Valentine Blues - Season 1 - Episode 10

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Valentine Blues - Season 1 - Episode 10

”That should be done in the confines of a home, married man and wife, that is the aim not among two strangers”
Cupid scoffs ”Well it has happened already.”

”Indeed it has”
”What do I do?”
”You can do nothing. Now… how do you know when there is love between this two?”
”Well… I shot the arrow of love and they came together, that is love.. is it not?”
”Wrong! Love is not borne out of physical needs Cupid, it is much more than that. Now, they have soiled their thoughts… and minds and body…do you think it would be easy to think clearly to know if there is love? No. Now…you cannot really tell if there is love ..”
”Now what?”
”Now… you can only let it play out to the end”

”So… I let them?”
”They are your problem now… does this scar or make them? it would be all on you. What happens to them individually from here on out is left to them… how they treat this is left to them. You opened the door… now you watch them swim through it, whether they drown or reach shore… is left to them ”
”What do you mean is left to them?”
Silence…

”Father? Father?”
Silence.
Cupid pouts ”I just put a little spice” He drew cloud circles a small frown on his face.
”Psst! Cupid…now is the time you need my help?”

”Oh Bugger off Jesus..”

The cloud rumbles…
Cupid frowns at Jesus’s rumbling laughter, he turns away and looks below, back into the room ”You both better fall in love or else, Pops is gonna have my tush and feed it to heavenly rats”

*****

”You go first” Darren tells her
”No, you go first!!” Annalise says.
They are staring at each other.
The silence stretches into minutes.
”Okay this is awkward!” Annalise states
”Yes, very!!” Darren runs a hand over his face. ”I am sorry, about last night. I mean… I was drunk, you were drunk and… well… we were kinda aware of what we did and… I am sure we weren’t in our sane mind, well… I was quite aware and-”
”I … was aware too and stuff and well, it’s just sex right. Big deal?”

”Yes, No… I mean it’s not a big deal and it’s just sex and… Pfft!!” He scoffs.
They stare at each other .
”I should get dressed and-” Annalise began.

”Yeah, me too..work..you know that thing one does on a daily and stuff and..–”
”Yeah!!”
They get dressed.
”So..erm..nice meeting you Darren?” She stretches her hand to his, he eyes it briefly and then takes it in his.
”Darren Bloom.” Darren says ”And you too..Annalise?”

”Penelope Bruce”
”Annalise Penelope Bruce” She states.
”Do we hug or something?”
”I guess!!”
They slowly go into each other’s arms and then they hug, pulling away they stare at each other. Lingering looks… they go back into each other’s arm again as they kiss, kicking off cloths and sinking back into the bed and m0an!ng into each other’s mouth. They make love again.
*****
”Cupid!!!!!!”
Cupid grabs his arrows and runs ”Tell Pops you saw me Angel Gab and I will puke into your holy tea and fart in your holy grail.” He is seen tush showing as he runs through the clouds passing Angel Gabriel who is holding unto a very drunk Angel Micheal and hiding.
”You forget that I am the all seeing God, you cannot hide from the I AM! Cupid!!!” The thunder claps.
Cupid sinks deeper into the clouds. ”Maybe I should take a long vacation on earth” He muses.
*****
”Why are you whispering?’ Lucy speaks into the phone.
”Because I think I had sex with the stranger again. I am officially a sluttttttt !!” she wails silently into the phone, Lucy bursts out laughing ”Oh I should meet this dude, twice in less than twenty-four hours? That sex must have been amazing.
”Shut up!!!” Annalise sniffs.
Lucy laughs ”Well, I will give you an advice, if you don’t want there to be a third, leave there and besides, you need to get here before the boss shows up, you are officially an hour later and your vacation ended three hours earlier.”
Annalise sobs biting her lips
”Are you crying?”
”No, no tears are coming out but I am trying to?”
Lucy laughs ”Tell me something.Is he hot?”
Annalise blushes ”Well..yes!
”Fine?”
”Beautiful man if I am being completely honest!”
”So… you had a great valentine after all and get your butt here, another round of sex would make you a s--t, officially with the capital ”H”. ”
”Okay okay”
”And, just in case you got an inch, take his number”
”I wouldn’t. In fact, this is the first and last time I am ever letting a total stranger sleep with me. You think I want to see him again?”
”Well….”
”Well nothing!”

”Okay. You never know, it might be the start of something new… and years from now it would be you giving an inspirational talk on ” How I found my one true love on valentine’s day after my fiance left to go marry his sweetheart!!”

”Bleh!!!”
”See you soon”
”Yeah!!”

****

Darren watches her come out of the bathroom dressed. ”I think it is less awkward” He says with a half smile.
”Yeah, I suppose. I have to get home and get to work”
”Me too.”

He opens the door for her and they walk quietly down, taking the elevator, saying nothing to each other.
Outside, he flags a taxi.

”Can I buy you dinner sometime?”
She shakes her head ”I don’t think so?”
”Why not?”

”Well, because I don’t think we would ever see each other again and I do not think there is need to. It was fun, this was… but… I don’t think there is need for anything else”
”Sure” He nods ”You are right. I just felt, it would kinda feel awkward to path like that”
She smiles as a taxi pulls to a stop, she goes to it ”Bye Darren.”
”Bye Annalise”

He watches her fade away, he stops a taxi and heads home.

*****

”So that is how my day went” Darren says shutting down his system and grabbing his briefcase. ”Why are we still talking about this?”

”Lack of anything else to talk about aside work. So you didn’t get a number?”
”No”

”Why not?”
”She refused dinner, and I think that was for the best. I mean, it was a frigging one night stand”

”An amazing two-times-sex-stand you mean?”
”Yes, amazing but reality sets in bro, and besides to what end anyways. I was suffering from a broken heart and so was she. We were two miserable people who found company in our arms. That is it. She left, I did too. That is it. No hard feelings, no grudges just two strangers who needed that release and spur of the moment to forget about our pain, and we did. It’s been two months man, and I don’t feel that pain from my Ex anymore. In fact, she made me forget her briefly and … it was good. Now I am great. Work is perfect. I have no time for girls and sinking into thighs. That was a one time thing, not planned but it happened, but that is it.”
”I see, well, you are one lucky dude, wish I had me some valentine stand” His friend Tom laughs

”I would tell your wife”
”Heh!! She wouldn’t believe you. Hey, remember, the Grill’s place this Saturday for her birthday. It’s a date night stroke birthday bash and a present for the wife, else she would be mad. Come with a plus one too, not same sex” Tom is heading out of his office.

”I am my own plus one Tom. And I am not coming with a same sex, just another creature.” Darren calls back.
”No dogs allowed”
Darren laughs. ”I have a cat?”

”We have cat eaters” Tom throws over his shoulders. They laugh.

In another minute, Darren is heading home. He stops by to get groceries for his house.
”Hi!!’ he smiles at the attendant at the cashier stand while he pays for his item.
*****