
"For what?"
She shrugged her shoulders. "A fuck," she decided noncommittally.
A fuck! That was cheap. What was the catch? He studied her face. It
was so ill-looking. She must be a junky, Martin decided. Out for a fix.
She must be desperate. But twenty dollars! He couldn't turn down an offer
like that.
"Yeah! That sounds fine!" he decided. "Where?"
"My place," she said, emerging from the shadows in black tights which
emphasised the bony knees which punctuated her slim legs, and the tiny
skirt beneath the flimsy high-collared black blouse. She obviously didn't
feel the cold. "Follow me."
Martin obeyed her command, and followed her along some ill-lit lanes
toward a large dilapidated apartment block, which she entered. His steps
followed her steps as she ascended the stairs in the flickering bulb-light,
taking the advantage to examine the girl's strangely old-fashioned black
high-heeled shoes and the bony contours of her arse. She finally arrived
at a door on whatever floor Martin had lost count, opened it with a key and
let him in.
Martin had been in girls' flats before, and he was used to their spartan
functionality. But this one was almost too minimal in content. In the
single room of the apartment there was nothing except a mattress, bare of
even sheets, on the stained bare dark floor-boards illuminated by the
inadequate aura of a single low wattage light-bulb. dark curtains
hid all evidence of the street outside.
And they weren't alone. Slumped in the corner, staring vacantly in
front of her, was another girl, and one, despite the chill in the air in an
apartment that didn't even have the luxury of heating, who wore no clothes
at all. Fuck! These junkies! They have no standards or decorum at all.
And like the who'd picked him up, she was painfully thin and pale. In
fact there seemed to be an unhealthy blue pallour about her. Her scrawny
breasts hung on her stomachless chest, and her feet were stretched in front
of her, not attempting to obscure the long dark hairs of her crotch.
There was no ceremony, but that was usual. Martin removed his clothes
to reveal his paunchy waist, his slim arms and legs, and stood in the room
in just his socks and spectacles. At least there was no mirror by which
Martin could compare his ageing frame with his fondly held self-image of a
somewhat younger man. With even less ceremony, the pulled off her own
clothes, leaving them in a black heap on the bare floorboards. Without her
clothes, she was exactly like her slumped friend. Pale, thin and
ill-looking. Her large black eyes shone darkly from beneath her brow, not
appearing to care about or even recognise Martin's existence.
And then she lay down on the bare mattress, buttocks sinking into its
worn springs, her legs wide open and a shocking black crotch which Martin
knew was soon to be all his. "Now?" he asked uncertainly.
She nodded, with a fixed stare expressing neither emotion nor meaning.
Not exactly the warmest welcome that Martin had ever had. But at twenty
dollars. Well, you couldn't complain.
He bent his knees down onto the dark-stained mattress, feeling the
well-worn springs flag under the weight of his hairy knees. At least his
penis was awake. It wasn't always so well-behaved. Sometimes it needed a
bit of coaxing. Sometimes a lot of coaxing. There were the occasions when
even after an embarrassed ten minutes of fellatio, he'd had to admit
defeat, but still be as much out of pocket as if it had been fully erect.
But today it was fully erect, a full five inches of fat, throbbing flesh,
its glans pushed beyond the confines of the foreskin, ready to take
possession of the pale girl's cunt.
And then he was on top of her, his hands around her white angular
shoulders, his chin in her hair and the hairs of his chest brushing onto
the small empty breasts, with their long dark pink nipples. Her skin was
so cold. Colder than he believed flesh and blood could ever be. The drugs
these take. What do they do to you! He carefully eased his penis
into the condom he'd brought. Uncharacteristically, this didn't seem
to care for her health even in that department. But Martin was cautious.
He had no intention of catching anything. And he'd heard that junkies were
the ones most likely to carry all sorts of sexually transmitted diseases.
Even the dreaded AIDS. That was one illness he could do well without.
The condom was all that kept his prick warm as it thrust deep into the
girl's cunt, who continued to stare blankly at the ceiling as he thrust
away, not even pretending to enjoy his passion. But in a strange way, this
lack of emotional attachment was quite arousing in him, as his fleshy
stomach pounded against the girl's sharp hips and the hairs of her tangled in the hairs of his groin. In. Out. Back. Forth. Push. Push.
And then, unexpectedly, a cold hand on his shoulder. He turned round to
see that the other was there, not smiling, but quite clearly with
intent. She ran her cold fingers down his chest, and then impulsively
grabbed his prick. She pulled it out of the first girl's cunt, and
manoeuvred it towards her own. And then, it was inside her, as she lay by
the side of her friend, who at last came to life. The two wrapped
their arms around each other, brushing their heads together, while Martin's
bursting erect penis transferred its attention inside the second girl's
cunt, thrusting with an excitement he'd hardly ever experienced before.
Two girls! And only twenty dollars. He didn't care whether he had to pay
more. He'd so often masturbated over the fantasy of having sex with more
than one woman at the same time. And now it was happening!
The first eased the condom off his erect prick and took it between
her pale lips, her sharp teeth closing gently onto its base, while the
other nuzzled around his neck. Fuck! This was paradise.
And then a sudden sharp pain. And a hiss. What the fuck! And a warm
liquid on his face. And it wasn't semen. He grimaced in horror as he
realised that it was blood. And his horror sharpened as he realised it was
his own. And then a sharp agonising pain in his prick as the first tightened her bite. And it was the horror of seeing his penis pulled from
his groin and gripped in the long fang-like canines of the he'd met
less than half an hour before in the street that caused the blood to rush
from his face and his consciousness to slip.
In his last few moments, he was vaguely aware of two sharp-toothed
women, blood streaming from the corners of their lips, take chunks of flesh
out from his stomach, his face, his neck, while what blood wasn't taken
into their mouths to feed their addiction sprayed onto the floor and
mattress to join the congealed scabs of previous victims.
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