COMPASSION

Chapter 22

Infatuation

Joe is driving home giddy as a schoolboy laughing and playing his Billy Idol tape. His favorite song ROCK THE CRADLE OF LOVE is playing. “ God what a girl. She is beautiful and she had her hands all over my face. Oh no...I forgot to see if she had a wedding ring on. I hope she is not married? You can not take your eyes off her she is so beautiful. She wears her hair in a ponytail she is so pretty. Wow I can’t wait to tell the guys in work about her.”  Joe pulls into the driveway and enters the house.
 
He sees Tommy cleaning the bathroom and heads upstairs to change his clothes. He comes back down to the TV room and turns on the TV. Tommy enters the room.
 
Tommy asks? “Where did you go?”
 
“I told you I had a dentist appointment. They have a new girl and she did a great job cleaning my teeth. I really like her,”  Joe tells his brother.
 
Tommy has lived with Joe for thirty eight years. He has had many relationships with women and thinks he knows all about women. He has never heard his brother ever say he liked any girl.
 
He mockingly starts to laugh at his brother, “Oh so you like girls now.” 
 
“Yes I really like her,”  Joe replies.
 
“What is her name?”
 
 “Sandy.”

 “Is she pretty?” Tommy asks.
 
“She is Drop Dead Gorgeous!” Joe shouts with joy.
 
“If she is as pretty as you say those girls work in the Doctor’s Office to marry a Doctor. You must be as stupid as I think you are if you think you have any chance with a girl like that. Are you a Fucking Doctor? What would a girl like that want with a fat slob like you?”
 
Joe silently watches TV because there is nothing his brother could say to destroy this new feeling of euphoria Sandy has given Joe. He shuts off the TV and heads to his bedroom and puts his Billy idol tape in the player and grabs his Playboy magazine from under his bed and starts looking at the Blond Centerfold Miss March and starts fantasizing about Sandy. He imagines the girl in the magazine is Sandy smiling at him.
 
Tommy open Joe’s bedroom without knocking, “What did I tell you about those magazines! I do not want that filth in my house!” He closes the door and goes back downstairs to finish cleaning the bathroom.
 
Joe kisses the girl in the magazine and goes to bed to hopefully to dream of his beloved Sandy.
 
Its Monday morning and Joe is at work talking with Dennis about his weekend.
 
“Dennis you should see the girl at the Dental Office. She is Drop dead Gorgeous.”
 
“She is a looker. Is she married?”  Dennis asks.
 
I did not look to see if she had a ring on. I am going to see her again this Saturday for the first of four part deep cleaning.”
  
Dennis takes a sip of his coffee, “ You should ask her out.”
 
 “I would love to play tennis with her. She is great to talk to.”  Joe goes on with his work but finds he is constantly thinking of Sandy. Finally the week goes by and Joe gets up early to clean the bathroom before he leaves for his dental appointment. This week Joe is more focused and can’t wait to see Sandy again. 
 
He arrives early for his appointment and sees Sandy walking in the hall. She waves to her patient and Joe can’t wait for the cleaning to start. She is wearing a navy blue uniform . Her hair is again in a ponytail. Sandy comes out to greet Joe and he obediently follows her  back to the dental chair. The doctor gives Joe a needle and Sandy waits to begin her cleaning.
 
“Boy you really are strong for a girl. Do you work out?”  Joe asks.
 
“Yes three times a week for two hours a day. I do a lot of weight lifting to keep my arms strong. Is your mouth numb yet?”
 
“Yes.” 
 
“Okay let’s get started.”  Sandy starts the deep cleaning procedure. Dr. Parmo and Catherine Havard arrive late and take their places in the corner of the room. Sandy is half way through her first session and decides to take a break.
 
She pulls her dental mask off and asks Joe, “Are you in any pain?”
 
“No not at all,”  Joe replies. Joe hears inside his head a voice telling him to say to Sandy she is very attractive. He silently say no to himself but when he looks at Sandy again he blurts out, “ You are very attractive.”
  
She turns to her patient and a huge smile appears on her face. Now Sandy and Lamia know they own Joe’s mind and soul. She finishes her  cleaning and leaves the room then returns with a dental gift bag for Joe.
 
Sandy lays the bag on the counter and tells Joe, “I have a new special brush I want you to start using. I also included tooth picks that will help you clean between your teeth.”  Sandy continues to instruct Joe but all he can do is look at her beautiful face and nod his head to everything she tells him. Her magnetic force over Joe is incredibly powerful. “ I will see you next Saturday for your
second cleaning.”
 
Joe tells Sandy as they are walking to the appointment desk, “I really appreciate you making a special effort to do the cleaning.”
 
Sandy replies, “Yes the cleaning will help but you must remember to do your home maintenance cleaning as I explained to you.”
 
 “Yes I will Sandy.”
 
Joe is driving home from the dental office more determined than ever to come up with some kind of plan to get Sandy interested in him. His mind wanders back to a conversation he had with his Mother on a typical Friday night where he just returned home with a pizza to share with Mom.
 
The two sit quietly watching the TV eating pizza when Mom challenges her son by saying, “You need to come up with something big. You should invent something and make a lot of money then I won’t have to worry about money ever again.” 
 
“What should I invent?”  Joe asks.
 
Mom replies, “You are the smartest of all my sons. You have the time. Figure it out.”  
 
Joe arrives home and parks his car at home and decides to take a walk searching his brain for any new ideas to invent something. He comes home two hours later and is exhausted and walks upstairs to his bedroom.
 
Tommy yells up to Joe, “Why are you getting home so late?
 
You were supposed to come straight home after the dentist!”
 
Joe ignores his brother and goes to bed when he starts dreaming of Sandy. She is literally right on top of him face to face staring at him. He is startled by the dream and wakes suddenly and looks around and sees it is only three o’clock in the afternoon. He quickly falls asleep again and now he has a strange new bizarre dream where he sees his Mother in their old home sitting at a kitchen table with a man in a black suit. Both are drinking a cup of tea when his Mother turns to him as says, “ Do not get fixed up!”
 
Joe again awakens suddenly and shakes his head. “That was a weird dream. It was so vivid and real.” Joe gets out of bed and gets dressed and goes downstairs to watch TV so he does not dream anymore today. He turns on the TV and tries to find something to watch but the two dreams have disturbed him deeply and he can not concentrate on the TV. In frustration he starts talking to the TV and tells it, “I could write a better movie than the ones you are playing for me.
 
That’s it...I should invent a story about Mom and how hard she worked, how she raised her three children alone and how worthless and ungrateful the three little blood sucking vampires drained the life out of her  and then she died. I should tell everyone how her rotten sons slept while our Mother died watching TV with no one to help her. What a great story that would make. I should tell everyone how Ma made her last Christmas meal and Mike and Donna came two hours late because they were out Christmas Eve celebrating. I could tell how Tommy started yelling at Mike for being late and Ma crying and begging me to take her out of the house to go for a ride and get away from the fighting.”
 
Joe goes into the kitchen and pours himself a small glass of whiskey from Tommy’s bottle and announces his plan to the kitchen. “Refrigerator, stove, cabinets I have my plan. I will ask Sandy if she wants to join me to write a screenplay about my Mother.”
 
Another week of works goes by and Joe is in the waiting room when Sandy approaches him this time wearing a bright yellow top and tan pants. He follows her back to the chair for his second session of
deep gum tissue cleaning. He stares at both her glove covered hands but does not see and sign of a ring under her gloves.
  
Sandy asks her patient, “Would you like me to put on some music?” 
 
Joe replies, “ Yes thank you.”
 
“What music do you like?” Sandy asks.
 
“I like Billy Idol.”
 
Sandy shakes her head, “He is for kids. He is a he a punk rocker?”
 
“Yes but he has a great voice and tremendous drive in his songs.”
 
“Well I only have Jazz tapes. Let’s get started. Open up.”  Sandy again starts cleaning at a feverish pace. She scales, probes, picks and scrapes her patients teeth. After twelve minutes of intense
cleaning she stops for a break and leans against the counter. She pulls her dental mask down to expose her remarkable face. Joe is ready to tell her his plan. “I thought the two of us could meet sometime to start writing a screenplay.”  
 
Sandy stares at Joe and is taken back by the suggestion of the two of them getting together and tells him, “Do you know how hard that is to do. My cousin wrote a play and has been trying to get it on Broadway for ten years!”
 
Joe replies, “You are being negative.”
 
Sandy leaves the room and enters the supply closet to think for a minute. Lamia suggests to her to remove her gloves and keep her mask off for the remainder of the cleaning. She return to her patient and follows the instructions from Lamia. She takes her gloves off in front of her patient and removes her mask and roughly grabs Joe’s face with her hand and starts to punish her patient trying to inflict pain on him. The more intense she gets the more excited Joe gets.
 
He enjoyed the pain which Lamia created and gave to him.  The rough cleaning session lasted another ten minutes and Sandy and Joe climaxed emotionally and were exhausted.
 
“”Spit!” Sandy demanded of her patient. “ Rinse your mouth out!”
 
Joe did as he was commanded to and rested his head on the chair.
 
“How do you feel?”  Sandy asked.
 
“Very good.”
 
“You will be sore tomorrow. I will not be able to see you for two weeks so I will not see you again until a week from next Saturday.” 
 
“Joe leaves the dental office asking himself, “Why did she remove her gloves and mask?” Joe is starting to realize he cannot stop thinking about Sandy. She is constantly on his mind. His main obsession food is now being replaced by the beautiful blonde with the ponytail.