The drive home seemed to take forever. His apartment was pitch black, blackout shades on every window, and he tossed aside his various protective accessories in irritation. They were all left in a pile in a chair he never used, on top of school paperwork and junk mail. He went straight to the fridge, pulling out a blood bag and sinking his teeth directly into it.
His relief was practically immediate. He sank to the floor, sitting on the tile with his back against the cupboard as he sucked it dry. It was always better to err on the side of too little rather than too much, but it was still obnoxious as hell when it happened. And this was the first time he'd done something this stupid. Bad reaction to a dopamine shortage and the presence of an attractive woman.
He'd feel better after sleeping. Less like his life had taken a sudden and unexpected downward spiral. He tossed out the empty blood bag, stripped and discarded his clothing on the floor as he climbed into the shower. He still smelled like sex. He still smelled like her. He liked it and hated it all at once. He liked it better when the smell was on her, when she was on him. He'd fed, but he wanted more. He wanted hers. He growled in irritation as he scrubbed hard at his skin.
Everything would level out after he slept.
He lay in bed for a while, unable to sleep, slightly buzzed still from feeding. Maybe he really should find porn? Maybe that would help. Maybe that would keep him away from real women. Except that he didn't actually like the majority of porn they made these days. All unpleasant violence and painful positions and closeups on genitals. He liked it better when they'd been… cute. Cute smiles and pretty poses.
God, he really was old.
Eventually, after a great deal of trial and error and horrifying results, he figured out that the keywords he was looking for were 'alt pinup'. That didn't help, though, when he just kept imagining what the might look like with green hair. What Veronica might look like if she posed like that.
Problem: not remotely solved.
Michael set aside his phone, disconsolate, and hoped that he'd wake to find things better.
He… sort of did. The anxiety was gone, anyway. It all felt very distant, like something he'd imagined more than a real thing that happened. He yawned, padding out of his bedroom in his boxers to find his laptop. He threw on a Freddie and the Hitchhikers album before sinking into his couch, resting the laptop on his knee to check his email.
Oh. Good. She'd sent the essay. As well as her number. He set the essay to print, then set aside his laptop, finding a pen to make notes while he read it over breakfast.
Not a real breakfast. Just coconut water. But it kind of made him feel better, anyway.
When he'd finished both he scanned it back in to a PDF to email back to her, because he was 58 and what the hell did anyone expect. Of course he was the guy who printed things out, scanned them, and sent them in an improperly formatted PDF with all the pages upside-down. At least his handwriting was legible. Mostly notes on additional citations and various CYA disclaimers she'd missed before extrapolations. He'd used, as always, a pink highlighter on passages he particularly liked. Not everyone was aware of the pink highlighter, because not many people wrote things he particularly liked. Otherwise he likely would have gotten significantly more shit about the hot pink highlighter.
He put on pants before he called her, because his phone had a camera and he was deeply paranoid about accidentally sending someone a picture of his dick. Phones were confusing. Mistakes could be made. He recalled at the last minute that he probably ought to turn off his record player, because otherwise that might be… awkward. More awkward than this whole affair already was.
His relief was practically immediate. He sank to the floor, sitting on the tile with his back against the cupboard as he sucked it dry. It was always better to err on the side of too little rather than too much, but it was still obnoxious as hell when it happened. And this was the first time he'd done something this stupid. Bad reaction to a dopamine shortage and the presence of an attractive woman.
He'd feel better after sleeping. Less like his life had taken a sudden and unexpected downward spiral. He tossed out the empty blood bag, stripped and discarded his clothing on the floor as he climbed into the shower. He still smelled like sex. He still smelled like her. He liked it and hated it all at once. He liked it better when the smell was on her, when she was on him. He'd fed, but he wanted more. He wanted hers. He growled in irritation as he scrubbed hard at his skin.
Everything would level out after he slept.
He lay in bed for a while, unable to sleep, slightly buzzed still from feeding. Maybe he really should find porn? Maybe that would help. Maybe that would keep him away from real women. Except that he didn't actually like the majority of porn they made these days. All unpleasant violence and painful positions and closeups on genitals. He liked it better when they'd been… cute. Cute smiles and pretty poses.
God, he really was old.
Eventually, after a great deal of trial and error and horrifying results, he figured out that the keywords he was looking for were 'alt pinup'. That didn't help, though, when he just kept imagining what the might look like with green hair. What Veronica might look like if she posed like that.
Problem: not remotely solved.
Michael set aside his phone, disconsolate, and hoped that he'd wake to find things better.
He… sort of did. The anxiety was gone, anyway. It all felt very distant, like something he'd imagined more than a real thing that happened. He yawned, padding out of his bedroom in his boxers to find his laptop. He threw on a Freddie and the Hitchhikers album before sinking into his couch, resting the laptop on his knee to check his email.
Oh. Good. She'd sent the essay. As well as her number. He set the essay to print, then set aside his laptop, finding a pen to make notes while he read it over breakfast.
Not a real breakfast. Just coconut water. But it kind of made him feel better, anyway.
When he'd finished both he scanned it back in to a PDF to email back to her, because he was 58 and what the hell did anyone expect. Of course he was the guy who printed things out, scanned them, and sent them in an improperly formatted PDF with all the pages upside-down. At least his handwriting was legible. Mostly notes on additional citations and various CYA disclaimers she'd missed before extrapolations. He'd used, as always, a pink highlighter on passages he particularly liked. Not everyone was aware of the pink highlighter, because not many people wrote things he particularly liked. Otherwise he likely would have gotten significantly more shit about the hot pink highlighter.
He put on pants before he called her, because his phone had a camera and he was deeply paranoid about accidentally sending someone a picture of his dick. Phones were confusing. Mistakes could be made. He recalled at the last minute that he probably ought to turn off his record player, because otherwise that might be… awkward. More awkward than this whole affair already was.
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