Chapter 7:// Catching up

 

They logged on the wifi babesbabesbabes. It was horrible, cheap, routed from a device with no recent updates or security fixes, hidden under a mountain of discarded clothes.

A young man opened the door. He was wearing a bright red lifeguard suit and nothing on top, sweetly tanned muscles all over the place and had loose medium-length golden hair. “Hey bro, heard you were coming out today. Oh man, soz, couldn’t wake up at all, you know? Why didn’t you call?”

“It’s fine,” the user said. “I needed to stretch my legs anyway, too much lying around.”

 

fingerd> Finally! What a cheap slow connection this is… I fingered her.

armd> Ugh… I think you are bugging out or something. This isn’t a female.

 

A stream of social media selfies popped up of a juicy mature woman, posing in hundreds of different places and locations, with lattes, shopping, friends, bags, shoes, all triple filtered as if a toddler had spilt drool on the lens and taken up photography.

 

fingerd> I think you are right. Two fingers at once! What a day!

armd> Heh. Heh. Heh.

 

The user swiped away the stream of silicone boobs and selfies that popped up on his vision and asked, “Do you have company?”

The young man stroke a proud pose and said, “Of course I do.” Then he whispered, emphasising with his hands, “perfect boobies man!”

 

fingerd> Got it! This man is amazing.jimmy@poseidonsealines.com and he has recently changed his relationship status to “in a relationship” with petridi.bibi@aphroditecosmetics.com

 

A stream of last night’s photos that the “couple” had uploaded last night became the digital ghost of the party. The user looked around the living room and could only see the aftermath, but the online evidence completed the picture just nicely. Drugs, thongs, booze, fondling in various positions and selfie taking for two. Lots and lots of selfies for two. The young/old couple had the body and the social media following to attract hundreds of likes and shares from lonely, envious people. It was kinda artistic in a certain way.

“Yeah, I can see that,” the user said and swiped it away.

 

walkmand> Oh don’t! Hey, did you cache any of that?

parrotd> How many times has amazing.jimmy@poseidonsealines.com been coupled anyway?

httpd> He has changed his relationship status to “in a relationship” and back to single again 67 times.

armd> Busy guy.

 

“She’s asleep. Not to brag, but I got stamina. Come on in,” amazing.jimmy@poseidonsealines.com said and threw some pizza boxes on the floor to clean up a spot in the sofa.

The user checked carefully for stains before sitting down.

Amazing Jimmy, that was his name, brought a couple of cold beers from the fridge. It was the only thing set on his priority list for the smart fridge’s automatic ordering, so he never ran out. He had ran out a few times to be honest, but he had to really, really try and then had to belch really, really loud. He had legally changed his surname because of the old Amazing Spiderman comics that he’d dug up in his dad’s old comicbook subscription service. He thought it would help bring in the girls. Not that he needed any real help in that matter as he was a lifeguard, working in the popular Greek islands during the summer and at an expensive 5 star hotel’s heated swimming pool during the winter. Jimmy had a year-long suntan and the body male swimsuit models only wished they had. Loose hair and a dentist’s masterpiece of a smile brought in the girls alright.

It wasn’t uncommon for ladies to drown on purpose just to be saved by Jimmy.

He wasn’t very bright, but he was a good friend.

“Hey, have you seen that snake charmer next street? Really weird guy. He has a cobra. A big one,” the user said.

Jimmy leaned out the window, but the snake charmer was around the corner so he couldn’t see. “Really bro? How awesome is that? We should check it out with Bibi when she wakes up.

“So, who’s the new girl,” the user said mocking his own choice of words.

“Tease all you like bro, this lady, is like, experienced man,” said Jimmy, bobbing his head up and down. “Like, years of experience, ya get my drift?”

“She looks damn fine for her age. Where did you meet?”

“At work. By the pool. You know how it is, she was bathing nearby, we chatted, then got a drink, one thing led to another…”

“I don’t know how it is, honestly. Never happened to me before. I usually have to chase them with a harpoon or something.”

“Ya just gotta smile more ofter bro,” Jimmy said and flashed his amazing smile. “Anyway, she’s some bigshot manager or something. She really likes me. Like, really-really likes me. She told me she wants me to go with her to her niece in France or something.”

“Nice. Nikaia in Greek. It’s a gorgeous Mediterranean city in France,” the user corrected his friend, but there wasn’t any trace of mockery in his voice.

Jimmy the Amazing opened his can of beer and recalled his conversation with Bibi, staring idly. He pointed at the user and sipped deep. “Yeah. Yeah, that makes more sense now that you mention it. Nice the city. Do they have lifeguards there? They must have, right?” He whispered, “she’s loaded bro. Like millionaire. Like a one with a million after it.”

The user rubbed his chin and said wearily, “Now that you mention it, I have a favour to ask…”

He told his friend about the financial situation he was in, and that he would show up to work tomorrow morning and beg for a shift at the construction site. Jimmy had already visited him at the clinic and had seen the extend of the damage to his body, there was no need to embellish things at all. He was in no better financial condition than Leo, but the weekend was still far away so he wouldn’t have blown it all on partying and booze yet.

“Sure thing man, whatevs. I’m here for you,” amazing.jimmy@poseidonsealines.com said and rubbed his strong chin.

He went dead serious. “There is a price though. I can’t just hand you the money, you gotta earn it for yourself.”