Fifty Shades of Single Origin Hell (Part 2 of 13)
Erotic chick-on-choc action in the style of E.L James
By Winterbottom Foodeater
They were on my table, unwrapped. In my dreams, it was like eating a Snickers bar, but better. I didn't quite know how to express it, but it was more wholesome, more elevating. The deep, thick milk chocolate coating a barely contained layer of silky, chewy nougat, caramel, and crunchy roasted peanuts. It was almost too much for me to bear. I picked the bar up and turned it around in my hands, admiring the contours and weight of it, before I lifted it to my lips and--
A knock rapped at the door, urgently, interrupting me from my thoughts. Who could that be? I wasn't expecting any guests. My dear, wonderful father lived a few states away, fishing and grunting in his endearing, monosyllabic way after mom died last year. And as an internet famous, notoriously funny food blogger, my company was spent with only my cats and my computer as companionship.
I opened the door to find Chocolove, the pretzel candy bar I'd been lusting over for the last few weeks! Oh my god...they looked so lost, so vulnerable, the chocolate coating slightly melting in the sun. I just wanted to hug it like I hugged and cuddled my best gay friends.(AN: Love you Zack and Ross! Let's get married tomorrow.)
"Chocolove...what are you doing here?" I put my hands on my hips to convey the impression that maybe I was a little mad, but I mainly wasn't, because seeing Chocolove in a place like this was so awe-inspiring, so beautiful, so jaw-dropping. It was like seeing a Monet in a gas station bathroom.
"I came to tell you that I...I..." Chocolove, so normally composed and brilliant, always handy with a note or love poem, was at a loss for words. "I love you, Jessica Jasmine Isabella Marysue Hershey Omnipotent McProm-Wedding!" For a moment, I paused, struggling to comprehend the gravity of those eleven incredible words. America's most eligible, romantic, wealthy, pretzel-studded bachelor loved...me!? But we couldn't be any more different! I, the lowly food blogger, and Chocolove...a household name!
It was almost too much to bear, so I stopped thinking and started doing, my inner goddess cheering and grinding against my temporal lobe, and I let Chocolove enrobe me. "Chocolove, your pretzel pieces are rock-hard!" Chocolove murmured against my ear, "And they're salted, too." I groaned and took another bite. The pieces, so small and yet, so infused with the salinity and crunch of tinny pretzels, were melting within me, overpowered by the sweet, sweet chocolate.
"Jessica...you shouldn't," Chocolove said, pulling away with a tortured glance. "I'm no good for you." I gasped. "Chocolove, don't say that...I've seen the articles and the reviews. You're made with premium beans- you're even certified kosher by the Scroll K Kashruth! You're completely free of GMO's! Please, don't say that...I love you, too." My lips shuddering and my stomach growling- damn it, I needed Chocolove now to satisfy my hunger, I moved closer, caressing the delicately embossed milk chocolate as we...
"Am I interrupting something?" Chocolove and I tore apart, breaking off like pieces of a Kit-Kat and turned to face my neighbor, Zoe's Pretzel Bar. Zoe and I had been neighbors in the apartment complex for years, and I'd always sensed a tantric connection, a chemistry, between us. Life was so hard! Wasn't there anyone around here who didn't want me to eat them!? YOLO, I thought to myself sadly, YOLO. Chocolove backed away, the milk chocolate darkening at least 15% as they left in the elevator.
"I have to go," I tore myself from my computer, pausing the episode of Grey's Anatomy I'd been watching. "Chocolove, no!" But it was too late, and I could see the doors shut on the bronze-wrapped demigod I had loved for so long, too late, but too sweet for my affections. I turned to Zoe, or P, as I called them. "P, you shouldn't have done that," I said. P came toward me, dark chocolate up front and bold in my face.
"Don't you see? I had to. That Chocolove is no good. Jessica, you could do better. I'm artisanal. I'm sophisticated. I locally source my pretzels." P's aromatic dark chocolate glistened in the sun as they lowered their voice. "Do you know how Chocolove gets those pretzels?" Smiling, they turned toward me. "I'm more cost-effective and I'm wrapped in an aesthetically pleasing, brown paper casing." I took another look at P, realizing that its dark chocolate was alluring. It did have more pretzels per bite than Chocolove, and a slightly saltier, much darker flavor, an exotic flair hinting of smoke and lavender wrapped up in its imported dark chocolate. Turning once back to see Chocolove leave, I gazed into the dark soul of P, realizing that I never really did like Robert Browning's poetry anyway, and my lips fell open in arousal as I licked the chocolate slowly, but surely. P was the winner, sure as I was of anything in my life, including my love of romance novels and baby squirrels.
"Come," said P, "I can show you things far darker than that," and we turned, entering the apartment to explore places heretofore unknown, and I knew my 120 days of chocolate were to commence...
To be continued...
Labels: 10, 7, chocolate, dessert, snack, snackdown
