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Falconer 92<br />

he was sorry that he made my drinks so strong I had passed out.<br />

Then he said I shouldn’t have given him all that money, that he<br />

wasn’t worth it. Then he said he was sorry, that he wanted to give<br />

me a marvelous time for free, and when could we meet. So I knew<br />

he had teased me and stoned me and robbed me, but I wanted<br />

him badly and I said I would be in at about half-past five and why<br />

didn’t he come around then.<br />

“I had four calls to make that day and I made them and I made<br />

three sales, which was good for that territory. I was feeling all right<br />

when I got back to the motel and I had some drinks and he came<br />

in at half-past five and I mixed his drinks this time. He laughed<br />

when I did this but I didn’t say anything about the Mickey. Then<br />

he took off his clothes and folded them neatly on a chair and he<br />

took off my clothes with some assistance from me and kissed me<br />

all over. Then he got a look at himself in the big mirror on the<br />

bathroom door and this was the first time I ever saw a man who<br />

was narcissistic, what they call. One look at himself naked in the<br />

mirror and he couldn’t get away. He couldn’t get enough of it. He<br />

couldn’t tear himself away. So then I figured out my options. I had<br />

cashed a check and I had about sixty dollars in my wallet. I had to<br />

hide this. While he was loving himself I was worried about money.<br />

Then when I saw how deep he was, how really absorbed he was in<br />

the way he looked, I picked my clothes up off the floor and hung<br />

them in the closet. He didn’t notice me, he didn’t see anything but<br />

himself. So there he was, fondling his balls in the mirror, and there<br />

I was in the closet. I took the cash out of my wallet and stuffed it<br />

into the toe of my shoe. So then he finally separated from himself<br />

in the looking glass and joined me on the sofa and loved me up<br />

and when I came I nearly blew my eyeballs out. So then we got<br />

dressed and went out to the Chinese restaurant.<br />

“When I got dressed I had some trouble getting into my shoe with<br />

the sixty dollars in the toe. I had credit cards to pay for dinner.<br />

When we walked to the restaurant he said why are you limping<br />

and I said I wasn’t limping, but I guessed he knew where the

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