I would have been happy to smooch any one of the boys there. It was to be my first kiss after all. After a few moments of twirling around I started to get a bit queasy and stumbled forward. When I finally stopped I felt something in front of me so I leaned forward and planted my mouth on it. I heard the kids behind me suppressing their laughter. I wondered why the person I was kissing seemed to resist my mouth so I pressed harder until the others were screaming and clapping. I removed the blindfold and stared blankly at Julia’s father’s punching bag wet with my saliva. To make matters worse, my stomach revolted from all the twirling and I suddenly threw up all over her basement floor. I was never invited over to another one of Julia’s parties again.
“The game seems pretty straight forward,” Manny said. “We spin the wheel and pick up one of these cards to win favour coupons. You want to go first?”
I was nervous and breathing heavily. I could hear my heart thumping loudly in my ear.
Maybe the game wasn’t a good idea.
Manny seemed calm as he laid out the cards on the board.
I stared at the blindfold and then the vibrator.
Then from the vibrator to the blindfold again.
I grew more anxious.
“Ready?” Manny asked.
The board was fully set up. I nodded, my eyes fixated on the wheel in the girl’s back. I tried to think of a clever decoy so that I could distract Manny long enough to either set the blindfold on fire or accidentally drop it into our personal shredder upstairs.
“I’ll spin first,” Manny said. The white disk in the centre of the board game whirled until it landed on a section labelled Challenge. Manny picked it up and read it aloud. “Blindfold your partner and before the time is up, guess what part of their body they have put in your mouth.”
That damn blindfold!
“What! What does that mean?” I hated how hysterical I sounded.
Then in a split second, my memory raced back to the night of the sex party and I remembered Clarissa’s description of the game.
“This is so much fun for couples. You play the challenge cards in order to win favour coupons that are good for thirty days outside of the game. If your partner is a man then I can assure you every time you’re blindfolded he will try to put his penis in your mouth. So now that you know the answer, you’ll win the challenge for sure!”
Her description had the room of drunks roaring with laughter. I vaguely recalled hoping to cheat in the game by writing “answer = penis” on my order form.
Manny reached for the black silk blindfold and motioned for me to come closer.
I had no choice. The shredder was upstairs and there were no matches in sight. What’s worse, I could only imagine what Manny would say when I backed out of playing after it was my idea.
I leaned in half expecting the blindfold to be one that you can see through or one that you can successfully peak out the bottom of. Instead I saw nothing but blackness as soon as he put it on. Almost instantly, I felt my heart beat faster and my hearing become more acute.
“You ready?” I could make out the sound of him shifting on the chaise and the rustle of what I thought was his shirt coming off. There was the unmistakable sound of his zipper going down and the thud of his pants hitting the floor.
“Open your mouth.” A faint touch of laughter accompanied his instruction.
I suddenly didn’t trust him, feeling the sweat on my lower back begin to mirror the dewy slickness of my palms, I cautiously opened my mouth. Cold air rushed against my tongue. Before I had a chance to think, something was gently placed in my mouth.
Well, I reasoned, it definitely wasn’t his penis. Clarissa was wrong. It was a different kind of hard. I would have tried to explore it with more zest if it were not for the smell I couldn’t quite place. I immediately recoiled making what must have been a horrified face.
“Trust me,” Manny said guiding my head back. I could hear him starting to breathe heavier, the hard knob back in my mouth again. “Try and guess.”
I started to press my tongue against it and assessed that it must be a bone of some sort since it seemed hard under the surface of the skin. I started to suckle it to try and figure out its shape hearing Manny’s breathing getting harder and deeper with each stroke of my tongue.
He seemed to have trouble keeping whatever it was in one place as it kept jerking in and out of my mouth. My mind was racing but I couldn’t think of anything that it might be. Since it obviously wasn’t his penis, there was no harm in me possibly biting it off so I scraped my teeth against it which caused Manny to let out what sounded like a squeal, a deep moan and a gasp all at once. It was a noise I had never heard him make before but it was a decidedly satisfied sound.
I leaned back and tried to think.
Hard and bony = shoulder? No. Nose? No. Toe?
“It’s your - your elbow,” I guessed.
Manny began to giggle between short, shallow breaths. “Open your eyes!”
I removed the blindfold to see him contorted on the chaise, clutching his calf in the air, the sight of his ankle in front of my face still bearing faint lipstick marks from my mouth around it.
“Your ankle?” I threw my hands in the air. “I’d never guess!”
“It’s really erotic,” Manny said in a low rumble. He grabbed me closer to him and gave me a long deep kiss.
Was he turned on by having his ankles sucked? I looked down at his boxers and could see his penis trying to periscope out as if to watch us play the game.
“You like that?” I asked with hesitation. “Having your ankles licked?”
All the times we had been together, and I never licked his ankles. I never even knew that he liked it.
“Okay Lee,” he said. “It’s your turn next before we re-spin.”
“What do you mean?” I asked pulling myself up on my haunches on the chaise.
“Give me the blindfold. Now you put a part of your body in my mouth and I’ll guess.”
“Okay so it’s my turn,” I said out loud hoping to motivate my brain to think of something to do.
Manny smiled and opened his mouth wide in anticipation, the blindfold firmly in place over his eyes. I laughed out loud at the sight of him sitting on the chaise, his tongue flopping forward like a dog in summer heat.
My mind raced. What do I do? Put my elbow in his mouth? Put my ankle in his mouth?
I removed my blouse and pants and prayed for inspiration. I left my lingerie on. My black bra was starting to fray badly at the edges and was held at the base with a safety pin. My faded black control top panties with the elastic escaping slightly from both edges was stretched to its capacity attempting to hold in my heavy dinner.
What if I put my finger in his mouth or my wrist? They both seemed too easy. I felt competitive and wanted to win, to surprise Manny the way he had surprised me. I asked him to ease his head forward to stall for more time.
Impulsively, I placed the inside of my elbow near his mouth, being careful not to get too close to him but close enough to watch his expression. His tongue probed around the gentle curve of my arm causing me to giggle from the ticklish sensation and instantly jump back.
“Sorry, sorry!” I leaned his head forward again putting my arm back up to his mouth. He licked slowly at first and then more rapidly. The sensation started to drive me wild. I wanted to scream, cry and laugh all at once.
“I think it’s your shoulder,” he said tentatively.
“I win!” I said triumphantly. “Open your eyes!”
Manny