~THAT SMELL~

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"Talooooo - laa. wake up!" Taloola's big green eyes snapped open. Her eyebrows came together in puzzlement. "That smell again" she murmured sleepily. She laid there trying to discern this peculiar, mesmerizing smell. Her eyes close. she dreams. the smell is stronger. it coalesces and spirals into her. Taloola immediately arches her back, "uhnnh", becomes wide awake, and sits up.
"I think I just had a wet dream!"
"What did you say?" her roomate called out.
"I said... nevermind. Lizzy do you smell that"
She walked into Taloola's room and sniffed "smell what?"
"That incredible smell. I cant describe it. Don't you smell it?"
"I don't smell anything but your funky breath." Lizzy stated and walked back to her own room.
Taloola went thru her morning ritual trying to figure out what happened to her. And that smell. It was so.... spicy? So good. She dressed in her red Norma Kamali wrap dress, black patent pumps, finger combed her bright red hair, and grabbed her portfolio and trench on her way out. She decided to walk the half mile to her office/studio. Even though it was a cloudy day she was feeling good about her self. Her good mood spilled from the sweet smile she carried on her lovely and peaceful face. The smell, not totally forgotten, but pushed back for a time as she went about the business of her day.
"Yessir Mr. Mason I have that right here for you..." Taloola amazed even herself as she showed Mason her interior designs for his twelve room home. She was astounded when after she described what she would like to do to his twelve rooms, he said "This is perfect. All of it. Were do I sign? Now she was sitting in the bosses office amidst applause, pats on the back, and kudos beause she single handedly aced the two hundred thousand dollar contract. Taloola took a minute to get away from the crowd and the noise so she could quietly take in just what had happened. She spoke fluidly and looked this man straight in the eye and convinced him that he could not live without her design for his home.
"I've never done anything like that. i was so good in there! I could do no wrong!" she said to herself "What happened to me in there?"
"I happened to you" the faintest of whispers. a hint of that smell. Something made Taloola look out of her window, there, across the street ...gone...


Suppertime couldn't come fast enough. " Lizzy I'm telling you, all day things were going my way! The office loves me! We needed that contract so badly. Joseph was a no show! He NEVER does that! no one knows what happened to him because they all expected him to be the one Mason would want, but when he didnt show up, I showed him my own stuff and he loved it!
"Lizzy said nothing. She just stared at Taloola in awe.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" She handed Taloola a mirror"Oh... my..." Taloola's face was radiant. Her eyes glistened. Golden flecks swimming in vibrant green. her skin was flawless. her lips full, swollen and very pink. Her cheeks had a becoming blush to them."You look like you just had the best orgasm of your life"
Male laughter, deep, lyrical... gone
"Did you hear that?"
"Dont start that again Taloola. This morning it was a smell and now..."
"I know what I smelled and heard Lizzie!" Taloola was starting to feel concern.. She ran to the window and saw a tall shape striding, no, gliding! away. By the time she ran to the door and out to the street, he was of course, gone. She came back inside and sat.
"Are you going to tell me you didnt see a man looking in the window?"
"I didn't Looie. I'm going to make you some tea. You lay down and rest"


"Looie. It suits you You will be Looie"
She came awake instantly, her eyes searching the room in the waning light. "Lizzie? Lizzie are you here? did you say something?" But there was no answer. Taloola was alone in the apartment. She shook it off . "must've been dreaming again" She went into the kitchen and there she saw a note that Lizzie left for her on the refrigerator.
Looie, I tried to wake you up but you were dead to the world. The most amzing thing happened while you were asleep. I won tix to The Lion king when i called in on the radio! I was tenth caller! I caught the train downtown to pick them up at the station. I 'll be back in a few hours. Love ya., Lizzie
She opened the refrigerator door to get the pitcher of lemonade. When she reached into the cupboard for a glass the smell assailed her senses. She couldn't take it. The heavenly smell wrapped itself round her body and cushioned her fall to the floor. someone picked her up and placed her back on her feet. She thought she dropped the pitcher of lemonade but somehow it was on the table sitting next to the glass from the cupboard.
"Open your eyes Looie" that voice. deep. lyrical. that smell...
"Open them" That smell. inside her. laying claim to her...
Looie opened her eyes and focused on him
"My Goodness you're the most beautiful thing I've ever seen!"
The beautiful man in front of her laughed his glorious laugh and opened his arms to her "Sweet Looie. You are mine. You are for me and I have come for you" His cloak slipped from his shoulders. The smell held her. Enthralled, she watched as he held open his robes. An appendage wound sinuously towards her sniffed at her. And another, wound itself under her dress and touched at her, tasted her skin. She watched as his skin began to gleam, his eyes were begining to glisten.
"Come Looie" She moved closer to him and he wrapped her in his cloak with him. The smell coalesced , shimmered, to pick them up, swirling around, and they were ... gone.