2 comments/ 23889 views/ 7 favorites Developers Conference By: JorisKHuysmans "Hey, don't tell me CisQuent is sending its star coder," a voice said behind me. I turned around and it was Bryan from NavMet, who I'd hung out with for two previous years at the Developer Conference. He turned to a short, round woman with curly black hair next to him, maybe Mexican or something. "Rick, this is Natalia. Rick's the only guy who knows anything at CisQuent." "Totally true," I said, and shook her hand. "This your first time at this clusterfrack?" "She's the newbie," Bryan said. "We'll initiate her into the secret handshakes and all that later." "Ooh, it's like I'm being allowed in the boys' club!" she said sarcastically. "First secret of boys' club, there's absolutely nothing exciting about boys' club," I said as I fished out a business card for her, and she laughed. We continued chit-chatting about the conference for a few minutes, but I was preoccupied by thinking how true what I'd just said was. Fact was, I'd enjoyed the conference in past years but this year's was looking like a tough slog in a lot of ways. First, here I was in a hotel conference center in Cleveland for two weeks straight. In past years I'd managed to get away for only a week, but for some reason my bosses sent me for two weeks this year, which should have been a perk but somehow left me uneasy. And, wondering what the hell you do in Cleveland for two weeks. Day 1, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Day 2... wonder what the hell you do in Cleveland for two weeks. Second was, it just wasn't that good a time to be gone for two weeks from home, either. Melissa and I were not in a good phase of our relationship. I guess you don't think about your relationship being in a "phase" at all except when you're not in a good one, but that's where we were. We couldn't seem to talk to each other without it blowing up. I felt like she was bored with me and there was nothing I could do to change that. Maybe she felt the same way about me when she tried to talk to me. But I was here and I had to take things as they were. At least Bryan was here, we always had a good time hanging out together. We'd see if that stayed true for two whole weeks. * * * A presenter from Caramba! was giving a presentation on their end-to-end e-commerce platform development tools. By conference standards, he clearly imagined himself a rock star, dressed flashily and working little double-entendres into his presentation. Suddenly my phone buzzed with a message. i didn't know elvis was going 2 be at this confab I didn't recognize the number it came from and as I looked up, trying to think who it might be, I saw Natalia next to Bryan, looking back at me and smiling. I typed back: yeah, clay is a hunka hunka burnin code She laughed, and held up a thumb to say, good one. * * * We met up for lunch and dinner nearly every day, Bryan, Natalia and I. Mostly we just chit-chatted about the programs and the presenters, who tended to fall into two categories-- droners, and wannabe comedians. It got us through the days and evenings, and we became good friends, bonding over our boredom at being held captive in a hotel in Cleveland. Which was good, because when the evening was over and I returned to my room, it was always a bit glum. Not least because Melissa didn't return my calls. I don't mean that she was avoiding me; just that we never seemed to match up. I'd call her, she wasn't there, she'd send me a text during dinner, then she wouldn't answer when I called late at night. The text was nothing more personal than telling me that my mother called, or that the car needed an emission check when I got back. I'd put on HBO or something, or surf for porn, and then go to sleep alone in a very big, very empty bed. In a hotel, in Cleveland. * * * "We meeting up tonight?" I asked Bryan on Friday. "'Fraid not," he said. "I actually have to head back tonight. We have a presentation on Monday and I have to go help them out all weekend." "That sucks," I said, but I didn't really mean that it sucked for him. The conference would be dead from Saturday afternoon until Monday— Cleveland and me for the whole weekend. Could it get any worse, short of an accident involving farm equipment? I was glum through the rest of the day. I found a movie at a nearby mall to go to; that was going to be my big Friday night excitement. Maybe dinner at Bob Evans, this being Ohio, a state where by law there had to be a Bob Evans every square mile. I was heading out the door when I saw Natalia chatting up a couple of other people. It hadn't even occurred to me that she might not be going back with Bryan. "You're still here?" I asked. "Looks that way," she said. "What are you up to?" "I was going to walk to the mall and catch a movie," I said. One of the women she was with kind of gave her a pointed look and she shrugged sheepishly and said "Sorry! This is Rick from CisQuent, and these are my friends Betty and Kaitlin. We were going to go get Thai food, do you want to come with us?" I sized up the situation. I was pretty sure Betty and Kaitlin, who were kind of punked out, were a couple. That meant they were probably okay with my not being invited along. "Oh, that's okay, I--" "Oh come on, don't be a dud," Betty said to my surprise. "What else are you going to do in Cleveland?" "You have a point," I said, and so we all went. My guess about Betty and Kaitlin seemed to be correct; they were snuggly enough, next to each other, and shared enough private jokes, that it was clear they must be a couple. Meanwhile, I was together with Natalia just by virtue of the booth we were squeezed into, and the fact that Natalia was big enough that we were pressed together. I don't mean that she was enormous, she was just— there's an old word you see in, say, Robert Heinlein stories that she seemed to bring back. Pneumatic. Inflated, and with the roundedness of a rubber tire. Ballooning breasts. Thighs that curved outward smoothly like fuselages. A rounded, cushy butt. I knew it was cushy because it was smooshed up against me. We had a pleasant time but at some point I realized they were making the assumption that we were together. And for whatever reason it seemed important to me that I clarify that. Like it would be wronging Melissa to leave that out there, I guess. I finally had a chance to explain that we had just met at the conference and were just friends— and then I realized that no one was waiting for any such explanation, and that by making it, I had needlessly insulted Natalia. The dinner finished up quickly after that. I tried calling Melissa when I got back and didn't get an answer. The next morning I got a text saying she had gone to bed early and heard the phone, but didn't feel like answering. * * * I went to the movie I'd planned to see the day before. I walked around downtown. Sunday was incredibly boring and seemed to last forever. I went back to the hotel room and jacked off. I played video games on my phone for three hours. In the middle of one game the phone buzzed. It took me a minute to remember what it was, then I saw it was Melissa. I fumbled to answer quickly. "I am so glad you called. It is so boring here, hotels should come up with activities for weekend guests just to keep the suicide rate in the hotel down," I joked. She didn't laugh. "How has your week been going," I asked. "It's been very... stressful." "What? Tell me about it." "No, it's just what happens when you have a lot of responsibility thrust on you," she said. "I still have a lot of work to do this weekend." "Well, lucky I'm not there, then," I said, a bit pointedly. She missed the point. "Yeah, that worked out well, actually," she said. "You get back Friday night?" "Yeah, about 8:00." "I should be back by then," she said. I hope so, I thought. Because I don't exactly know where you are right now. * * * Lonely, restless, my hand in my underwear in the dark. I tried to think of Melissa, but it wasn't working to replay good moments, because I kept realizing that most of them were a long ways back. My thoughts turned to Betty and Kaitlin. I tried to imagine them making out, soft lips mashing together, tongues teasing, sucking at tits, moving down and lustily licking at pussy... tits, I imagined the softness of breasts, nuzzling against them, but too small, too flat... I imagined bigger tits, big round boobs, heavy, sweaty, nubby nipples hard and jutting out as I sucked on them and reached between thick legs and felt wetness, slipperiness... I came, and jumped up to clean up and put such thoughts out of my head. * * * At least Monday and Tuesday we got into the sessions that mattered most for my work, and I got something out of the conference for a couple of days. I barely saw her. Natalia I mean, not Melissa. Our schedules didn't match up and I had dinner with some sales guys from our company on Monday night. On Tuesday night I went to a reception thrown by MarketStreet, which she was also invited to. I didn't know if the reaction to seeing me was going to be cool, but if what had happened Friday night had pissed her off, by now it seemed forgotten and we fell right back into snarking on everybody and laughing. It felt good after my lousy mopey vampire weekend. "Hey, what are you doing tomorrow morning?" Natalia asked. "Uhhh... sitting in a hotel room meeting room looking at Powerpoint slides, same as you. Unless someone blows it up. Do you have any explosives?" "I was reading that Cleveland has a market on Wednesday morning. I mean, like a European market with guys selling fish and fruit and jars of weird jam and shit." "Wow, you really know how to have a good time," I said. "Is there a hardware store somewhere too?" "Okay, go to Advanced Principles of MySQL Defragging Part 3 if you want. But if you want to walk over there with me, I'll be in the lobby at 9:30." * * * The market was actually kind of fun. I didn't need a crate of the same oranges you can get anywhere, but it was kind of cool to see guys outside hawking them to... whoever needed a crate of oranges. Inside the market, which was an amazing building like an old train station, there were meat sellers and cheese sellers and people making touristy stuff like fudge, people selling pierogis (basically, Hungarian ravioli) in a million different flavors and all kinds of stuff. It was interesting, but more than that, it was pleasant being in her company because she was so lively and interested in it all. We wound up getting hot dogs for lunch at a little stand in one of the corner entrances and then sat to eat them outside in the adjacent park. "This was really fun," I said. "Of course, after ten days here I'd be thrilled to watch a dryer spin at a laundromat." "Well, you sure know how to make a girl feel appreciated," she said. "Okay, seriously, thank you, it was great to get out and do something. I really do appreciate it. And you for getting me out of my rut." "You don't seem the happiest camper at the Conference," she said. "Oh, it's just... okay, no, I'm not. I call my girlfriend back in Colorado Springs and— I don't know. One of us is doing just fine with being separated for two weeks, let's put it that way." "Oh." We sat there for a moment, glumly nibbling on fudge. Has anyone ever written that phrase before? "Glumly nibbling on fudge"? It seems a fundamental failure on fudge's part. "Do you think she's seeing somebody?" Natalia asked. "I don't know. Do I think she's distracted from me? Do I think there are more exciting people to her than me at her work right now? Maybe. Who knows? Define seeing." "Do you think she's fucking somebody?" Natalia asked. That jolted me a little. But I guess my self-pitying non-answer deserved bluntness. "I think that would represent more interest in fucking than I've observed lately," I finally answered. "Okay," she said. We didn't look at each other for a minute. "So how's your love life?" I blurted out. "Sorry, you don't have to answer that. Do you have a boyfriend? Or a girlfriend? Fuck, I don't know anything about you. I've been too busy with the fascinating story of me to ask, I guess." "Neither one," she said. "Not for over a year. It's kind of hard meeting somebody with my background." I looked at her. "What's your background?" "Half Mexican, half Lebanese and fat-positive computer geek. Something for every guy to be culturally alienated from! I'm too smart for the guys I grew up with and tech guys get freaked out that I come from a family full of guys who drive low riders. Like, you know, make one move on me and there'll be some guy named Ramon with a hairnet in your face with a switchblade. Or Al-Qaeda." "That is so totally what I was thinking when I met you," I said. "No, that's like an entire novel, it would have taken me weeks to think all that about you." We sat for a minute, still nibbling, and I said, "Aren't you ever lonely?" "That's why man invented electronics," she said. "Well, probably woman." "I've done plenty of that this last week without technology," I said. "And that's all I need to know," she said. "Do I wish there was a guy around to kill spiders and tell me I'm beautiful and shit sometimes? Yeah, of course I do." "Right. I don't want Melissa to go. But maybe that's why she wants to, I just want it to be comfortable with her hanging around and that's not enough. But it's lonely without her. It's lonely being here for two weeks without knowing if she's there to come home to." "Or knowing there's nobody to come home to," she said. "I'm sorry, listen to me and you've got it worse—" "Oh, that makes me feel better!" "I don't mean it like that," I said. "Look, I don't know how to say it without putting my foot in it." "It's okay, I know what you mean," she said. She seemed to know what I meant a lot of the time, frankly. That was a new feeling, or an old one coming back after a long absence. "It is lonely," she said tenderly. "And sometimes you get so horny." "Yes," was all I could say to that. * * * "Listen, your mom called, you should talk to her some time." "The person I wanted to talk to some time was you, honey," I said. There was silence. "What?" "Oh, it's— look, I think we need to talk when you get back." "We are talking." "I mean, we should have a talk." Uh-oh. You never want to have a talk with someone you're still planning on sleeping with in the future. "What does that mean?" "Look— uggghhhh," she exhaled in disgust. "I didn't want to do this. But I think we need to cool things a little. I think we need to think about what we want." I thought of several snappy answers to this (a girlfriend, a blowjob, Melissa from a year ago to come back) and none of them seemed like they would do anything but bury me deeper in the shit. The only sensible response to a question like that from a woman is to shut up and listen. "What do you want?" "I just think we need to step back. And think about what we want." Yeah, it seems pretty clear what that is for her, I thought. It's called "Not you any more." * * * I tossed and turned. I looked at tits on the internet (there are several places offering them these days) but nothing seemed to turn me on. I debated and told myself no and finally I just did it. I texted Natalia: are u awake A couple of minutes passed and then: yes 2) uh-oh here it comes That seemed worrisome. I texted back what does? It came back a moment later: you are in a relationship. maybe not for long but still. don't want to do something to that just bec were both lonely and horny Okay, I'm not going to say the idea hadn't occurred to me. Not that short round Latino was exactly my type, especially judging by Melissa who was taller than me and certainly blonder. But that really wasn't the idea. not what i'm looking for. i want to use you for something much more selfish: sympathy She sent back: did something happen? I replied: just a phone call that left me feeling low. really, i'd love to talk with you. that was talk, not other four letter word ending in k. will you join me in a raid on my minibar, my company will treat There was no response and I figured after a few minutes she had blown me off, but then there was a light knock at the door. I let her in and gave her first choice; she picked a Carlsberg, I grabbed a Sierra Nevada, and she sat at my table with her thick legs up on the bed, while I lay on it sideways. "I hope I didn't interrupt anything," I said. "Well, to be honest, it was..." she pointed at her crotch and went "bzzzz-bzzzz." I was kind of shocked, I must admit. She had gotten awfully forthright about this stuff awfully quickly. "You're actually blushing," she said. "That's adorable." "I'm not used to talking about that. I admit it." "After our conversation today, it was kind of on the mind," she said. "Sorry if I got in the way," I said. "You may have been there in a certain sense anyway," she said, smirking. "Okay, now I just can't handle that," I said, sitting up. "I appreciate the thought, but—" "Don't worry, it was all purely theoretical," she said. "I'm not doing something stupid on the last night of a conference. You need to go home to that girlfriend and give it to her hard when you get there, and then maybe the two of you can start working it out together. And I will fire up the magic wand and do what I always do." "Okay," I said. "I don't mean to keep you from it." "Oh, I'm in no hurry," she said. "Though I did have an idea about how we could help each other out." * * * "I don't know if I can do this," I said as I lay on the floor on one side of the bed. "Haven't you ever had phone sex?" she said from the floor on the other side of the bed. "No!" I said. "I don't mean calling some sex line, I mean talking with your girlfriend, didn't you ever do that?" "Um, yeah, last year here." "Okay, then you get the idea. We can both come, but we didn't do anything we'll regret." "Okay, although I feel like the biggest perv on the world." "Oh, I'm sure you're not the biggest," she said, and I heard a button switch on and a little vibrating sound come from the other side. "So what do you think about, when you... do it? Do you see Melissa?" "Sometimes," I said, as I tried to stroke myself up to a full boner. "What's she doing to you?" "Um... so we're kissing, and I'm feeling her boobs," I said. "Are you licking them?" "Yeah, I'm, uh, sucking on her tits." "Smashing your face in between them?" "Um, well, they aren't really big enough to do that," I said. "What's she doing to you?" "She's kind of rubbing my crotch. A little." "Are you rubbing her pussy?" "Uh, eventually." "And she takes your cock, and she's rubbing your hard cock, and you're fingering her pussy, and then you take your fingers, and you rub some of her juice on her tits and suck on her tits, tasting her pussy... and she's stroking your cock, and she's so wet, and you slip your fingers inside her, and she rides your hand, and then she pulls it out of her pussy and puts it in her mouth, and the two of you lick her juices from her hand..."
 She was buzzing furiously now and I was jacking like crazy. This was so hot, and so far beyond anything I had done with Melissa lately, it made me realize that in some ways, she wasn't the only one who had gotten comfortable, gotten bored. She went on like this for a few more moments, and then I heard her moaning and coming on the other side, and I wasn't thinking about Melissa at all but Natalia, her short little fingers deep in her pussy, her big tits heaving as she made herself come, her belly shaking, her thick thighs thrusting up and down. That was happening just a few feet away, and I couldn't do anything about it. I just couldn't. Developers Conference * * * Cleveland was overcast as we left the conference center for the airport. We both had to fly as far as Denver before I went on to Colorado Springs and she switched planes for Seattle. Though we weren't on the same flight; she was on an American flight that left around 5, I was on Delta leaving around 6:30. On the ride over she tried to buck me up a little about going back to Melissa. I promised to do what she said-- fuck her hard and then work on getting out of our comfort zones and back to the excitement of when we were happy with each other. I made like I had more hope for this plan that I really did. We wished each other a good trip; we promised to stay in touch, you know, like if there were any work opportunities that might be a good fit. We began to distance ourselves from each other, to act like everything had just been casual. We hadn't done anything, after all. Just friends. Distant friends in other cities who know each other through work. When we got to the airport... well, sometimes you just walk into a place and you know it's bad news. When we checked in they told us that weather all around the country had everything messed up. My flight was still scheduled for 6:30, but hers was pushed back to 7. Her connection was pushed back too, so it wasn't hopeless, yet. Twenty minutes later my flight was pushed back to 8:00. As we sat around the airport, talking a little but mostly just staring into space, things got steadily worse. The sky turned a dirty gray, occasionally lit by lightning. People watched the board, groaning as their flights were pushed back or cancelled. They yelled at ticket agents, as if they'd caused the weather. After we'd been there for nearly four hours, my flight was cancelled outright. I scrambled to book onto another but by this time there had been so many cancellations that the first thing I could get onto was the next day at 1 p.m. They gave me a hotel voucher for the Sheraton and I made the call to tell Melissa I wouldn't be back. I got her voicemail. A moment later Natalia came back wheeling her suitcase and clutching a familiar piece of paper. "Canceled?" I asked. "Yeah. I'm booked tomorrow at 4. They gave me a voucher for the Sheraton." "Same here," I said. She looked tired; it was time for me to show a little good cheer. "C'mon, we'll ride over together and leave this dump behind." We wheeled our stuff out to the shuttle bus. It was still early evening but it felt like midnight as we drove through black rain to the hotel. We spent twenty minutes in line and I did my best to put on a cheerful face for her. "Relax, get a good night's sleep, and we'll have better luck tomorrow. They can't keep us in Cleveland forever," I said, and smiled at her. She smiled back, and the sun came out for a second. We got to the front and held out our vouchers. "Two rooms, please." The clerk grimaced without looking up at his screen. "We're really tight on rooms because of this weather," the clerk said. "If you two are together, it would really help us get everybody--" She took her voucher back. "One room would be fine," she said. * * * I smiled at her in the elevator. She smiled at me. I didn't assume anything. I only hoped. We went in the room and I waited for her to set her stuff down by one of the beds before I chose the other. She grabbed her smaller bag and went into the bathroom. I opened mine up to find my toiletries. She opened the door to the bathroom. She was standing there in a sheer negligee under which I could make out the shape of her big round tits, her soft belly and the panties which barely hid a mound of thick black fur. "Get over here, boyfriend," she said. I went to her and lifting her glasses off her face, kissed her. It was wonderful, her soft lips sent a jolt through me. I felt at home at once as our lips mashed together and her tongue darted against mine. I reached around her and grabbed her ample butt. It was so soft and curvy, I felt rejuvenated just holding it. She pushed me back against the bed and we fell onto it, her on top of me, her huge breasts dangling against me. She rubbed her crotch against mine and smiled at what she felt hardening there. She unbuttoned my shirt and licked at my nipples. Then I rolled her over and started to pull her negligee up. She slipped it over her head quickly, revealing her massive tits as they rolled to each side. I grabbed them and smashed my face between them, then began to suck on her nipples, rolling them about in my hands. There was something so giving about so much flesh, a kind of generosity I hadn't felt in bed in a long time. I wanted to devour all of her. I had never particularly been attracted to chubby women before but now I wanted to be with every part of her flesh, to savor the pleasure of rolling about in such abundance. I kissed my way down her big soft belly to that patch of black fur and slipped her panties off. Spreading those thick legs apart, I dove in, licking her lips open and sticking my tongue deeply into the steamy wetness inside. I licked the clit she had been rubbing last night as her ass squirmed against the bed and my face. She pulled me up to her face and she licked her own pussy juice from my lips as she unbuckled my belt. She took my cock out and stroked it as my pants fell to my ankles. Then she pushed her legs up and apart, and pulled my hard cock toward her pussy. I slipped into her pussy instantly and she groaned with pleasure. It was an entirely different thing from fucking a thinner girl like Melissa; I was up in the air on her belly, and as my cock went in and out all of her shook with my thrusts. Her breasts bounced up and down, her legs clamped around me, her feet caressed my face. She was lost in the moment of fucking. It didn't take long for me to come in her. I needed to come like that, but at the same time I was disappointed to be done so quickly. She didn't seem to mind, and as I pulled out she began rubbing her pussy. I was excited to watch her do what I had imagined, but at the same time, it seemed wrong to make her do that when I was there. So I did something I had never done before and went right back to going down on her. I felt my cum ooze out of her onto my tongue but I didn't care; I wanted to lavish all the attention I could on that pussy. As I did she gently rubbed her clit just above me, and then I pushed her big ass up and began licking at her asshole, too. I fucked it with my tongue as my arms cradled her big ass; it was nothing like going down on Melissa, Natalia's was an ass of such bounteous abundance that I could lose my whole self in it. After I had gotten her entire crack so wet, I rubbed a finger against her hole and it seemed to suck it in. I went back to licking her pussy while I started fucking her ass with my finger and she rubbed her clit, and in a moment I felt and heard her orgasm as she shook and her asshole twitched around my finger. We lay there for a while, simply embracing, me stroking her, discovering new pleasures of a fat body-- the feeling of weight in my hands, the little soft places I didn't expect like along the sides under her arms. Her body had so much to give. She had given me so much in these days, and I had been a poor recipient in many ways, I thought. But there would be time enough to make up for that, I thought. I got out my phone and began to text a message. "What, you have to go run and tell Melissa first thing you get some?" she said, mockingly. I turned and planted a kiss on her chest, between those two wonderful, abundant breasts. "The only thing I'm telling Melissa is not to expect me back," I said. "I have exciting plans. For a weekend, in Cleveland."