Monday Morning Spanish Fuck
This is Siobhan:
Love the area I live in. It’s a cacophony of the rich and poor, all kicking their heels in the same places and as much of a representation of the many different faces of this city as you will get.
Early mornings are my favourite. Even when I am not working, I will get up early and venture out into this melee of soceity and bask in all of its endearment.
I come to the end of my street and turn onto the Portobello Road. There’s a post office on the corner, where the infirm and generally useless queue for government handouts every Monday morning. You can set your watches by the agitated looks on their faces as the minutes tick closer and closer to 8am. Before this hour on a weekday, the street is a deserted stank of the night before. The subtle smell of urine catches the back of your throat and mixes there with the warm hue and smell of baked goods from the Greggs. When I am down or have my monthly stomach cramps, I nick in for a sausage roll and bask in the London chill as the delicate pastry melts on my tongue and the flakes fall onto my chest. I must be good today though. Then there’s the imported Spanish coffee percolating at the Cafe Garcia. I can hear the girls yapping in their mother tongue as I approach the ever-sprawling business. If you are lucky and the forecast is good, you will find one of the regular salt of the earths setting up a fruit and veg stall. There’s that rough blonde lady that’s here all the time and sets up outside Tesco’s, attempting bravely to compete with their low, low prices.
The trendy girls in their ballet flats wait for their boss outside the American Apparel store waiting to start their working day. As I walk past, I catch them discussing hedge funds and how they are doing on the stock market. The priviledged few who get to live here either slam their doors proudly and dash off to the tube in their Armani suits or lounge around the alfresco tables in their board shorts and flip flops, laden with broadsheets that flap in the wind. The trust-funded yawn in contemplation at what possibly they could do with their day.
Then there are the other regular sights I see. The girl with Downs who perches at the same table outside the Cafe Nero and sits on a bottle of Coke for hours, just watching the world go by and chuckling to herself. The film producers perusing over scripts outside Progresso on the corner of Colville Terrace. They occasionally glance up hoping to discover the next English rose and always blink in amazement when I glide past with my red hair and exposed tattoos.
When I do go as far as the tube up the road to Notting Hill Gate, I like to stop at Kingsland, the Edwardian butchers to look at the skinned game and award winning homemade sausages. Occasionally when I am feeling flushed, I will buy six for later to make with my prized Spring Onion and Cheddar Mashed Potato for Homme and Femme’s dinner. Today I notice that they have rare breed beef and salt marsh lamb from Suffolk, whatever that is. I’m sure locals don’t care, they just shop their for the prestige, like I secretly do.
If I time it right, I get to pass the cute black girl further up the road, as I pass the indoor antique markets. She wears designer bifocals and always smells quite delicious. I always want to stop her and ask her where she got her eyewear and perfume but there’s this certain unwritten etiquette about London that seems to prevent you from being nice to others in the street. Instead, I smile with polite recognition instead.
Back down the street as I then pass the Cafe Garcia, I catch the eye of a rather rugged latin face in a fitted grey sweater idly daydreaming out of the window as I pass. He sees me and there’s that haunted look in his eyes as we make contact that men get when they realise that they have taken a split second too long in capturing a woman’s interest. I give him a smile and look down innocently. I glance back seconds later to see him step out into the street and turn my way. A second glance ensures that he is indeed following me. He seems to have changed his mind about that particular establishment’s wares and has decided to look for something tastier, I think to myself. I don’t want to panic him or make him feel like a pest so I turn and give him an encouraging smile.
He’s putty in my hands now, of course. I decide to tease him a little and stop for a moment and look at some shoes in a window. Out of the corner of my eye, I see him stop and he doesn’t quite know what to do with himself. I chuckle to myself and carry on and quickly dart into the Coffee Plant, my regular coffee stop.
I feel him behind me as I queue for my organic tea with soya milk. I place my order and glance to one side. He’s looking awkwardly up at the menu.
“It’s all fair trade... and really good.” I purr.
“I saw you back there...” he started.
“I noticed.” I interrupted playfully. He offers to pay for my tea and orders some Aribica. He looks down at my leg and comments on my tattoo.
“It’s new...” I tell him, looking down myself at the celtic sprawl on my thigh.
“I have lots..” I say as I sip and blow the heat from the edge of my cup. We stand awkwardly and he smiles down at me. He’s well over six feet and well built. He’s about the same size as Johnson but not as defined. I guess he’s always loved his mother’s cooking like all latin sons do. I think what he would look like naked. I prefer shorter slim guys like Homme but I start to imagine what his performance would be like as he explains what he does when I ask.
He and his brother are architects and are advising on a local development.
“I pass that every day. It’s noisy.” I kid.
He spends an acceptable amount of time talking to my chest but not too much and I flirt and touch his arm. As he talks about his family in Madrid, he places his hand on the small of my back where my shorts sit a few times and each time I move into his hand. He takes the hint and asks me if I am on my way to work. I shake my head innocently. He asks me in his sexy broken English whether I would like to come and see his studio. It’s nearby and has a roof terrace, apparently. He suggests we could get a little sun.
I assume that’s Spanish for ‘fuck me on his sun lounger’, but I could be wrong. Whatever he’s after, he’s cute. He has a nice body. I’m horny. I don’t want to get involved with anyone and neither (I suspect) does he. Let’s see what Spanish has got between his legs, have half an hour of fun and go about with the rest of my day.
“Come to my place.” I counter. “I have a few things to do.”
“Do you live on your own?” he wonders. I shake my head.
“My boyfriend is at home. He’ll be going out in a few hours though.”
He laughed. “Won’t mind me being there?”
I sipped my coffee seductively. This is the fun bit, I think to myself.
“No, he’ll still be in bed... with his wife.”
“His wife? You said he was your boyfriend....”
I nodded.
“Does she... know... that you having an affair with him?”
Should I break it to him? I think I should. Best to get it out of the way, I find.
“I’m not having an affair with him... but I am in a relationship with the both of them.”
You could bottle the intrigue and naugty glee on his face, bottle it and sell it on the market at a huge profit.