He picks up my chart and looks at me with a friendly smile.“You might want to take it easy with the sex for a day or so.Other than that you’re good, see you at your next visit.”
I barely maintain eye contact when I say, “Okay, bye.”Glad this crisis is over.I get off the table and put my clothes back on.
The only thing is, I still have to tell Nick.How am I going to do that without him blowing up at me for not telling him in the first place?You know what?The most important thing is the baby is fine.I’ll figure out a way to tell him, I have to leave to meet up with Ava at the house.We were supposed to go out, but when my appointment changed, I couldn’t make it.I didn’t tell Ava about my appointment either, because I didn’t want her to be an accessory after the fact.She’s going to tell me about the crazy date she went on last night.
“What?What is a golden shower?”I ask Ava, putting my hair up in a ponytail as I’m sitting on the couch.
“It’s not what you think.You will not be getting showered with gold.”
“What is it?”
“As I found out, it’s when you pee on a guy to get them off.”
“Are you for real?”I say to Ava, uncertain of whether she’s joking or not.
“I’m smiling, but I’m dead serious, Cat.Not only does he like to receive the gift, he likes to give a golden spray at times.”She pulls her lips together, one of her dark eyebrows raising over her dark blue eyes.
“He asked you to let him do that to you?Did you?”
“What do I look like?I wouldn’t piss on myself for a hundred.As soon as he said that I said, ‘check please!’and got the hell up out of there.”
“People are really into being peed on?”
“Apparently there’s a market for it.I mean, I’m not knocking anyone’s kink, but that’s not for me.That’s not first-date conversation, either.”
“No, it’s not.That’s something you want to work in after a year or two of dating.”
“Exactly, even then it would be like, whaaat!”
“You just got up and left him there?”
“No, I finished my meal.An unusual fetish is no reason to leave a good four-course soft-shell crab meal behind.I told him I had to go to the bathroom to pee.”
“Why did you say you had to pee?”
“What?I’m sure he didn’t mind, it should have made him happy knowing I could perform.He probably wanted to come with me so I could shower him down, hot and wet.”
I make a face and say, “Eww,” and we both laugh.
“When I came back, I told him he seemed like a nice guy but I can’t have anyone spraying me with piss.”
We’re laughing when Nick walks in the room and asks what’s so funny.Too bad I don’t realize he’s not smiling.
Cat
He says hello to Avaand gives me a kiss on the cheek.Still no smile.Why is he so serious?Surely he doesn’t know about me going to the doctor.He walks out of the living room without saying anything.Ava and I send each other looks and I shrug.
“What’s wrong with him?”Ava says under her breath.
“I don’t know.Maybe he had a bad day in court.”We go in the kitchen, and he’s sitting at the table with a drink in his hand.I lean against the table beside him.
“Had a bad day?”
He puts the bottle down and folds his hand on the table, still not looking at me.“You know what I hate?”
“What?”
“When a client is not completely honest with me.We both know you’re guilty.By withholding information from me, you’re working against me.You don’t know how that pisses me off.”
