HUMOR

I Begged Him Not to Shake It

But he did

Claire Franky
5 min readApr 18, 2024

--

Photo by Hans Reniers on Unsplash

I stared into his deep brown eyes as we stood at opposite ends of the room, waiting for each other to make the first move.

“It’s time,” I said calmly.

He didn’t reply but continued to study me. Risking everything, I took a step forward. Then another. All I could think about was his next move. And mine. I was going to be in charge today.

“Let’s go,” I commanded, pointing to the bathroom.

He took a step backward.

Cowardly little fuck.

“I’m not going to play games with you. Off you go,” I ordered in my sternest voice while pointing to the bathroom once more.

Instead, he charged straight for me and tried to slide through my legs. Adrenaline took over as I wrapped my arms around his body and tumbled to the floor with him.

He kicked and thrashed around, trying to escape but my hand gripped his collar.

“Sammy!” I yelled. “No!”

Sammy, my dog, licked my face in an attempt to kill me with the smell of his breath.

It almost worked.

I moved to a crouching position and wrapped my arms around his barrel of a body, then pulled up. Nothing happened. Sammy…

--

--