Arrival of One
“Please be home right now.” I say to myself as I stumble onto my best friend’s porch and my fist hits the door. I wait a moment and continue to try to catch my breath as I wobble from side to side in muddy clothes. I knock again and nearly fall over. By the time I regain my balance, I hear the door unlock and crack open.
“Who’s ther- Wait, Matt?” Nez pokes his face out from behind the door with a surprised expression.
“Nez, please.” I hunch over as I lean forward against the wall. I look pale even in the dead of night, so I probably look like some kind of ghost. “I need your help, dude.”
Nez looked a bit tired before, so I assume I just woke him up, but now it seems like he’s wide awake. Thankfully, he helps me inside and helps me pull off my muddy shirt and pants before letting me sit down on his couch. I lean back and stare at the ceiling with half open eyes while Nez grabs something from his kitchen. He soon comes back and hands me a water bottle and a snack. All I can do is nod as thanks before scarfing the food and water down like a starving animal.
“Matt? What’s going on?” Nez sits down next to me and tugs his oversized shirt down a little. He must’ve just thrown that on when he got up and is hiding his boxers now, but I’m not sure why he seems so nervous about something I’ve seen before. I don’t remember him looking so feminine either. Maybe I’m just imagining things though. “I thought you moved away since your house is up for sale. Don’t tell me you ran away.”
“Moved? For sale? I…” I pause and lean forward to rest my head in my hands as I try to think. “Mom was acting strange, stranger than usual, but I think she was taking care of Dad since he was sick or something.”
“Yeah, I remember you texting me about that.”
“I think I was having dinner, but everything after that is just a blur.” I lift my head and stare at some of the mud on my arms. “Next thing I knew, I was gasping for air down by the river.”
“The river?! Dude, are you sure you didn’t just hit your head and fall in a puddle?” Nez puts his hand on my shoulder, but his eyes don’t actually seem concerned. “Look, dude, it’s late, you’ve obviously been through a lot, and you’ve been out in the rain for a while. So, you’re probably just confused. How about you take a shower and get some sleep, then we’ll talk more tomorrow, okay? I’ll leave a blanket out here on the couch for you while you take a shower.”
“Yeah, you’re right. Thanks, Nez.” I hesitantly nod and slowly get up to go to the bathroom. I turn on the shower to get the water heated and lean against the counter as I rest my eyes. Although I’m exhausted and extremely tired, I think I hear voices from the other side of the wall, but I can’t really tell what they’re saying since it’s so muffled and the shower is running.
“Matthias is- Moved away suddenly-”
“Mrs. Arion must’ve tried to- Didn’t take enough- Has her own master-”
“The book’s gone- Something else? What can you-”
“Master might- Won’t need the book- Tonight will work-”
I brush off the muffled words as my imagination since Nez is probably just telling Rin that I’ll be staying the night. I then proceed to get in the shower to wash myself off. Afterwards, I dry off and pause to listen to silence. I think that Nez and his sister must’ve gone back to bed and I get ready to do the same. I head back out to the couch to find a blanket waiting for me and I spread it over me as I get comfortable and quickly fall asleep. My dreams are haunted by vague memories of my mother having her affair with a man I never got to see or hear, but Mom’s lustful moans and passionate words are still crystal clear up until that night when she served me dinner with that odd smile. What was I eating that night? I can’t remember nor can I remember what happened afterwards. That smile made me feel uneasy then, but now I feel almost tingly inside. The weirdest thing is that now I feel like I can almost see a shadowy figure standing next to my mother with what might be an arm over her shoulder and a hand groping one of her large breasts.
“Mom’s body looks perfect for making black babies~” A soft voice echoes throughout my dream. A voice unfamiliar to me and yet it feels like I’ve known it my whole life as if it were my own. Something doesn’t feel right though. That doesn’t make any sense to me and I suddenly wake up on Nez’s couch. I quickly look around to make sense of my surroundings since my strange dream left me confused along with an odd feeling that resembles arousal mixed with dread. My heart beats harder and harder as I place my hand on my chest. I feel almost heart broken like when my first crush broke up with me, but there’s also something else that makes this thumping in my chest actually feel good.
“Well look who finally woke up.” Rin leans over me with her oversized hoodie sagging enough for me to see most of her cleavage and she looks into my eyes for a moment. “Jeez, you really are a mess. Well, come on. Get up and I’ll fix ya something to eat.”
I sleepily follow Rin with my eyes as she turns away and walks towards the kitchen. I can’t help but stare at the tattoos wrapping around her arms and legs, but I also notice that she doesn’t appear to be wearing anything else beside her black hoodie. I guess that picture Nez showed me a while back wasn’t edited at all and Rin actually has a bunch of blacked tattoos all over her beautiful body. I start to imagine Rin being a slut for black men like the girls in those videos Nez sent me and it makes my heart throb again.
“She’s so hot, but she’d never give a whiteboi like you any kind of chance~” That mysterious feminine voice passes through my mind as if it’s my own thought and I quickly turn my head to see if there was anyone else in the room. I shake my head and slowly get off the couch to stretch. I pause and panic a little as I look around for my phone since I still had it with me when I woke up by the river, but I needed to dry it off since it was soaked.
“Over here, Dummy!” Rin shouts from the kitchen and shakes a bag of rice with my phone in it. “Figured it needed to dry. Your clothes are in the laundry by the way, so I grabbed some of Nez’s old clothes for you to wear. They’re in the chair.”
“Oh, uh, thanks, Rin.” I pick up the clothes and quickly put them on since I’m beginning to realize how embarrassing it is being mostly naked in front of the girl I like. I find something a little strange though. Nez is a bit smaller than me and, honestly, quite feminine, but his clothes aren’t really that tight. However, that thought soon leaves my mind since I probably just lost some weight or something like that and I proceed to have breakfast with Rin while explaining everything I can remember to her.
“Damn. Sounds like you’ve had it rough.” Rin says that as though it doesn’t surprise her in the slightest and then leans back in her chair. “Not sure what happened to Mrs. Arion, but you’re welcome to stay here for as long as you need.”
“I’m sorry for bothering you guys like this, but thanks again for letting me crash here.” I take a few bites of cereal before continuing. “You don’t mind me staying longer, do you?”
“Dude, I said you’re welcome to stay longer, so you can stay- mmpf~ longer. Jeez, I thought you were more of a man than Nez, but I- mmm~ guess you both get embarrassed easily.”
“Are you okay?” I watch from the other side of the table as Rin blushes and tugs a little on her hoodie. I glance down briefly as I think I feel a soft flick or tap against my hardening five inch penis tucked away in my pants, but nothing’s there to have touched me. I blink a few times when I look back up and see a large shadowy figure leaning over Rin and reaching down across her body.
“Fine! I’m fine.” Her eyes quickly glance up at the shadow as she grins and looks back at me. “Is something wrong? You got enough to eat right?”
“Huh? Y-Yeah. I’m fine too, but I thought I saw something behind you.”
“Oh really?~” Rin tilts her head curiously before twisting in her chair to look behind her. Neither her nor the shadow appear to be affecting each other, so maybe I’m just seeing things. “There’s nothing there. Maybe you’re still a little confused. Nez can sleep next to my bed at night, so go ahead and use his room while you’re here. Get some more rest, alright?”
“O-Okay. I’ll do that. Thanks.” I watch as she nods and gets up before heading to her room while being followed by that fat shadow. Once she closes her door, I turn back and just stare at my cereal for a moment. For some strange reason, I can almost imagine that shadow as an actual person, but the appearance of that person never fully shows up in my mind. I get that same sense of familiarity when I think back to my dream about Mom with a similar shadow standing next to her. The only detail I can figure out is that…
“Both of them are black men~” That mysterious voice finishes my thought as I get the feeling of something gliding along my small bulge. I look down at my crotch to see nothing touching me again, so I shake my head after glancing around to make sure I’m the only one in the room. Once again, I ignore that voice and continue eating my cereal until I finish it and clean up before making my way to Nez’s room since that’s apparently going to be my room while I’m here. On my way to my new bedroom, I pause by Rin’s bedroom door when I hear a muffled noise.
