Daniel Sada - Almost Never

His arrival at the house of rustic beauty. His silent mother, big like him, wanting to embrace, let us say, a distress: and: the parry: such scoundrelly persistence. Right away Demetrio’s retreat so he could pull himself together. There was noise in his head and twisted (red) threads, so to speak: confusion, unmitigated, or one obstacle after another: intrinsic, or — what the hell were they? Some kind of logjam lay in wait for this semisinful man, a logjam that threatened to drown him in one single and frantic obsession: sex, at any cost: once, again, then again and again, recondite recycling. However, when he saw all those saints in his room, porcelain beings that seemed to grow bigger the longer he watched them, he muttered this: “Demetrio” is synonymous with “nobody’s fucking me.” And he fell asleep. His dream did him no favors. Mireya appeared, as if against her own will, shining from the jewels that bedecked her. She was the queen of the red-light district in Saltillo, where he found himself. When she saw him she said in a malicious voice: Well, well, I finally find you … You might like to know that your daughter is twenty years old —had that much time passed? — She’s studying medicine at the best university in Monterrey. I pay for her studies with my work as a high-class prostitute. What do you think about that? Now, get out of here, because if you don’t, I’ll have my men tear you to pieces. Go away! You’re a pathetic fool! Demetrio woke up with even more encephalitic din. He began palpating his temples with his fingertips, trying to soothe the internal whir. He had meager success. Little by little — thank God! — the noise went elsewhere.

What the big guy needed was a long and deep cleansing, and that’s what he got. The lathering had to be like an incursion into territory where all memories, good and bad alike, become futile. More and more beneficial suds. An inkling of a new beginning where it would be ordained that he could do whatever the hell he wanted, as long as he acted strategically, per the reigning paranoia, whenever he acted boldly. It had been a good idea to get rid of the brunette, but — Renata? that haughty yet suffering decency … hmmm … let her suffer; may her error ramify; this was the already prodigious and accepted revenge of a macho and now let’s turn to something else … See-through-sex; provocation-sex; struggle-sex. So many gradations of falsity that would soon become achievements. Then came what was not desirable: he emerged resplendent and perfumed, and his mother stood in the main hallway and intercepted him and — what do you think she said? Her indiscretion erupted … She was in such a state of anxiety …

“Demetrio, tell me please if you sinned while you were gone.”

“Yes, indeed I did.”

“How do you feel?”

“Look, Mama, leave me alone, or I’ll go away and never come back.”

“It’s just that I’m worried …”

“Well, you needn’t be, because I’ve been an adult for a long time … What’s more, I’ll tell you right now I’m going to keep on sinning … I’m very fond of all and any sins.”

How could the lady reproach him? She understood, finally, about him being an adult: it’s about time! and the irremediable strains of maturity: his! he was beginning to rot, whereas she was better off positioning her tearful self in an unfamiliar weepy dimension, because she wept in front of Demetrio: her apron — absorbent? A shudder that hearkened back to when she rocked her only male offspring in a pure white cradle: a pink baby, a sleeping peacock, who then became an incorrigible toddler: O avid restlessness, that then led to him studying to be an agronomist, as his father had recommended, and now, tough luck! to have to see him become a flagrant sinner who walked out without kissing her good-bye on the cheek as he uttered a bitter sentence: I’m going to Torreón. I like the cathouses there. I’m going to sin. Hasty and contemptuous communication. And the pickup and the gasoline: everything ready, of course, for … He left whistling, he wanted to sing, but — what song? He didn’t know all the lyrics of a single one. So, random fragments, O uproarious crooning! or a feeling of boldness to peel off layers of doubt, don layers of enthusiasm: free and delightful swaying over the course of miles … Happiness is always fortuitous …

Let’s watch his relapse: his arrival at Los Laureles, because he wanted to get it on with those impressive concubines: that Cirila and that Begoña, both unforgettable. Herewith the arrangement: in order to get them to come to his table, Demetrio would have to pay an exorbitant sum (a new rule) to a man with a very flat Carmelite hairdo (that is, with a part down the middle). However, the big guy refused to pay, arguing that it was very bad for him to get drunk: that he was not an alcoholic; he couldn’t tolerate all that nausea and vomiting; and the most whimsical: that alcohol would prevent him from having a decisive erection, to which the man with the very well-groomed do replied that if he wanted only sex he had to pay triple the amount: fifty pesos for each female: o-ho! such a sum was almost highway robbery, or maybe a splendidly pleasant altitude he’d have to reach, for at stake was, let us call it, an irresistible otherness, and Demetrio said, okay, I’ll go for it! Hence the pay now, play later, though the “play” part required a brief wait, whereas the pay became a proud display of bills: an insolent Demetrio under the glow of multicolored lights: mistake … to excess. The brief delay led to a further complication: the man with the hairdo called Cirila and Begoña over and they hid behind a violet curtain. The last thing he said to them was this:

“You’re going with that client from before. The guy is loaded, so you know what to do.”

Yes: they promised great things (per instructions) and, right from the start: cloying affection, handy for softening up the pseudo superman; a devilish start that led to a quick disrobing behind closed doors: a naked trio who began to eagerly grope each other … If only we could see the bare-assed outlines … Cirila gave the commands; the other played the role of the compliant slave: that is: let’s see … Begoña was the first to practice fellatio, which started at the client’s (unwashed) testicles: then crept up slowly to the glans by dint of tongue action, then the risings and fallings that began at a very precise speed, while the other, in corroboration, planted a big kiss on the lips of the aforementioned, who experienced, how could he not! a continuous nuanced bubbling throughout his entire body. Next, Begoña, following the instructions Cirila gave via hand signals, climbed on top of, what we might call, the murder victim, so he could penetrate her, followed by a slow trot on horseback. That part was easy and, man, what a delight! In addition the kissing in perfectly syncopated rhythm continued, a sublime lark conducted by the director’s right index finger. Let us here note that a hasty ejaculation by the big guy would have been quite inconvenient, for it would have spoiled their well-planned and executed plot. So: no increase in pleasure, instead somewhat extended endurance, though not in ascent, or let’s call it an opportunistic (ahem) “petty elongation,” or, to wit, the two managed to get Demetrio to close his eyes and that was when Begoña announced she was going to the bathroom for a minute to pee. The pleasure continued full speed ahead because Cirila immediately climbed on top and inserted him into her, and her movements were so beguiling and rhythmic (much better than Begoña’s) that the big guy didn’t even think of opening his eyes. Quite clever, this trip to the bathroom: a fucking foil, for Begoña was rifling through Demetrio’s pants — could you have guessed? — : that bare-assed babe swiftly removed the man’s well-endowed wallet and dropped it into her handbag. Then the sinful kissing continued: a kiss that reopened the mouth of the man who used to be rich: she surpassed the other, in this respect, so we are now talking about sexual plenitude: the magma of the savage — and therefore ecstatic — interlacing. Then came the semenic eruption in Cirila’s lubricated insides. Whereby we can assert that Demetrio had never before experienced such almost otherworldly pleasure. The consummation waned and the sinner, dazed, was exhausted, but the concubines ordered him to get dressed right away: We’re leaving. And you, my love, can’t stay in the room alone. In consequence: a vibrant rush, the departure of the trembling trio. On the way to the salon the bewildered client assured them he would return the following day: I want to do tomorrow what we did today. I loved it! But the concubines scurried away between the scarlet curtain panels. They said neither thank you nor good-bye. When Demetrio reached the room where the music played, the man with the Carmelite hairdo intercepted him and was persuasive in the following way: